Varsity Girls Basketball - January 19

St. Thomas More 66 - SVC Tournament: 2A #18: Watseka 38

St. Thomas More secure it’s 6^th Sangamon Valley Conference Tournament Championship in 9 years in the league by defeating 2A #18 Watseka 66-38 at Parkland College tonight. Despite Watseka’s best efforts to stall & slow the game down in the first half STM was still able to eclipse their 65 points per game average. The Wallen sisters led the way 33 points & 14 rebounds combined (Lexi 21 & 6 / Erica 12 & 8). This marked Mennig’s 200^th game on the sidelines for STM (549^th overall), he is 6 for 7 in the SVC tournament. Watseka was led by Devin Curry with 13 points who was held scoreless in the 1^st half.

STM (22-2) will face Salt Fork at home on Tuesday night in non-conference play.

TV Link - http://www.wicd15.com/sports/features/headlines/stories/wicd_vid_388.shtml

TV Link II - http://illinoishomepage.net/fulltext?nxd_id=454812

Newspaper Link - http://www.news-gazette.com/multimedia/photogallery/2013-01-19/stm-66-vs-watseka-38-girls-basketball-2013

Newspaper Link II - http://www.news-gazette.com/sports/prep-sports/boys-basketball/2013-01-19/saturdays-prep-highlights-hudson-lifts-purple-riders.h

SVC Tournament: 2A #18: Watseka –– January 19
Player	G	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	Pts	P/G	Ast	Ast/G	O.Reb	D.Reb	T.Reb	R/G	TO	TO/G	Blk	Stl	S/G	Chg	Foul
Game Totals											0						0