Lovejoy vs Wayne City | Basketball

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Lovejoy Wayne City

Wildcats L

Indians

The Wayne City (IL) varsity basketball team won Saturday's home tournament game against Lovejoy (IL) by a score of 59-45.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Lovejoy	-	-	-	-	45
Wayne City	-	-	-	-	59

Final score provided by J. Talbert.

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Game Stats

Lovejoy (23-24)

Lovejoy has not entered stats for this game.

Wayne City (23-24)

Wayne City

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	59	21	58	36	43
4	Tanner McNeil (Sr)	18	6	9	67	94
10	Javen Loker (So)	1	0	2	0	0
13	Koby Anderson (Sr)	6	2	11	18	23
14	Jax Scarbrough (So)	10	3	14	21	21
25	James Walker (So)	14	5	15	33	40
30	Joey Greenwalt (Sr)	10	5	7	71	71

Wayne City

#	Athlete Name	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	59	8	25	32	9	15	60	13	33	39
4	Tanner McNeil (Sr)	18	5	8	63	1	3	33	1	1	100
10	Javen Loker (So)	1	0	2	0	1	2	50
13	Koby Anderson (Sr)	6	1	2	50	1	2	50	1	9	11
14	Jax Scarbrough (So)	10	0	5	0	4	4	100	3	9	33
25	James Walker (So)	14	2	8	25	2	2	100	3	7	43
30	Joey Greenwalt (Sr)	10				0	2	0	5	7	71

Wayne City

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	TO	PF
	Team Totals	59	9	10	19	16	10	9	8
4	Tanner McNeil (Sr)	18	1	4	5	1		2	3
10	Javen Loker (So)	1	0	1	1				1
13	Koby Anderson (Sr)	6	2	0	2	5	2	2	2
14	Jax Scarbrough (So)	10	2	3	5	5	3	2	0
25	James Walker (So)	14	0	1	1	3	4	2	0
30	Joey Greenwalt (Sr)	10	4	1	5	2	1	1	2

Wayne City

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO	Stl:PF
	Team Totals	1.78	1.11	1.25
4	Tanner McNeil (Sr)	0.50
13	Koby Anderson (Sr)	2.50	1.00	1.00
14	Jax Scarbrough (So)	2.50	1.50	3.00
25	James Walker (So)	1.50	2.00	4.00
30	Joey Greenwalt (Sr)	2.00	1.00	0.50

Game Story

Illinois High School Basketball - Lovejoy knocked off by Wayne City

December 16, 2023: Wayne City, IL 62895

The Wayne City Indians basketball team scored 59 points and held the visiting Lovejoy Wildcats to 45 in the Indians non-league triumph on Saturday.

The Indians now sport a 3-8 record. They put it on the line next when they host Red Hill for a Midland Trail contest on Tuesday, December 19. Wayne City will battle a Salukis team coming off a 72-46 league loss to Waltonville (Waltonville, IL). The Salukis record now stands at 5-7.

The Wildcats (1-3) will now prepare for their contest against Griggsville-Perry (Griggsville, IL). The Tornadoes enter the non-league contest with a 8-2 record.

Rankings & Records

Lovejoy (23-24)

IL	Class
645	178

Overall	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	PF	PA
2-8	2-0	0-7	0-1	.200	381	483

Wayne City (23-24)

IL	Class
639	173

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	PF	PA
8-23	2-6	6-7	1-12	1-4	.258	.250	1,447	1,824

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Lovejoy	3.7	4.7	4.0	5.0	38.1
Wayne City	11.8	11.3	13.4	11.7	46.7

Team Stat Comparison

Lovejoy		Wayne City
-	Points Per Game	46.7
-	Rebounds Per Game	21.5
-	Assists Per Game	9.0
-	Steals Per Game	6.3
-	Blocks Per Game	1.5

Team Leaders

Lovejoy		Wayne City	National Avg.
-	Points Per Game	#4 Tanner McNeil12.7	4.9
-	Rebounds Per Game	#4 Tanner McNeil4.9	2.6
-	Assists Per Game	#25 James Walker3.7	1.0
-	Steals Per Game	#25 James Walker1.8	0.8
-	Blocks Per Game	#4 Tanner McNeil0.9	0.3

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Lovejoy	0-2		Wayne City	0-1

Date	Away	Home	Result		Date	Away	Home	Result
1/17/24	Lovejoy	Murphysboro	(L) 2-0 (F)		2/13/24	Wayne City	Murphysboro	(L) 73-39
1/23/24	Lovejoy	Murphysboro	(L) 1-0

Record Breakdown

L Lovejoy (23-24)		Wayne City (23-24)
2-8	Overall	8-23
0-0	League	4-7
1-3	Non-League	1-10
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
0-2	Common Opponent	0-1
2-0	Home	6-7
0-7	Away	1-12
0-1	Neutral	1-4
0-0	Playoff	0-1
2-7	In-State	8-23
0-1	Out-of-State	0-0