1/30/2009

Thursday, Jan. 29 Scores and Saturday, Jan. 31 Preview

Thursday Night Score:

Southwestern Illinois 77 @ Kaskaskia 54

Saturday Preview:

Southeastern Illinois, 19-0 (6-0) won by 9 no score available @ John A. Logan, 12-6 (4-2) 3:00PM

Rend Lake, 12-9 (2-5) 65 @ Lake Land, 13-6 (3-3) 72 7:30PM

Lincoln Trail, 4-14 (0-6) @ Wabash Valley, 13-6 (2-4) won by 10 no score available 7:30PM

Kaskaskia, 10-10 (2-5) 81 @ Olney Central, 13-7 (3-3) 84 7:30 PM

1/29/2009

Wednesday, January 28 CANCELLED

Matchups:
John A Logan, 12-6 (4-2) @ Wabash Valley, 13-6 (2-4)

Lake Land, 13-6 (3-3) @ Lincoln Trail, 4-14 (0-6)

Southwestern Illinois, 18-2 (6-1) @ Kaskaskia, 9-9 (2-4)

Olney Central, 13-7 (3-3) @ Southeastern Illinois, 19-0 (6-0)

Due to adverse weather conditions ALL of the Great Rivers Athletic Conference matchups have been postponed. The postponment dates have not all been set, but here is what I know as of now: JAL @ WVC (Monday, February 9), SWIC @ KC (Thursday, January 29), OCC @ SIC (Monday, February 9), and LLC @ LTC (??????????????).

I would like to take a moment to thank all of the people who have helped me make this website possible. You all know who you are. Thank you for the scores and the updates on cancellations and other news throughout the league.. As we approach the half way point in the conference season I feel the site has continued to grow and become better and more efficient with updating scores.. I hope you are all using the site frequently and checkin on game nights for scores.

Also I would like to say congratulations to Southeastern Illinois for holding strong at 2nd in the NJCAA.org national rankings. Congraulations also go out to the Blue Storm of Southwestern Illinois for jumping from 23 to the number 14 spot.. Don't forget to check out the National Rankings, linked on the sidebar, for other movements in the poll.

While I am here I will go ahead and post the matchups for Saturday, January 31:

Southeastern Illinois @ John A Logan

Rend Lake @ Lake Land

Lincoln Trail @ Wabash Valley

Kaskaskia @ Olney Central

1/24/2009

Saturday, January 24 Results

Saturday Matchups:

Southeastern Illinois 67 @ Lincoln Trail 63

Wabash Valley 91 @ Kaskaskia 78

Olney Central 78 @ Lake Land 88

Sunday Matchup:

Southwestern 66 @ Rend Lake 64

1/21/2009

Wednesday, January 21 Updates

John A Logan 76 @ Southwestern Illinois 82

Lincoln Trail 77 @ Olney Central 85

Wabash Valley 72 @ Southeastern Illinois 84

Kaskaskia 87 @ Rend Lake 83

Wednesday, January 21 Preview

After a rare Monday GRAC Night, the standings were shaken up a bit. The standings have been like a duck on water, very calm on top, but restless underneath that.. Southeastern Illinois still unbeaten sets atop and looks down at Southwestern and John A Logan sitting tied for second at 4-1. However these two battle tonight in Belleville to break open the tie. Sittin in fourth are the Blue Knights of Olney Central who are half a game ahead of a 2-way tie for fifth between the lake schools, Lakeland sits with a 12-6 overall record compared to Rend Lakes 12-7. Also locked in a 2-way tie are Wabash Valley and Kaskaskia. Lincoln Trail remains looking up, but have their harnesses locked and are ready to start creeping at anytime.

Wednesday night provides nothing less than excitment (as normal in the GRAC). A few key matchups arise throughout southern Illinois tonight as the end of the first round of matchups nears a close. Here are tonights matchups:

Kaskaskia, 8-8 (1-3) @ Rend Lake, 12-7 (2-3)

Wabash Valley, 12-5 (1-3) @ Southeastern Illinois, 17-0 (4-0)

Lincoln Trail, 4-12 (0-4) @ Olney Central, 12-6 (2-2)

Great Rivers Athletic Conference Game of the Night:

John A Logan, 12-5 (4-1) @ Southwestern Illinois, 16-2 (4-1)

Check back tonight for score updates as soon as I receive them. Good luck to all GRAC teams and enjoy your night off Lakers...

1/20/2009

Monday, January 19 Updates

Kaskaskia 86 @ John A Logan 96

Rend Lake 64 @ Lincoln Trail 56

Lake Land 57 @ Southwestern Illinois 67

Wabash Valley 71 @ Olney Central 77

1/18/2009

Saturday, January 17 Results

Olney Central 56 @ John A. Logan 87

Kaskaskia 78 @ Lake Land 83

Rend Lake 84 @ Wabash Valley 86

Southwestern 74 @ Southeastern 82

Non-Conference Action:

Lincoln Trail 59 @ Vincennes University 76

** Newspaper articles will be linked as soon as they are put onto the web.

1/16/2009

Saturday, January 17 Preview

Olney Central 11-5 (1-1) @ John A. Logan 10-5 (3-0) 3:00 PM

Kaskaskia 8-6 (1-1) @ Lake Land 10-5 (1-2) 7:00 PM
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2009/01/17/sports/doc4971653955b98195195598.txt

Rend Lake 11-6 (1-2) @ Wabash Valley 11-4 (0-2) 7:30 PM
http://www.tristate-media.com/articles/2009/01/16/mtcarmelregister/sports/sports5.txt

#23 Southwestern Illinois 15-1 (3-0) @ #2 Southeastern Illinois 16-0 (3-0) 7:30 PM

Non-Conference Action:

Lincoln Trail 4-10 (0-3) @ Vincennes University 12-4 6:00 PM

**All Times Central Standard Time

1/14/2009

Wednesday, January 14 Updates

Tonights Unofficial Results

John A. Logan 54 @ Rend Lake 58

Wabash Valley 83 @ Lake Land 92

Lincoln Trail @ Southwestern Illinois +30

Southeastern Illinois +12 @ Kaskaskia

I will provide final scores for the Trail/SWIC and the SIC/Kaskaskia game tomorrow morning when I can get them....

Wednesday, January 14 Preview

Tonights GRAC Matchups:

John A. Logan (2-0) @ Rend Lake (0-2)

Wabash Valley (0-1) @ Lake Land (0-2)

Lincoln Trail (0-2) @ Southwestern Illinois (2-0)

Southeastern Illinois (2-0) @ Kaskaskia (1-0)

**I will get the updates in as soon as I know Scores...

My First Post

First of all I would like to say thank you very much to Kyle for all the work he has put in to getting this website started. He did a wonderful job for what he had to work with and the cooperation he had. Between his setup of the site and the combined effort throughout the league I feel that this could turn into a site that is amazingly beneficial for the GRAC and Region 24. I will be making daily updates and keep the standings as current as possible. My goal is to keep scores updated as soon as I find them out on game nights throughout the season. I would also like to keep fans informed as to recruitment and signings of GRAC players.
I have been in contact with the majority of coaches in the GRAC and they have been nothing but enthusiastic of helping me in this endeavour. If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me or simply post comments on the site.

Clint Burris
E-Mail: grac_basketball@inbox.com

Great News

Coach Clint Burris of OCC is going to take over the website, and I bet will do a much better job than I have the time to do. Check back early and often as I am sure the site will improve each week.

Thanks Clint!

1/07/2009

Website shut-down

Due to lack of interest I am no longer going to update the website. I will leave all of the links up as I know it took a great deal of time organizing them and certainly they are useful to some people.

thanks to all of those that tried to help I was simply not given enough help to make this a 1-2 hour a day endeavor.

I will still check the e-mail until the end of the season in case anyone needs anything, wants to ask a question, or if someone wants to take over the website (not for profit mind you).

Thnks again,

Kyle Dishong