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Huntley High Girls, Boys Basketball: Winning!
Girls varsity moves into a tie for first place, and boys just keep on winning!
The Huntley High School Athletics Booster Club reports scores and highlights from all of the Red Raiders athletic teams on its website.
The ABC site reports the Raiders boys and girls varsity basketball teams were victorious this past weekend.
The girls team pulled off an important victory on Saturday by defeating Cary-Grove by a score of 46-35, the booster site states. The win moves the girls into a first place tie in the Valley Division with Cary-Grove, who was previously unbeaten in the Valley.
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“Huntley held the Trojans to just 15 second-half points and out shot Cary-Grove at the line 26 to 10, making 16 free throws,” the report states. “Huntley was led by Sam Andrews who poured in 17 points while Abbey Shaw scored 14 points.”
The Red Raiders girls are now 11-6 overall, and 5-1 in the Valley Division.
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Boys Varsity Basketball
Friday the 13th brought nothing but good luck to the Huntley boys varsity basketball team. The team gave Prairie Ridge a Red Raiders stompin’ with a 63-29 home victory, the ABC site reports.
The win improves Huntley’s record to 14-1 and 3-0 in the Valley Division.
Congratulations Coach Manning!
The Raiders team was without its head coach Marty Manning who was at the hospital with wife, Kristan, delivering their second son. The couple named the baby Marcus William, the website reports.
More of the website game follow-up:
“The game got off to a slow start with Huntley leading just 12-6 at the end of the first quarter. Amanze Egekeze brought some life back to the building when he stole the ball and took it down for a one-handed dunk in the second quarter.
Huntley exploded offensively in the third period and extended its lead to 46-20 at the end of three quarters. The big lead allowed the coaches to get every player into the game in the fourth quarter which brought loud cheers from Raider Nation!
Troy Miller led the Raiders with 16 points, and Amanze Egekeze finished with 15. Bryce Only added 7 points, and Mason Wicks came off the bench to also score 7. Jake Brock added 6, Ryan Craig 4, Jake Wagner 3, Kevin Melaniphy 2, Justin Frederick 2 and Ryan Lussow 1 point.”
Go Raiders!
For the latest updates on Huntley High Sports, go to the athletic booster club website and click on January 2012 Scores and Highlights.
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