{"id":1343,"date":"2025-01-28T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thexradio3.com\/news\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2025-01-28T07:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T13:11:41","slug":"neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Neoga Wins NTC Boys Basketball Tourney Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>ALTAMONT &#8212; The 89th Annual National Trail Conference Boys Basketball Tournament opened play Monday evening at Altamont High School with a play-in game heard on 979XFM.<\/p>\n<p>Neoga edged Cowden-Herrick\/Beecher City, 33-29 in defensive battle.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth-seeded Neoga took a 6-2 opening quarter lead behind two three-pointers, one each from Landon Titus and Luke Keller. The lone CHBC basket came from Remington Howell.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams scored eight points in the second period as Neoga held a 14-10 halftime lead. Brayden Ray went on a run for the Indians, hitting four of six from the field for all eight points.<\/p>\n<p>CHBC&#8217;s Clive Schlanser and AJ Radloff put in two baskets each for the No. 8 seeded team.<\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats came back in the third quarter with an 11-7 run to tie the score at 21-21. August Cosart connected on two baskets while Howell put in an old-fashioned three-point play with a regular basket and a free throw.<\/p>\n<p>Neoga&#8217;s Grady Haarman hit a three-pointer in the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>But Neoga got back on track with a 12-8 final quarter for the four-point win. Titus hit another three-pointer while Luke Keller connected on a basket and was two of two at the line. Gavin Ray put in a bucket and a free throw and Cayden Hakman scored on two of two at the line for his only points in the contest when the Indians needed them.<\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats finished with eight in the quarter on a basket each by Cosart and Griffin Vaughn and a basket and two free throws from Schlanser.<\/p>\n<p>Neither team had a player in double figures. Leading Neoga was Keller with nine points on three field goals and two of two at the line.<\/p>\n<p>CHBC was led by Schlanser with three of five field goals and two of three at the line for eight.<\/p>\n<p>Neoga advances now to meet top-seeded Effingham St. Anthony today at 6:15 p.m. The second game of the evening will have fourth-seeded North Clay against fifth-seeded Windsor\/Stewardson-Strasrburg.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NTC Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Game One<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEOGA (33)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hakman 0-2 &#8212; 2, Haarman 1-0 &#8212; 3, Titus 2-0 &#8212; 6, B. Ray 4-0 &#8212; 8, Keller 3-2 &#8212; 9, Young 1-0 &#8212; 2, G. Ray 1-1 &#8212; 3. TOTALS 12 FG, 5 FT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHBC (29)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cosart 3-0 &#8212; 6, Vaughn 2-0 &#8212; 4, Radloff 2-0 &#8212; 4, Schlanser 3-2 &#8212; 8, Lilly 1-0 &#8212; 2, Howell 2-1 &#8212; 5, Askins 0-0 &#8212; 0. TOTALS 13 FG, 3 FT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neoga&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 6&nbsp; &nbsp; 8&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 7&nbsp; &nbsp; 12&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8212;&nbsp; &nbsp; 33<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHBC&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2&nbsp; &nbsp; 8&nbsp; &nbsp; 11&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 8&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8212;&nbsp; &nbsp; 29<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3-point FG &#8212; Neoga 4 (Titus 2, Keller 1, Haarman 1), Cowden-Herrick\/Beecher City 0.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALTAMONT &#8212; The 89th Annual National Trail Conference Boys Basketball Tournament opened play Monday evening at Altamont High School with a play-in game heard on 979XFM. Neoga edged Cowden-Herrick\/Beecher City, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Neoga Wins NTC Boys Basketball Tourney Opener - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Neoga Wins NTC Boys Basketball Tourney Opener - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-28T13:02:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-28T13:11:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Millie Lange\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Millie Lange\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/basketball\\\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/basketball\\\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Millie Lange\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2\"},\"headline\":\"Neoga Wins NTC Boys Basketball Tourney Opener\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-28T13:02:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-28T13:11:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/basketball\\\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":449,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Basketball\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/basketball\\\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/basketball\\\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\\\/\",\"name\":\"Neoga Wins NTC Boys Basketball Tourney Opener - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-28T13:02:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-28T13:11:41+00:00\",\"description\":\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/basketball\\\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/basketball\\\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/basketball\\\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Neoga Wins NTC Boys Basketball Tourney Opener\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/premier-logo-v1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/premier-logo-v1.png\",\"width\":272,\"height\":69,\"caption\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2\",\"name\":\"Millie Lange\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/millie-lange\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Neoga Wins NTC Boys Basketball Tourney Opener - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Neoga Wins NTC Boys Basketball Tourney Opener - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","og_description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/","og_site_name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","article_published_time":"2025-01-28T13:02:08+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-01-28T13:11:41+00:00","author":"Millie Lange","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Millie Lange","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/"},"author":{"name":"Millie Lange","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2"},"headline":"Neoga Wins NTC Boys Basketball Tourney Opener","datePublished":"2025-01-28T13:02:08+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-28T13:11:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/"},"wordCount":449,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization"},"articleSection":["Basketball"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/","name":"Neoga Wins NTC Boys Basketball Tourney Opener - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-01-28T13:02:08+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-28T13:11:41+00:00","description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/1343-neoga-wins-ntc-boys-basketball-tourney-opener\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Neoga Wins NTC Boys Basketball Tourney Opener"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/","name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/premier-logo-v1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/premier-logo-v1.png","width":272,"height":69,"caption":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2","name":"Millie Lange","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/author\/millie-lange\/"}]}},"modified_by":"Millie Lange","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}