St. Louis Cardinals 7th grade team and the Jac-Cen-Del Eagles paired up again in the second round of the SEI tournament played at South Dearborn Middle School on Tuesday night and it turned out to be a hard fought close game — just as expected 41-39 win in Overtime.
The game started with the Cardinals taking a 7-0 lead but the Eagles quickly got on track and were able to tie the score by the end of the quarter 9-9. The 2nd quarter saw the Cardinals outscoring the Eagles by just two points so the 1st half ended with St. Louis leading by the score of 15-13.
The game remained closed in the 3rd quarter with Cardinals leading by the narrow margin of 24-23. In the 4th quarter, it looked like St. Louis was going to pull away but with less than 2 minutes to go and the Cardinals up by four points, JCD applied some great defense creating turnovers against St. Louis and allowed the Eagles to come back and tie the game at 32-32. The Eagles had a chance to win the game in regulation as they had the ball with 15 seconds but missed a shot from long range and sent the game into overtime.
In overtime, St. Louis got a big basket from Will Freeland right off the tip to put the Cardinals up 2. Then St. Louis got a big bucket from Andrew Oesterling along with a three point play by Sam Voegele in the overtime period. The Eagles kept the game close with their defense but came up a little short as Cardinals were able to come away with a two point victory 41-39.
The scoring consisted of Freeland with 6, Riley Schebler 4, Oesterling 9, Lleyton Ratcliffe 6, and Voegele showed up big with 16 points. Jac-Cen-Del was led by TJ Menchhofer with 17, Wil Neal 8, Landon Turner 4, Cameron Gehl 5, Damon Hughes 2, Jarrod Dufrene 2 and Christian Comer had 1.
The Cardinals move on the championship game against South Ripley to be played at the Batesville Middle School on Thursday. The game time is 5:30.
Courtesy of Cardinals Coach Jim Oesterling.
The St. Louis 8th grade boys basketball team were unable to sustain the momentum from their first round victory, suffering a loss in the semi finals of the SEI tournament to Greendale 35 to 23.
St. Louis and Greendale were tied at 8 after the first quarter, but It was all Greendale after that. St. Louis unable to find any offensive rhythm, were held scoreless in the 2nd quarter. The Cardinals made a brief charge in the third but Greendale answered the bell each time.
Zach Harmeyer played an excellent game on both ends of the court and finished with 5 points. Johnathan Deal added 5 points and Jacob Deutsch had 7 points. Charlie Dice and Adam Cox rounded out the scoring with 3 points each.
The 8th graders from St. Louis are now 10-12. They will host St. Nicholas Sunday Januarey 31st, game time 12:00 pm, for the right to play in the first round of the Indianapolis Archdiocesan Tournament held in Indianapolis on February 14th.
Courtesy of Cardinals Coach Mike Burkhart.