Local High School Basketball Scoreboard-Thursday, January 10

Boys...
Washington Tournament-Consolation Semifinals...
St. Charles beat St. Clair 58-50. Adam Brott scored 15 for the Bulldogs. Casey Teson drained 17 for St. Charles. St. Clair dropped to 3-8 and the Pirates improved to 11-5.
In the other game, Borgia trailed Fort Zumwalt East by ten in the second quarter then came back to outscore the Lions 40-16 in the second half to win the game 64-43. Jordan Miller paced Borgia with 14. Joseph Helfrich scored 13 and Zachary Schweissguth added 11. The Knights improve to 7-6 and Zumwalt East dipped to 4-8.

Girls...
Union Tournament-Consolation Semifinals...
Union jumped on Madison Prep 72-12 with Alyssa Coons pumping in 16 points. Rachel Bassett pumped in 15 and needs just five points to reach one thousand for her high school career.
Washington held on for a 51-48 win over Eureka. Kaitlin Evans hit the game winning shot with less than two seconds left. She finished with seven for the game. Courtney Kedroski led the way with 20 and Paige Carpenter added 13.

South Callaway Tournament-Championship Semifinals...
Hermann downed Russelville 68-44
New Haven defeated North Callaway 52-49. Rachel Steinhoff scored 17 for the Lady Shamrocks with Emily Kallmeyer adding 13.

Elsewhere....

Pacific rallied to beat Cuba 49-45

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

4 days 16 hours ago

The KLPW Radio Athlete of the Week is Seth Schenck. The New Haven Junior won the state title in the the 800 meter run at Lincoln University in Jefferson City. His time of 1:59.20 set a new school record. Seth also took second in the 1600 meter run with a time of 4:30.49 and anchored the 4X800 relay team that captured seventh place. Seth also played basketball and ran cross country in his junior year at New Haven.

OFF THE CUFF with Diane Jones

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Undoubtedly, the capture of Boston marathon bombing "Suspect #2"--as named by law enforcement--has quickly brought the issue of Islamic terrorism to the forefront.

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SPORTS CORNER

17 hours 5 min ago

Union High School has hired a new girls basketball coach. Dusty Weiskopf is a graduate of Sullivan High School and University of Missouri-St. Louis. He replaces Grant Young who left Union to take the boys basketball coaching job at Washington High. His teaching duties include Health and PE. This past season, Weiskopf was an assistant coach at Waynesville High School, under Coach Chris Pilz.