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OKAW VALLEY -- Effingham St. Anthony tallied a 46-40 victory over Okaw Valley in girls high school basketball action Monday evening ... Brummer 0-1 -- 1, Bierman 1-0 -- 2, Hall 0-0 -- 0. TOTALS 10 FG, 5 FT. Brownstown/St. Elmo established the early lead at 19-5 in the opening quarter and that was the game as BSE won 61-28 in National Trail ...

ROBINSON -- Effingham St. Anthony finished seventh at the Robinson Girls Basketball Thanksgiving Invitational ... TOTALS 22 FG, 26 FT. Brownstown/St. Elmo competed in the Pana Tournament and finshed fourth with a 52-45 loss to Williamsville in the third ...

The Green Wave beat Okaw Valley 70-33, Christ Our Rock Lutheran 56-25 and Brownstown/St. Elmo 57-39 ... Avery Still/Emily White, Sullivan girls' basketball, 5-10 senior/5-11 junior Sullivan ...

NEWTON -- Altamont and Newton claimed victories at the Bob Kerans Girls Basketball Tournament Monday evening ... Webster 8-2 -- 20. TOTALS 26 FG, 18 FT. Brownstown/St. Elmo came calling and picked up a National Trail Conference win over Windsor/Stewardson-Strasburg Monday. BSE edged out to a 16-13 opening quarter lead and led 28-26 at halftime.

SALEM -- Teutopolis High School captured two victories but suffered a loss in the 19th Annual Salem Girls Thanksgiving Basketball Tournament during ... TOTAL 16 FG, 8 FT. Brownstown/St. Elmo competed in the Pana Thanksgiving Tournament during the weekend.

TOLEDO – Cumberland has nine players on the girls' basketball team this year, with no seniors and two juniors ... The other losses were to Edwards County (47-30) and Brownstown/St. Elmo (52-33). Mitchell is the top scorer on the team, with an average of 12 points per game, while Brown and Carr are next at 7.5 and 7.3, respectively. "

Next week is Thanksgiving and there's a ton of boys and girls basketball tournaments that will be contested ... Williamsville, 6 p.m. Game 2 -- Brownstown/St. Elmo vs. Pana, 7:30 p.m. At Junior HIgh School Game 3 -- Athens vs. Centralia CORL, 6 p.m. Game 4 -- Mattoon vs. Okaw Valley, 7:30 p.m. Game 5 -- Okaw Valley vs. Athens, 10 a.m. Game ...

TOLEDO -- Brownstown/St. Elmo High School opened the 2019-20 girls basketball season with a 53-32 victory over Cumberland Monday evening. The Eagles stepped out to a 16-4 opening quarter lead behind Campbell's eight points and led 27-18 at halftime.

We want to be competitive on a daily basis and appreciate the game of basketball. Hopefully, we will get better as the year goes. Altamont and Brownstown/St. Elmo, we play early and those two are probably two of the best teams we play. Cowden-Herrick/Beecher City will be solid also."