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Area athletes to play in All-Star challenge

Sunday, May 31, 2009
Dexter Daily Statesman
Three Stoddard County basketball players were scheduled to play in the The Missouri All-Star Challenge, hosted by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association will be held May 29th and May 30th at Columbia College.

Dexter's Katelyn Heil and Jill Temples will be representing Dexter's Lady Bearcats in the challenge, while Bernie Zach Curry was on the boys roster as Basketball enthusiasts across the state will have one more chance to see these seniors compete for the Missouri Cup.

Heil will be attending college and playing basketball for the Missoui S & T in Rolla, while Temples has signed to play hoops for Three Rivers Community College i Poplar Bluff a long with another Dexter graduate, Ashlee Taylor.

Curry recently signed to play basketball for Bethel College.

The MBCA is replacing the former "Hall of Fame Games" All-Star games with a new format called "The Missouri Challenge" A team of 10 all stars (seniors only) will be chosen from each of the 8 regions of the state as divided by MSHSAA and will play a single elimination tournament at Columbia College on May 29th and 30th.

Eight boys and girls all-star teams composed of a selection of the top seniors in the Show-Me State will meet in Columbia at Columbia College in the Inaugural Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Missouri Challenge.

The quarterfinal final round was scheduled for Friday(May 29). Winners were to advance to the semifinal round to be held on Saturday morning (May 30th) with the championship later that evening.

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Two things.

First, 3 fine high school athletes who competed well in the area and deserve some level of recognition.

Second, what a horrible thing to replace the Hall of Fame game. This game used to be between 1A-2A All staters (total of 10, 5 first team from each class) and 3A-4A(same thing, 10 total). Amazing thing is the 1A-2A squad dominated for years, with one amazing upset being over Anthony Peeler's All Star team. In '89, the 3A-4A bunch beat the snot of out 1A-2A for the first time in 4 years.....120-80. The next year, the game was watered down and players were mixed together regardless of class.

I sure miss recognition meaning more. Now we have around 30 kids named All State in each class.

These 3 all may be deserving. I know one out of the 3 does for sure and the other two likely do as well, so cograts big time. I just wish there were some award that carried the weight of what being named All State used to mean.

-- Posted by shannonhoon on Sun, May 31, 2009, at 9:29 PM

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