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Sports Editor Matt Daniels with a look at what’s going on around the area:
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The Unity-Monticello boys’ basketball game on Tuesday night in Tolono will raise funds for the Keeter family as Brendan Keeter fights cancer.
Three reasons we love sports today
➜ 1. Monticello rallying behind one of its own. Brenda Keeter, who has worked for 27 years in the Monticello Superintendent’s office and is often managing the admissions table at Monticello sporting events, is fighting multiple myeloma cancer and plasma cell leukemia. The Sages have two boys’ basketball games this week, and proceeds from both go to the Keeter family.
➜ 2. Monticello plays at Unity at 7 p.m. Tuesday — Brenda’s husband, Ron, has worked at Unity Junior High for 21 years — and then hosts Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin at 7 p.m. Friday.
➜ 3. Unity will hold a 50/50 raffle and will donate all admission proceeds to the Keeters. The same holds true for Friday night’s game in Monticello.
Miles Woolsey and the Mahomet-Seymour boys’ basketball team is riding a five-game win streak after ending Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin’s undefeated season on Saturday night.
Numbers game: 0
undefeated area high school boys’ basketball teams left entering the final week of the regular season. Mahomet-Seymour made sure of that, defeating previously unbeaten Bismarck-Henning/Rossville-Alvin 67-58 on Saturday night at the Watchfire Signs Shootout in Danville. Miles Woolsey led the Bulldogs with 23 points as they won their fifth straight to improve to 14-11. BHRA, meanwhile, is now 28-1.
Salt Fork senior guard Alexa Jamison, left, will have defenses focused on her when the Storm opens up its Class 1A postseason stay on Monday night in Georgetown.
Crowd control
Three events I’m paying attention to
➜ 1. Salt Fork at Georgetown-Ridge Farm girls’ basketball. The host and sixth-seeded Buffaloes (15-12) will try to pull the upset of the top-seeded Storm (27-2) in a Class 1A regional semifinal game at 6 p.m. Monday.
➜ 2. Sullivan vs. Unity girls’ basketball. Third-seeded Sullivan (27-3) will try to keep it rolling against sixth-seeded Unity (14-16) at 7:30 p.m. Monday in a Class 2A Maroa-Forsyth Regional semifinal game.
➜ 3. St. Thomas More at St. Joseph-Ogden girls’ basketball. The third-seeded Spartans (11-16) welcome in the upset-minded 12th-seeded Sabers (5-23) at 7:30 p.m. Monday in a Class 2A regional semifinal game.
Iroquois West girls’ track and field coach Jim Price.
Coach’s corner
Three questions with Iroquois West girls’ track and field coach Jim Price:
➜ 1. My favorite sports team is … the Oregon Ducks.
➜ 2. Three coaches I’d like to have dinner with are … Jim Harbaugh, Chip Kelly and Bill Belichick.
➜ 3. My biggest pet peeve is … when an athlete has talent, but only puts in half-effort at practice or is constantly trying to get out of reps.