The Christmas holiday season brings us an abundance of gifts and cheer, but is also brings us a bevy of basketball tournaments for the high school hoops glutton.

Much of the holiday tournament action will get underway after Christmas Day, but there will be some action getting started on Saturday at MICDS and Visitation.

Here are some of the dates for the upcoming holiday tournaments:

 

Normandy (Dec. 26-29) – Top Four Seeds: 1. Soldan, 2. Chicago Marshall, 3. Normandy, 4. Hazelwood East. Championship Game, Saturday, Dec. 29, 5:30 p.m.

Meramec (Dec. 26-30) – Top Four Seeds: 1. CBC, 2. Hazelwood Central, 3. DeSmet, 4. Washington. Championship Game, Sunday, Dec. 30, 7 p.m.

MICDS (Dec. 22-30) – Top Four Seeds: 1. Ladue, 2. SLUH, 3. Westmister, 4. Duchesne. Championship Game, Saturday, Dec. 30, 7:30 p.m.

Collinsville (Dec. 27-29) – Top Four Seeds: 1. Belleville East, 2. Chatham-Glenwood, 3. Springfield Southeast, 4. Lincoln (Ill.). Championship Game, Saturday, Dec. 29, 8 p.m.

Visitation Girls (Dec. 22-28): Top Four Seeds: 1. Visitation, 2. St. Joseph’s, 3. Blue Springs, 4. Nerinx Hall. Championship Game, Friday, Dec. 28, 8:45 p.m.

Mascoutah Girls (Dec. 27-29): Teams to Watch: Nashville, Belleville East, Althoff, Breese Central, Belleville West. Championship Game, Saturday, Dec. 29, 7 p.m.

 

Props to Ramey

Congratulations to Terrell Ramey and his staff at Rameybasketball.com for putting on another successful Midwest Showdown Shootout event last weekend at Lindenwood University in St. Charles. There was some pretty exciting action at the event, led by victories from local teams Maplewood and Madision Prep. Maplewood scored a huge 48-43 victory over a powerful Memphis East team in the nightcap. Senior guard Kahlid Hagens scored a game-high 29 points to lead the Blue Devils.

Madison Prep clobbered Rahleigh-Egypt (TN) as the dymanic duo of Kevin Baker and Martavian Payne combined to score 45 points. The Bears are now 7-0 on the season. Baker scored a game-high 23 points while Payne added 22 points.

 

Record 40 points

The top individual performance of the day came from Fort Zumwalt North junior guard Chaz Glotta, who scored a event-record 40 points to lead the Panthers to a 79-62 victory over Riverview Gardens.

 

Game of the day

The top game of the day came between Cahokia and Evansville Bosse. The visitors from Indiana scored a thrilling 73-72 victory on a last-second dunk by junior All-American point guard JaQuan Lyle. Senior guard Keenan Minor led the Comanches with 31 points.

 

All-time leading scorer

Congratulations for Edwardsville girls star Emmonnie Henderson on becoming the school’s all-time leading scorer. Henderson recently passed the mark, which was held by former Tigers’ standout Kim Jackson in a victory over Belleville East. Henderson has signed to play at the University of Louisville.

 

North County Tech champs

Congratulations to North County Tech on winning the championship of the Lutheran-St. Charles Tournament. North Tech defeated host Lutheran-St. Charles 63-30 in the championship game. Ni’Sean Rigmaiden was the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament. It was the first tournament win for the school in more than 30 years. North Tech is led by head coach Don Boyce.

 

College front

On the college front, former O’Fallon High standout Roosevelt Jones had 16 points, 12 rebounds, seven assists and two blocks to lead Butler to an 88-86 upset over No. 1 Indiana last Saturday in Indianapolis.

 

 (You can catch Earl Austin Jr’s daily basketball reports on his website, www.earlaustinjr.com. You can also follow Earl on twitter.com/earlaustinjr).

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