Edwardsville Shootout preview

The 2nd annual Edwardville shooutout will take place Thursday, Friday and Saturday 6/21-23. Thursday night features only Middle School games and Friday and Saturday will mix more Middle School games with Freshman, JV and Varsity. Over the 3 day period there will be 91 games played with 18 different varsity teams seeing action. Edwardsville will be the number one attraction as Coach Blade looks to see how she will rebuild her squad after the departure of seniors <strong>Kate Martin</strong>, <strong>Rachel Prange</strong>r and <strong>Myriah Noodle Haywood. </strong>Pranger and Martin were the highest scoring duo in program history finishing #2 and #3 in career points scored. The new look Tigers should be led by returning starters <strong>Jaylen Townsend</strong> and <strong>Quierra Love. </strong>Both girls will look to increase their scoring to make up for the losses and the Tigers will look to fill in the other 3 spots and keep the tradition rolling. <strong>Morgan Hulme </strong>saw consistent action off the bench and will most likely step into a starting spot. Morgan is very strong and will be counted on as an inside scorer and rebounder if the Tigers are going to make a run come playoff time. Ranked players in the event include: <ul> <li><strong>Ashley Schloer </strong>Ofallon 2019</li> <li><strong>Ellen Schulte </strong>Metro East Lutheran 2019</li> <li>Quierra Love Edwardsville 2020</li> <li><strong>Faith Liljgren </strong>Collinsville 2020</li> <li><strong>Elle Brown </strong>Highland 2020</li> <li><strong>Madison Webb </strong>Father McGivney 2020</li> <li><strong>Anna Burrus </strong>Triopia 2020</li> <li><strong>Shania Nunn </strong>Belleville West 2020</li> <li><strong>Anna McKee </strong>Father Mcgivney 2021</li> </ul> Other teams to watch include Concord Triopia who returns all of their players from last year and hopes to improve on their 18-12 mark. Highland, who returns a young nucleus that will hope to challenge for the Missouri Valley title. Springfield High who hopes to be able to repeat their 23 win season from last year which included a 17-1 conference mark. Father McGivney steps into the Prarie State conference for their first year hoping to battle Metro East Lutheran and Alton Marquette for a league title. McGivney and Metro East return most of their lineup and scoring from last year as they hope to take the next step and challenge for league and Regional titles.With some top young talent coming into the program the Edwardsville JV and 9th grade teams will be interesting to watch. Some of the incoming 2022 class could see varsity action by winter time so this will be a good opportunity to evaluate how they handle the step up to that level of competition. All High School games are played at the EHS complex and the Middle School games will be played at Liberty Middle School. It should be a fun event with some high quality basketball. &nbsp;