Grundy County Panthers in HDC Conference Tournament

Last week the Grundy County Panthers girls and boys teams took part in the annual HDC conference tournament. Members of the HDC conference include Grundy RV, Mercer, Winston, East Harrison, Gilman City and TriCounty. The tournament consisted of pool play between the six teams.

The Lady Panthers faced off against Gilman City first. Results for the games are as follows:

02/07 - Win over Gilman City with a score of 41-35. Leading scorer for the game was Molly Milazzo with 10 points. Leading rebounder for the game was Kinsley Allnut with 19 rebounds.

02/09 - Forced win over Tri-County, the Lady Mustangs forfeiting due to illness.

Winning the first two games put the Lady Panthers into the Championship bracket, where they took on the Mercer Lady Cardinals.

02/11- Loss to Mercer in single overtime by a final score of 42-48. Lead scorer on the night was Kinsley Allnut with 17 points.

Molly Milazzo lead the team in rebounds with a total of eight.

Losing to Mercer put them at runner up in the HDC Conference girls tournament. Final results for the six teams were:

1st - Mercer

2nd - Grundy County

3rd - Gilman City

4th - Winston

5th - East Harrison

6th - Tri-County

The Panthers took on the Mercer Cardinals in their first matchup of the conference.

02/06 - Win over Mercer with a score of 70-48.

Leading scorer on the night was Zack Cross with 19 points. Lead rebounder was Cole Peterson with 12 re- bounds.

02/09 - The Grundy Panthers secured a win over Tri-County with a score of 68-37. Cross again led the team in points with 20 points, and Peterson also again led the team in rebounds with 11.

Grundy boys also advanced to the championship round where they faced the Winston Redbirds.

02/11 - Grundy becomes HDC conference Champions after they defeated Winston with a score of 4935. Corbin Axtell was the biggest player on the floor for the Panthers, leading the team with 23 points and 10 rebounds.

The rest of the conference tournament results are as follows:

1st - Grundy County

2nd - Winston

3rd - Gilman City

4th - Mercer

5th - UNKNOWN

6th - UNKNOWN