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The Adrian Lady Blackhawks began the 82nd Annual Archie Tournament with a 6th seed. They took on the 3rd seed Lone Jack Lady Mules Tuesday, January 24. Adrian was defeated 42 to 20. Coach Basore commented, “We came ready to play. We defended well and then we were hit with a box-in-one. I did not have my team prepared for that. Hopefully we will see them again in the Midway tournament and we will be prepared.”

The Adrian Blackhawks Wrestling team participated in the Richmond Tournament on Saturday, January 28. Those placing were:
113 Dakota Jones-3rd place. Pinned the number 6 ranked kid in his weight class.
126 Michael Lopez-3rd place
160 Joe Collins-4th place
170 Christian Schlotman-4th place
182 Vince Romi-2nd place
220 Jon Melton-4th place
285 Christian Graham-2nd place. Finished ahead of 3rd ranked kid in his weight class.

Right to left: Christian Graham, Logan Tallman, Vince Romi

The Adrian Blackhawks traveled to Lakeland Tuesday night, January 17 for non-conference action and both boys and girls came away with victories. “It was a good win for us on the road” commented Coach Basore.

In the boys contest Adrian posted a 63 to 56 win and moved their overall record to 8-2. “We didn’t come out ready to play but did enough to win” commented Coach Basore.

The games on Friday night against Osceola were cancelled due to bad weather.

Right: Kamiron Luptak takes a shot from the outside against the Lady Vikings defender last Tuesday night at Lakeland.

Eric Moles puts up two against the Butler Bears in the first round of the 82nd annual Archie Tournament Monday night. Moles scored 23 points. On this night Eric became the second highest scorer in Adrian boy’s basketball history. He now has a total of 1293 points. Before Monday night Jim Sterns was in 1st place with 2307; Phil Young, 2nd with 1276; Derek Moles (Eric’s dad), 3rd with 1272; and 4th was Mark Tenholder with 1203.

In the first round of the 82nd Annual Archie Tournament on Monday night, the No. 3 seed Adrian Blackhawks boys team went up against the No. 6 seed Butler Bears. The game went into overtime and the Blackhawks fell short, 53-44.

Coach Basore commented on the game, “We have to have some kids step up for us to keep improving.”