NUIC players finish up prep professions at Jim Shaw All-Star

Area boys and girls basketball players from the Northwest Upstate Illini Conference completed in their high school uniforms one last time at the Jim Shaw All-Star Basketball Classic on Sunday at Eastland High School.

Contending players had to remain in the WCCI-listening location and be an all-conference member. The event is sponsored by the Northwest Illinois Sports Hall of Fame.In the boys game, Eastland’s Adam Awender earned one of the most Belongings Player honor after scoring 33 points to assist the South group beat North 93-64. Awender struck nine 3-pointers, including 6 in the third quarter. The group was coached by Eastland’s Tyler Zumdahl.

Milledgeville’s Micah Toms-Smith scored 11 points, Brendan Greenfield had seven, Peyton Spears had 13 and West Carroll’s Tyler McGinnis had 3. Lena-Winslow’s Michael Mowery scored 12 and Pearl City’s Tyler Clark had 8. Invitees that were not able to play consisted of Morrison’s Colton Bielema and Fulton’s Braeden Brennan and Jacob Huisenga.

Reaching double figures for the North All-Stars were East Dubuque’s Bradin Lee (11) and River Ridge’s Damon Dittmar (14) and Joseph Winter Season (15 ).

In the women game, the North team won 63-50 behind an MVP efficiency from River Ridge-Scales Mound’s Laiken Haas, who scored 29 points. West Carroll’s Caitlyn Stingley scored eight points in the second half and Domynique Lego scored two.Morrison’s Camryn

Veltrop led the South team with 20 points. Eastland’s Olivia Klinefelter had 8 points and Fulton’s Kylie Smither added eight.Milledgeville’s Kendra Hutchison had four points. Pearl City’s Fallyn Endress scored four and Kendra Kuhlemeier had six. Area girls welcomed but not able to play were Morrison’s Kaylee Pruis, West Carroll’s Emma Randecker and Forreston’s Jayleigh Newill. Morrison senior Camryn Veltrop(Drake Lansman )