Eli Fox (Archived photo)
Gillespie High School will be well represented this Sunday at the 14th annual Carlinville Rotary Club/Country Financial All-Star Basketball Classic where 54 senior boys and girls basketball players will meet at Carlinville High School for some friendly postseason competition.
Admission is $6 with children 10 and under admitted free. A girls 3-point shootout starts Sunday’s event at 4 p.m. followed by the girls game at 4:30. The boys 3-point shootout is tentatively scheduled for 6:15 with the boys game starting at 6:45. A slam-dunk contest will be held at halftime of the boys game.
BOYS GAME
Gillespie boys’ head coach Casey Sholtis has the honor of coaching the West team with three familiar faces on his roster – Eli Fox, Evan Price and Colin Tieman. Joining the Gillespie trio on the West team are Joe Bates and Xavier Dunlap of Carlinville; Luke Gillingham and Cole Brannan of Carrollton; Blake Marks of East Alton-Wood River; Austin Bishop and Connor Shade of Greenfield; Zac Ridenour and Drake Kanallakan of Jerseyville; Chase Bushnell of North Greene; Trace Gentry of Roxana; and Zack Seymour of Southwestern.
The representatives of Gillespie and the West team will face the East All-Stars who will be coached by Litchfield’s Drew Logan. The East team’s lineup includes David Holden of Greenville; Bryan Graham and A.J. Thomas of Raymond Lincolnwood; Conner Simmons, Cooper Scharf and Josh Franke of Litchfield; Brennan White and Cooper Etter of North Mac; Garrett Gillette and Jordan Hampton of Pawnee; and Corey Scroggins and Austin Gusewelle of Staunton.
GIRLS GAME
GHS is also represented in the girls division with Bailey Jarman and Jessica Robbins suiting up for the West All-Stars who are going to be coached by Southwestern’s Steve Wooley. Joining Jarman and Robbins are Marley Schmidt of Carlinville; Elizabeth Hall of Greenfield; Lydia Wall and Sydney Wyatt of South County; Karlie Green, Maddy Greeling, Erin Laubscher and Kelsey Rhodes of Southwestern; and Darci Brannan, Destyne Powell and Makendra Jennings of White Hall North Greene.
The girls East All-Stars are coached by Litchfield’s Rob Corso and include Emma Brown of Auburn; Brianna Wade, Briana VanKleef and Madison Funneman of Greenville; Lindsey Storm, Maddy Reck and Carly Cameron of Hillsboro; Anna Thomack, Abby Frerichs and Helen Vargo of Litchfield; Karmyn Cox, Autumn Boliard and Abbi Ruppert of Nokomis; and Reaghan Vaughn of Pana.
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