Unbeaten and top-ranked Paris ended the girls’ basketball season for St. Joseph-Ogden on Monday with a 62-35 win in a Class 2A sectional semifinal game at Paris.

The Tigers scored all 62 of their points in the first three quarters. Paris led 18-13 after one quarter and 39-21 at halftime and had doubled the score (62-31) after three quarters.

Katie Cramer drained three three-point shots and made a team-high 11 points for SJ-O. Payton Jacob contributed 10 points.

Cramer netted a team-high 46 three-pointers for the season.

SJ-O ended the season with a 21-11 overall record.

Ten different squad members led the Spartans in scoring in at least one game this season.

Cramer was the leader in 11 games. She was followed by Ashlyn Lannert (six games), Payton Jacob (five games), Ella Armstrong (four games), Taylor Barnes (three games), Payton Vallee (three games), Atleigh Hamilton (two games), Taylor Wells (two games), Abby Behrens (one game) and Alyssa Hamilton (one game).

The team’s top individual scoring performances were by Jacob (19 points), Barnes (18 points) and Armstrong (17 points).

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St. Joseph-Ogden was held to one third-quarter field goal on Monday and suffered a 49-40 Illini Prairie Conference girls’ basketball loss at Unity.

Alyssa Hamilton hit the lone Spartan basket in the third quarter. Teammate Ashlyn Lannert’s two free throws accounted for the other SJ-O points in the stanza.

Unity expanded a 26-23 halftime lead into a 38-27 cushion after three quarters.

Four Spartans ended with six points apiece: Taylor Barnes, Katie Cramer, Atleigh Hamilton and Lannert.

SJ-O is 15-6 overall and will try to break a two-game losing skid tonight at home against Prairie Central. The Spartans are 2-2 in IPC games.

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The Spartans (4-1) dropped their home-opener on Tuesday, 65-44, to Paris.

Taylor Barnes scored a team-high nine points. Finishing with six points apiece were Alyssa Hamilton, Payton Jacob and Ashlyn Lannert.

Paris jumped into a 14-6 lead after one quarter.

Lannert and Katie Cramer were picked for the all-tournament team the previous week at the Lady Bunny/Lady Falcon Classic.

SJ-O returns to action tonight at home against Tuscola.

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Three Spartan underclassmen were mentioned in the honorable mention category by The Illinois Best Weekly in its preseason Class 1A individual state rankings.

Junior A.J.  Wagner received notice at 113 pounds as did teammates Isaiah Moore, a sophomore, at 120 pounds and Isaiah Immke, a junior, at 138 pounds.

The Spartans open the season on Saturday at Danville with a series of dual meets that will also include Urbana, LeRoy and Olympia.

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St. Joseph-Ogden’s girls’ basketball team won the championship in the Lady Falcon/Lady Bunny Tournament on Friday at Fisher.

SJ-O (4-0) pulled out close wins in both the semifinals and the finals.

The Spartans edged Villa Grove/Heritage 46-43 in Thursday’s semifinal contest.

Katie Cramer drained four three-point shots and scored a team-high 14 points. Taylor Barnes added 13 points and Payton Jacob scored seven points.

SJ-O needed overtime in the championship game, a 45-43 decision over Paxton-Buckley-Loda.

No Spartan scored in double figures, but Cramer led the way with nine points. Alyssa Hamilton scored eight points and Jacob added seven.

Four players scored for SJ-O in the 4-minute extra session: Hamilton, Ashlynn Lannert and Payton Vallee each hit two points and Barnes added the last of her six free throw conversions.

SJ-O returns to action on Tuesday in its home-opener against Paris.

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St. Joseph-Ogden’s girls’ basketball team opened the season with two wins in two nights this week and had different scoring leaders in each game.

On Monday, the Spartans handed Fisher a 39-22 setback in the first round of the Lady Falcon/Lady Bunny Tournament at Fisher.

Alyssa Hamilton drilled two three-point shots and led SJ-O with nine points. Teammate Payton Jacob added eight points, including one basket from three-point range.

The Spartans’ Payton Vallee scored seven points on Monday, two days after playing in the third-place state tournament volleyball match in Normal.

Fisher led 6-5 after one quarter, but SJ-O captured the lead at halftime, 19-14 and built its margin to 15 points after three quarters.

Taylor Barnes and Ashlyn Lannert each added six points for the Spartans.

On Tuesday, SJ-O overpowered Iroquois West 49-16.

Lannert knocked down a game-high 15 points.

Hamilton drained nine points. Barnes and Katie Cramer each hit six points.

All three of Cramer’s baskets after two games have been from beyond the three-point arc. Barnes also has three three-pointers.

SJ-O’s defense limited Iroquois West to one first-half basket while building a 26-5 lead at intermission.

SJ-O (2-0) returns to action tonight at Fisher in the 5:30 p.m. game against Villa Grove/Heritage (2-0).

The winner will advance into Saturday’s championship game. The loser will play in Saturday’s third-place game.

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2 Ashlyn Lannert G 5’4″ 2022
4 Nora Walden F 5’6″ 2021
5 Taylor Campbell G/F 5’4″ 2021
10 Payton Jacob G/F 5’9″ 2022
11 Taylor Wells F/C 6’1″ 2022
12 Atleigh Hamilton G 5’5″ 2021
13 Kathryn Cramer G 5’5″ 2020
14 Abby Behrens G 5’4″ 2022
15 Taylor Barnes G/F 5’9″ 2020
21 Alyssa Hamilton G/F 5’8″ 2022
22 Payton Vallee F 5’10” 2021
23 Ella Armstrong G/F 5’9″ 2022
33 Anna Wentzloff F 5’7″ 2020

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