This past Friday & Saturday; The Missouri State West Plains Grizzlies played in The John A. Logan Classic Shootout on The Campus of John A. Logan College in Centerville College in Carterville, IL.
Friday afternoon, The Grizzlies faced The Shawnee Community College Saints from Ullin, IL as they took their first loss of the season. Although they led The Saints by a Score of 35-31; Coach Dillon Hargrove observed that offensive rebounding was a weakness in the back end of the Second Half as well as Five Minutes of Overtime play. The Shawnee Saints got the win by a Final of 95-94.
Coach Dillon Hargrove-GRIZZLY POST GAME 11-6
Game Audio (Grizzlies vs. Saints-11-6)
Saturday Afternoon; The Grizzlies faced the shootout host team, John A. Logan College Volunteers. A very similar matchup as yesterday even though Grizzlies trailed the Volunteers by two points, 39-37 at The Half. Grizzlies did much bettter on offensive rebounding and taking the ball to the basket as they won the ballgame by a Final of 95-92
Coach Dillon Hargrove-GRIZZLY POST GAME 11-7
Game Audio (Grizzlies vs. Volunteers-11-7)
Coach Hargrove also urged the City of West Plains to come out to The John Paul Evans Arena @ The West Plains Civic Center on TONIGHT (Tuesday, November 10th) as The Grizzlies will host Lakeland College in their second game with The Matoon, IL ball-club after they took home a 105-68 victory over the lakers back on Friday October 30th. This will be CAMO Night at The Civic Center.
If you can’t make it to the game in person; Catch the Broadcast on your home of Grizzly Baseketball 102.5 Hot Country KDY or watch The Livestream on the Hot Country KDY & Ozark Radio News Facebook Pages.
