Saturday Sports: Sherrard Unable To Recover From Slow Start, Falls To West Hancock

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Sherrard (13-2) had an 11-game winning streak snapped in a 57-47 loss to West Hancock (12-3) at the Carl Sandburg College Shootout in Galesburg Saturday.

The Tigers scored the game’s first basket to go ahead 2-0, but that was Sherrard’s only lead of the afternoon. West Hancock led 15-4 at the end of the first quarter and 31-14 at halftime. The Titans led by as many as 24 points twice in the third quarter, 40-16 and 42-18. Sherrard closed the period on a 13-3 run to make it 45-31 going into the fourth. The Tigers cut the deficit to as little as eight in the fourth quarter but never got closer than that.

Rylan Carton scored 19 points in the loss for Sherrard.

Cooper Knowles led the Titans with 19 points. Lewis Siegfried added 15 in the victory.

 

BOYS BASKETBALL

Carl Sandburg College Shootout

West Hancock 57 Sherrard 47

Monmouth-Roseville 65 Olympia 52

Illini Central 54 United 49

West Central 63 Hartsburg-Emden 52

Rock Falls Shootout 

Erie-Prophetstown 30 Mercer County 25

Oregon 64 Bureau Valley 63 (OT)

Kewanee 69 Winnebago 61

Rockford Christian 71 Newman 51

Princeton 60 Rock Falls 52

 

Macomb 54 Abingdon-Avon 42

IVC 77 Knoxville 23

 

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Monmouth-Roseville 78 West Central 33

Riverdale 54 Princeton 43

Hall 48 Bureau Valley 21

 

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