The St Louis Cardinals 7th grade basketball team travelled to Aurora last night to play the host team St. Lawrence winning 35-23.
The Cardinals came out shooting well with Kurt Seifert leading the way. Siefert drained two three point shots in the first quarter helping to give the St. Louis a 17-4 lead at the end of the quarter. Jack Aplanalp continued the good shooting in the 2nd quarter by knocking down a three point shot of his own and the Cardinals went into half up 24-7. St. Lawrence picked up their defense in the second half allowing the Cardinals only 11 points but still could not get the score within single digits and St. Louis ended up winning by the score of 35-23.
The Cardinals had several players make it to the scoring column as Jack Aplanalp had 3, Kurt Siefert 11, Wil Freeland 3, Riley Schebler 4, Andrew Oesterling 6, Lleyton Ratcliffe 6 and Sam Voegele had 2. On defense, the Cardinals were led by Tyler Kuntz, Ben Schebler and Sam Voegele as they displayed great hustle and toughness on the court.
St Louis has two more games this week. On Tuesday December 15th they host South Dearborn at 6:00 and on Thursday the Cardinals travel to play South Ripley with 6:00 tip-off.
Courtesy of Cardinals Coach Jim Oesterling.