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St. John's Tigers basketball team won their first round game in Pratt's Tournament of Champions this Thursday, defeating Medicine Lodge 50-21, a game that had five Lady Tigers making at least one 3-pointer - seven three's in all (Jamie Waters 3, Tia Smith 1, Haley Falk 1, Morgan Osborne 1, and Teresa Wade 1).
St. John will be playing Wichita North's team at 8 pm. this Friday. North defeated Chaparral 79-32 and Wichita South earlier defeated Larned 36-22 in Thursday's other first round games.
In the TOC 3-point shooting competition, St. John's Teresa Wade made nine of her 15 three-point attempts. Jamie Waters made 5 of her 15 attemps. Wade also went 19-25 in the free throw contest and teammate Morgan Osborne went 17-25. The two contests will continue for the next two days until the winners are announced Saturday evening after the Championship game.
Other games of interest: Hutchinson Central Christian defeated Wichita's “Word of Life” 50-39. Jamie Patrick scored 36 for Central Christian. The Tigers will be playing “Word of Life” at home on Feb. 17th.
Spearville came from behind to nip South Central 48-47 in Dodge. South Central has now lost three games this year. They could wind up playing the Tigers for the substate championship.
For more area girls basketball, click on the “bloggs” button at the top of the page, then go to “Ragan's Roosts”.
