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Prep roundup: BOW girls hoops rescheduled
The Banks of the Wabash girls high school basketball tournament has revised its schedule as a result of Rockville’s football team competing in a regional game Friday night.
Games originally scheduled Friday will now be played on Thursday at Turkey Run, with the third-place and championship games on Saturday as originally scheduled.
Admission is $5 each day.
Banks of the Wabash Tournament
At Turkey Run
Thursday
5 p.m. — Rockville JV vs. Riverton Parke JV
6:30 — Rockville vs. Riverton Parke
8 — North Vermillion vs. Turkey Run
Saturday
5 p.m. — Thursday’s JV winner vs. Turkey Run JV
6:30 — Varsity third-place game
8 — Varsity championship
In girls basketball Monday:
• Linton 54, Monrovia 47, OT — At Linton, the Miners were forced to come from behind almost the entire game and even in overtime, but finally pulled away at the foul line in the season opener for both teams.
Savannah Mason had 18 points and Megan Barnes, after first-half foul difficulty, added 10 for the Miners. Dillon scored a game-high 19 for the visitors before fouling out.
MONROVIA (47) — Engel 1 0-0 2, Dillon 7 3-6 19, Porter 2 3-8 7, Standeford 3 0-4 6, Rednour 1 3-5 6, Kaber 0 0-0 0, Knieper 2 0-0 5, Spear 1 0-0 2, Hunter 0 0-0 0. Totals 17 FG, 9-23 FT, 47 TP.
LINTON (54) — Beard 2 5-9 9, Mason 6 5-6 18, Carpenter 2 0-0 4, Wells 2 1-3 5, Barnes 3 4-6 10, Alsman 0 0-0 0, Riggleman 1 0-0 2, Astleford 0 0-0 0, Daluga 1 4-6 6, Kurtz 0 0-0 0, Tibbett 0 0-0 0. Totals 17 FG, 19-30 FT, 54 TP.
Monrovia 17 8 6 11 5 — 47
Linton 5 16 5 16 12 — 54
3-point goals — Dillon 2, Rednour, Knieper, Mason. Total fouls — Monrovia 23, Linton 21. Fouled out — Dillon, Standeford, Knieper, Beard.
JV — Linton won.
Next — Linton (1-0) has a home game Thursday against North Knox. Monrovia is 0-1.
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