Shoes Headed Back to Class 2A Girls State Basketball Tourney

The Teutopolis Wooden Shoes are headed back to the Class 2A State Girls Basketball Tournament.

Teutopolis avenged an earlier loss and handed Breese Central its first defeat of the season, 49-44, to capture the Class 2A Salem Girls Basketball Super-Sectional Monday evening.  The game was heard on KJ Country 102.3 and www.kjcountry.com.

T-town ripped out to a 15-5 opening quarter lead as Madeline Hartke scored 10 of the Shoes' points. Breese Central got untracked in the second period for a slight 13-12 edge to pull within 27-18 at halftime. The Cougars continued with the momentum in the third quarter with a 17-11 run and brought the score down within three points, 38-35, heading into the final quarter.

Breese Central was within three with 9.9 seconds in the final quarter. But T-town got back on the scoring track with an 11-9 edge. T-town connected on seven free throws in the final period including two big ones by M. Hartke. Anna Hartke proved to be the big difference with two free throws in the quarter and a putback basket.

Madeline Hartke paced the Teutopolis attack with 22 points and pulled down six rebounds while Cierra Thompson chipped in with 12 points. Repking led in assists with four while A. Hartke pulled down eight rebounds.

Teutopolis will play in the semifinals Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Redbird Arena at Illinois State University in Bloomington. The Shoes, now 28-5, will play Champaign St. Thomas More who defeated Riverton 74-35.

In the other super-sectionals, Prophetstown defeated El Paso-Gridley 58-48 and Elmhurst IC Catholic edged South Holland Seton Academy 40-38. Prophetstown will take on Elmhurst IC Catholic at 8:15 p.m. Friday at state. The losers of Friday's games faceoff at 6:30 p.m. Saturday for third place while the winners will meet for the state championship at 8:15 p.m.

Here's ticket information for Teutopolis fans:

Tickets will be sold Tuesday in the Teutopolis High School office in this order--

9 a.m. -- tournament players and managers

9:15 a.m. -- non-tournament girls basketball players

9:30 a.m. -- boys basketball players

9:45 a.m. -- cheerleaders

10 a.m. -- Pomerettes

Lunch Hour -- students

1-3 p.m. -- staff members

4-5 p.m. -- general public

No admittance to the Teutopolis High School building until 3:45pm.

All tickets are $10 each.

All tickets are general admission at Redbird Arena.

Class 2A Salem Super-Sectional

TEUTOPOLIS (49)

Schumacher 1-2 -- 4, Repking 2-0 -- 4, C. Thompson 4-1 -- 12, Giles 1-0 -- 2, A. Hartke 1-3 -- 5, M. Hartke 9-4 -- 22. TOTALS 18 FG, 10 FT.

BREESE CENTRAL (44)

Kohrmann 5-3 -- 14, Rakers 2-1 -- 7, Strieker 0-0 -- 0, Timmermann 3-1 -- 7,  Rickhoff 2-0 -- 6, Bock 0-0 -- 0, Wilken 5-0 -- 10. TOTALS 17 FG, 5 FT.

Teutopolis                 15    12    11    11    --    49

Breese Central            5    13    17     9    --    44

3-point FG -- Teutopolis 3 (C. Thompson 3), Breese Central 5 (Kohrmann 1, Rakers 2, Rickhoff 2)