Illinois High School Basketball - Pleasant Plains edges Prairie Central
January 28, 2023: Pleasant Plains, IL 62677 The Pleasant Plains Cardinals (Pleasant Plains, IL) basketball nipped the visiting Prairie Central Hawks (Fairbury, IL), 43-42 in Saturday's non-league test.
The Cardinals (18-6) will now prepare for their test against Auburn (Auburn, IL). The Trojans go into the Sangamo test with a 14-14 record. In their last test, Auburn got by Monticello (Monticello, IL), 47-30, in a non-league test.
The Hawks now own a 17-7 record. They play next when they travel to Bloomington Central Catholic for a Illini Prairie test on Monday, January 30. Prairie Central will encounter a Saints squad coming off a 58-26 non-league loss to PORTA/Ashland-Chandlerville Central (Petersburg, IL). The Saints record now stands at 17-9.