The Litchfield Purple Panthers were the 52-45 winner over the Southwestern Piasa Birds when they last played one another back in February of 2023, but their luck changed this time around. Litchfield fell to Southwestern 53-48. Litchfield has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Litchfield lost on Thursday despite a true team effort on the offense, the best among them being Tate Dobrinich, who scored 11 points along with seven rebounds and three steals. The team also got some help courtesy of Keenan Powell, who scored ten points along with two steals.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Southwestern to victory, but perhaps none more so than Ian Brantley, who scored 20 points along with six rebounds. That makes it eight consecutive games in which Brantley has scored at least a third of Southwestern's points. Rocky Darr was another key contributor, scoring 12 points along with three steals.
Litchfield's loss dropped their record down to 19-12. As for Southwestern, their victory was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 20-11.
Litchfield will take on Carlinville at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Hopefully Litchfield focused on turnovers this week since the team gave up 18 on Thursday. Southwestern does not have any more games scheduled as of now.
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