Pence and Cain lead Spartans over St. Thomas More

By FRED KRONER
fred@mahometnews.com

Payton Cain and Ty Pence both reached their season’s high for points scored in a game on Tuesday as St. Joseph-Ogden’s boys’ basketball team won at home over St. Thomas More, 66-45, in an Illini Prairie Conference game.

Cain and Pence each tallied 23 points.

Teammates Conner Hodge and Chance Izard chipped in with seven points apiece.

Hodge gathered a team-high nine rebounds, but had plenty of support on the boards. Payton Grimsley had eight rebounds, Cain had seven rebounds and Pence collected seven rebounds.

Pence had a team-best two assists.

SJ-O (11-6) snapped a two-game losing skid and returns to action, weather permitting, on Friday at Stanford Olympia.