{"id":26453,"date":"2025-12-31T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=26453"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:57:34","slug":"26453","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/26453-26453\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys Basketball Christmas Classic Scores 12-31-2025"},"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><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Boys Basketball Effingham\/Teutopolis Christmas Classic<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Effingham Auxiliary Gym<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Central A&amp;M 51, Charleston 48<\/p>\n<p>Dixon 48, Pleasant Plains 36 (13th\/14th place)<\/p>\n<p>Effingham 61, Newton 57 (11th\/12th place)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Effingham Main Gym<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oregon 66, Belvidere 61 (7th\/8th place)<\/p>\n<p>St. Anthony 55, Lutheran North 51, (2OT) (5th\/6th place)<\/p>\n<p>Mattoon 81, Chicago Brooks 69, (consolation championship)<\/p>\n<p>Lawrenceville 74, Champaign Centennial 70 (third place)<\/p>\n<p>Teutopolis 37, Tolono Unity 36 (championship)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boys Basketball Effingham\/Teutopolis Christmas Classic Effingham Auxiliary Gym Central A&amp;M 51, Charleston 48 Dixon 48, Pleasant Plains 36 (13th\/14th place) Effingham 61, Newton 57 (11th\/12th place) Effingham Main Gym Oregon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[49],"class_list":["post-26453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","tag-sports-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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