Beecher graduate Abby Shepard has been a reliable bench player this season but she was absolutely on fire on Feb. 19.
The University of St. Francis junior guard hit a school-record 11 3-point baskets for 33 points and added eight rebounds and six assists to help the Saints to a mammoth 127-46 win over Calumet St.Joseph in a Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference battle at the Pat Sullivan Center in Joliet.
The Saints (21-6, 14-5 after the win) set the school record with 26 3-pointers but feel short of the program record for points in a game by one.
USF scored 48 second-quarter points as Shepard accounted for 12 points on four 3-point baskets.
After the record-breaking outburst, she was averaging 7.3 points, 2.8 rebounds and 0.8 assists.
Running up that Hill
Crete-Monee senior Joshua Hill won the triple jump and finished second in the long jump and was a part of the second-place 800-meter relay team at the Greg Foster Invitational indoor meet at Proviso West High School in Hillside.
Hill was named the MVP of the meet after a jump of 47 feet, 08.75 inches in the triple jump, racking up a 22-07.75 in the long jump and helping the relay team with a 1 minute, 37.32 second finish.
The Illinois Running News website said he was one of the strongest jumpers in the field and “definitely has the potential to joins Illinois’ potential all-staters this year.
Junior teammate Derrin Couch also picked up some notice from the website, saying he is “already accomplished more than the average runner” after last year’s two top-10 finishes in the state. He was seventh in the 300-meter hurdles and eighth in the 110 hurdles.
In girls track, Crete-Monee’s Tamryn Farmer took first in the 60 meter and second in the 200 meter at the Sharon Green Invitational at Rich Township High School.
All-Conference
Crete-Monee’s Jayden Preston, Zyheir Gardner and Jaylen Blakes were named to the Southland Athletic Conference boys basketball all-conference team.
In the Chicago Catholic League, KJ Morris of Brother Rice, a Crete resident, made the fifth team.
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