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At least 12 scholarships will be awarded by Tri-County Opportunities Council to income-eligible students residing in the agency’s service area.

The scholarships are worth up to $1,250 and have been made available by the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Development through its Community Services Block

Grant funds.

To be eligible for the scholarship competition: The applicant must be a member of an income-eligible household.

The applicants must attend an Illinois-accredited post-secondary educational institution of higher learning during fall 2024.

Applicants must be a resident of Bureau, Carroll, La Salle, Lee, Marshall, Ogle, Putnam, Stark or Whiteside

County in Illinois.

Students must be considered fulltime (minimum of 12 semester hours) to qualify for the full $1,250 scholarship.

Part-time students will be considered in the competition. However, scholarship awards will be pro-rated if they are selected as a winner.

The application deadline is March 15.

For information and application forms, visit www.tcochelps.org or call the office at 800-323-5434, ext. 710.

Hall High School learns basics of hydroponics SHAW LOCAL NEWS NETWORK contact@shawmedia.com

Students in the Spring Valley Hall High School biology classes learned the basics of hydroponics during an extended program delivered by the Bureau, La Salle, Marshall-Putnam 4-H and Master Gardener program.

The high school teachers and students, assisted by master gardener volunteers, participated in the hydroponics program over the course of the fall semester.

As it becomes too cold to grow vegetables, flowers and herbs outside, it’s

important that people learn to look for alternatives. Students learned firsthand how to start seedlings, how to regulate plant nutrient and light requirements, as well as how to manage the relationship between nutrient solution and pH. The result of their efforts was healthy vegetation grown in aeroponic towers.

The University of Illinois Extension hydroponics program uses direct classroom instruction focused on content and application aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards for high school.

Each session provided learners with

the knowledge and practices needed to start and grow healthy plants indoors in a balanced nutrient solution.

Throughout this program, students learn the value of soil as a valuable but limited resource.

The University of Illinois Extension is looking to bring this opportunity to another school this spring.

For information on the program, contact Sara Poignant, 4-H youth development coordinator, at 815-875-2878 or poignant@illinois.edu, or Bettyann Harrison, master gardener/master naturalist coordinator, at 309-364-2356 or bettyann@illinois.edu.

County farm bureaus to host farm-transition seminar SHAW LOCAL NEWS NETWORK contact@shawmedia.com

The process of transitioning the family farm may come with conflict.

Sometimes it’s not easy to identify who from the next generation will take over, according to the Bureau and Marshall-Putnam County farm bureaus.

Other times, he or she will need to be recruited.

Once future leaders are in place, then the real work of transitioning leadership, enhancing governance and transferring ownership comes into play.

The Bureau and Marshall-Putnam

County farm bureaus are offering a free, full-day farm-transition seminar from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 1 at the Bureau County Metro Center, 837 Park Ave. W., Princeton, to help families work through these challenges.

It’s a valuable opportunity for everyone involved in the farm to set aside a day in exchange for information that will shape the family farm for generations to come.

Participants will walk away with next steps and the foundation to bring the next generation onto the farm, according to the farm bureaus.

The event will feature expert advice, models and a framework for complet-

ing this process; time to reflect on your farm by collecting and recording your thoughts at key points; and opportunities to learn from peers who are in similar situations, according to the farm bureaus.

This educational seminar is a part of the Illinois Farm Bureau’s continuous work to provide technical assistance so farm families in Illinois can succeed.

Dan Bean of the ag consulting group CMA will lead the seminar. He grew up on a family farm and owns farmland.

Register by Feb. 21 by calling the Bureau County Farm Bureau at 815875-6468 or the Marshall-Putnam Farm Bureau at 309-364-2501.

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tcollins@shawmedia.com OSF announced an April 7 opening date for the Peru hospital Monday.

The hospital, 925 West St., is tentatively scheduled to open on that day with emergency services and limited inpatient beds, OSF said in a news release Monday.

The news comes a year after the former Illinois Valley Community Hospital, then St. Margaret’s, closed in Peru.

Diagnostic imaging, laboratory, pharmacy, EKG and respiratory will be available to serve the patients in the ED and inpatient unit. Additional programs and services will become available later in a second phase. There are still many elements that will need to be finalized before officially opening.

“After much planning and preparation, we are excited to open this new OSF campus,” said August Querciagrossa, CEO of Western Region, OSF HealthCare, in Monday’s news release.

“All along, our goal has been to preserve and sustain access to high-quality, local health care for the residents of the Illinois Valley. (Monday) is a significant milestone in the history of our Ministry.”

Peru Mayor Ken Kolowski said he was overjoyed but also “a little shaken” after the tumult of not having a local hospital for 366 days. The former Illinois Valley Community Hospital was closed Jan. 28, 2023, and Kolowski spent the duration aching for an announcement from OSF. “It’s been a long year and a day and there have been a lot of sleepless nights,” Kolowski said. “When I met the OSF people for the first time I just knew: these were the people who were going to get this done.”

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OSF announced an April 7 opening date for the Peru hospital Monday.

“It’s just a great day for the people,” he said. “I’ve said right from the gate: we’ve come back from this bigger, stronger and better.”

Oglesby Mayor Jason Curran was equally pleased. Oglesby has an especially vocal contingent of senior citizens who were clamoring for emergency services and EMS response times were increased when emergency cases were redirected to Mendota.

Curran said there still are logistical issues to be sorted.

“I’m excited to know we have more options, obviously, and I know this will improve our response times, but I still have questions and concerns.”

In addition to the hospital, OSF acquired the former Midtown Plaza complex, Midtown Clinic and Granville Clinic. These sites opened last July and included OSF PromptCare, OSF Medical Group – Primary Care locations, OSF Occupational Health and OSF Rehabilitation. Other new primary care locations opened this month in Spring Valley and Oglesby, along with OSF Medical Group – Obstetrics & Gynecology in Peru. OSF HealthCare has hired more than 450 former employees, physicians and advanced medical

providers of St. Margaret’s Health to staff the hospital and other locations.

OSF also serves residents of Mendota, Princeton, Ottawa, Marseilles and Streator with 24/7 emergency services, primary and specialty care, prompt care, OSF OnCall Urgent Care and 24/7 digital urgent care, nurse triage and other types of care.

“OSF HealthCare has provided care to the Illinois Valley and surrounding

communities for some time now,” said Dawn Trompeter, president of OSF HealthCare St. Elizabeth Medical Center and OSF HealthCare St. Paul Medical Center. “We are excited to expand our partnership with these communities to provide a local source of health care with all the benefits of a nationally recognized system.”

Monday’s announcement was months in the making and required enormous coordination with state lawmakers, who rejoiced at the news.

“We are very excited with this announcement,” said state Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris. “The big celebration will be when full services are again available to the people of the Illinois Valley, but reopening the emergency room is a necessary first step and we are grateful to OSF for making it a priority to restoring emergency services.”

“It is a great relief to have OSF open the facility and work to stabilize our health care needs in this area,” state Rep. Lance Yednock said. “We have worked hard to get here, and there is more work ahead.”

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IVCC neurodiversity group promotes equity Group hopes to give members a place to be heard SHAW LOCAL NEWS NETWORK contact@shawmedia.com

Illinois Valley Community College’s newest diversity student organization is finding its voice.

The aptly named Minds of All Kinds is a group for whom neurodiversity is no mystery, and members who formed it last fall have been introducing the group and the concept behind it to classmates.

Now they’re deciding what’s next.

Through leadership on campus and community diversity and equity issues, Tina Hardy said she hopes the group will give members a place to be heard, but she also wants it to be a place to belong.

“It’s a place to be you and to tell others about you,” said Hardy, the coordinator of IVCC’s Center for Accessibility and Neurodiversity.

“Students will have a chance to participate in events and activities they never felt they could before. They will see that they can make contributions and be an important part of a

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Minds of All Kinds members Aaron Noble, Alexia Gross and Sonja Penney welcomed questions from classmates during Spirit Day 2023. Members of the new neurodiversity group are gearing up for a new semester of activities, support and advocacy. community that has respect for them and a place for them. And that’s a big deal.”

The term neurodiversity acknowledges that brains develop differently, including in some cases from medical disorders, learning disabilities or other conditions. It challenges labels that Hardy said leave people feeling

“less than” or broken, who “get overlooked sometimes in conversations” about what will affect them.

Organizations similar to Minds of All Kinds have sprouted on college campuses to support an often underserved and underrepresented population, Hardy said.

She said the IVCC group’s forma-

tion now is right in a lot of ways: “the right students, the right time at the college, the right time in society.”

What can neurodiversity look like? Hardy cited a few examples.

“Some people struggle to communicate verbally or in writing but do advanced math beyond the scope of most of us,” she said. “Sometimes neurodiversity looks like that. Some people can’t pay attention to boring things but their brains are suited to making decisions, acting quickly and looking at details.

“Some people might be creative or artistic but struggle with math or reading or organizing their thoughts.

Sometimes neurodiversity looks like that.”

Unlike some physical differences, neurodiversity isn’t always apparent. But differences created by dyslexia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, anxiety and other conditions still create or intensify challenges in anything from making friends or adapting to change to focusing or coping.

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ahead,” Rezin said in a news release.

“By fostering a statewide dialogue, we can take collective action to put

protections into place to protect minors when using these platforms.”

Studies have revealed that the deliberate design of social media platforms encourages harmful behaviors; intensifies issues such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders and feelings of inadequacy; and provides a venue for unwanted sexual advances on minors.

These research findings align with disclosures from multiple whistleblowers who testified before the U.S. Congress providing further support for the independent research results.

“While these platforms offer immense opportunities for communication and learning, they also present significant risks, especially when it comes to the deceptive practices employed by social media platforms to target young users through algorithms and data harvesting,” Rezin said. “This initiative will enhance online safety for children, creating a safer digital environment than the one they encountered in the past.”

The goal of Rezin’s Safe Screens, Healthy Minds initiative is to directly address those concerns through the introduction and passage of legislation.

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State Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris, announced the launch of her Safe Screens, Healthy Minds initiative, which intends to address the harmful effects social media platforms have on young, developing minds, and to hold social media platforms accountable for deceptive practices.

During the first phase of Rezin’s initiative, the senator will host a series of roundtables across the state to gather input from parents, educators and mental health professionals.

The first event will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, in the Yorkville Middle School auditorium, 920 Prairie Crossing Drive.

The specific dates and locations for subsequent events will be announced at a later time.

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Illinois Valley Symphony performance set for March 10 at La Salle-Peru High School SHAW LOCAL NEWS NETWORK contact@shawmedia.com

Young musicians from across the Illinois Valley area competed Jan. 6 for the opportunity to solo with the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra for their upcoming concert and school concert performances.

Senior division winner Gabrielle Mosley is the daughter of Jeanette Mosley. She is a senior at La Salle-Peru High School and studies flute at Music Suite 408 as a student of Sue Gillio.

A participant in community ensembles, Mosley performs in the Illinois Valley Flute Ensemble, the Illinois Valley Community College Wind Ensemble, and the L-P Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Marching Band and Pit Orchestra.

She has attended the Illinois Music Education Association district bands and orchestras for six years and was selected for the Illinois All-State band and honors bands for three years.

Mosley plans to attend the University of Arizona to study pre-medicine and minor in flute performance.

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Senior division winner Gabrielle Mosley is the daughter of Jeanette Mosley. She is a senior at La Salle-Peru High School and studies flute at Music Suite 408 as a student of Sue Gillio.

Junior division winner Hallee Loza is a freshman at Ottawa High School and the daughter of Sandra and William Loza of Ottawa.

ipant under Gerald Carey, flute professor emeritus at Western Illinois University.

In addition to flute, Hallee participates in cross country and track.

Junior division honorable mention competitors were Mia Gross on piano and Daphne Heeley on viola.

Senior division runner-up was flutist Ava Rosengren, and honorable mentions were Molly Ewen, voice; Emily Kmetz, flute; Ella Lewis, saxophone. Competition runners-up and honorable mentions will perform at Westclox Fine Arts Factory in the IVSO Honors Recital at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2.

Competition winners Mosley and Loza will join the IVSO on stage at their March 10 concert at La Salle-Peru High School and at a series of school performances on March 1.

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The concert program will also feature Edvard Grieg’s “Peer Gynt Suite” and “The Firebird Suite” by Igor Stravinsky alongside selections by Michael Torke and Aaron Copland.

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NEURODIVERSITY 10 •Continued from page 4 “All brains are good brains and have a broad range of skills and abilities that can be valued and used,” Hardy said. “Expectations and environments might be the problem, not the brain or the person.”

Member Alexia Gross said she welcomes questions from classmates.

“It’s good for people to realize that people aren’t less intelligent or copouts if they struggle with certain things,” Gross said. “I used to feel dumb because of that.”

“We just think and process differently, but we’re still people,” member Laura Pool said. “It’s the way our brains work.”

Member Sonja Penney, no stranger to self-advocacy, wants to be an example of it to others. Her previous experience with a neurodiversity group, she told Hardy, proved to be a catalyst for the IVCC group.

She said she’s happy knowing neurodiverse students have “somewhere to belong if they want to, where they can find support in ways they need to do better in school.”

“And it’s important to me to know that faculty at the school I attend want to support students and actually create that support,” Penney said.

Neurodiverese students “want to be treated as equals and for our opinions to be recognized,” member Aaron Noble said.

He said he hopes neurodiverse and neurotypical people grow comfort-

able with each other and the concept.

“The group has given me hope that I can make a positive difference in the world,” Noble said. “I want to create events where we can talk about mental health and how to make it better for each of us.”

Meanwhile, members have found somewhere to belong. Noble said he found a best friend. And Gross said she can relax in the company of people who understand her challenges.

“I haven’t had a connection like this before. We look out for each other,” she said. “It’s just really nice to feel like you can say anything and not have to dumb it down to people who don’t understand. I feel like, where I live, neurodiversity doesn’t get talked about.”

The group’s members share their abilities on and off campus. They are successful students. One’s a business entrepreneur. Two are tutors. One enjoys research and has found a niche as a community activist.

“I can take concepts that I understand and explain them at a basic level to someone who is just getting introduced to the subject,” Noble said about being a tutor. “I know what worked to help me learn, and I can show others that process.”

“People with different abilities build resilience, and that’s a big skill not everyone has,” Penney said.

Member Raul Campos believes the group’s diversity is its strength.

“One person’s good at this, another at that, and another at another thing, so we come together and are good at different things, not just one,” Campos said.

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The top-seeded Seneca won the 97th Tri-County Conference Tournament championship 68-54 against No. 2-seeded Marquette Academy on Saturday at Putnam County High School.

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Seneca tops Marquette for T-CC Tournament title Top-seeded Fighting Irish use a 3rd-quarter burst, 40-18 rebounding edge to beat the No. 2 Crusaders

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bhoxsey@shawmedia.com GRANVILLE — After an opening half that saw both top-seeded Seneca and No. 2 seed Marquette Academy nearly trade point for point, the Fighting Irish made their move.

Trailing by two early in the third quarter, Seneca’s Paxton Giertz sank a pair of 3-pointers from the top of the key before Lane Provance and Kysen Klinker scored off offensive rebounds as part of a 15-7 run that turned the tide and helped lead the Irish to a 68-54 triumph in the championship game of the 97th Tri-County Conference Tournament at Putnam County High School’s R.M. Germano Gymnasium.

It was Seneca’s first title after three runner-up finishes the past four seasons. Marquette defeated Seneca in last season’s title contest.

“The last two years have been really disappointing getting to this game and not coming away with a win,” said Seneca senior Lane Provance, who finished with 18 points and 14 rebounds. “I really

wanted this one, especially being my last shot at it.”

Seneca (18-7) trailed Marquette 15-14 after the opening eight minutes and 31-30 at halftime.

“The first thing I put up on the board before the game was, we will win this game with our bigs,” Seneca coach Russ Witte said. “If guys like Lane, Kysen and Grant (Siegel) play like they can we will win. I also felt like we had a pretty good game plan defensively, and while Marquette hit some shots in the first half, I felt we broke down way too much.

“I gave them a little chewing at halftime. I said the things we just practiced (Friday), we aren’t really executing like we should be. Then in the second half, we came out and strung a number of stops together and went on a gradual run of our own. It also helps when Paxton gets on a heater and starts knocking down shots. We’ve had so many games were either Lane or Kysen played super well, but tonight was the first time this season they both really stepped up and played well together.”

Marquette (14-7), after the aforementioned early second half Seneca burst, stayed close with a pair of free throws by Denver Trainor and a short jumper by Carson Zellers but trailed 47-39 heading to the fourth. another drive by Trainor closed the gap to 49-41 a minute into the

I gave them a little chewing at halftime. I said the things we just practiced (Friday), we aren’t really executing like we should be. Then in the second half, we came out and strung a number of stops together and went on a gradual run of our own.”

Russ Witte, Seneca boys basketball coach fourth, but Seneca responded with Giertz netting seven straight points to extend the lead to 15. From there the Irish swished 12 of 14 free throws to close out the win.

Giertz finished with a game-high 32 points, to go along with six rebounds and four assists. Klinker added 12 points and seven rebounds for Seneca, which shot 46% (23 of 50) from the floor.

“Kysen and I wanted to be as active as we could on both ends of the floor,” Provance said. “I felt like we did OK with that in the first half, but I feel like we stepped it up another notch to start

the third quarter. It also helps when you have a guy like Paxton who can fill it up.

It felt like us big guys doing our job in the paint and on the boards helped open up a little more space for him to get going. Marquette has a bunch of really quick guys, so the focus was trying to keep them out of the lane, play good help side defense and then try and grab every rebound we could.”

Trainor paced Marquette with 23 points, with Alec Novotney adding 13 and Zellers seven. The Crusaders finished hitting 41% (20 of 49) from the field.

“The third quarter was the key tonight.” Marquette coach Todd Hopkins said. “Seneca was able to put together a little run there at the start and we hit a stretch where the ball just wouldn’t fall for us. But give credit to Seneca, especially their inside guys.

They really hurt us rebounding the ball and we just gave them way too many second chances at the hoop.

“I very proud of the effort my guys gave tonight. They played hard and gave a great effort. We’ll see Seneca here in a couple weeks, so we’ll see what we can do the second time around.”

Giertz, Provance and Brady Sheedy, as well as Trainor and Novotney were named to the 10-player all-tournament team.

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TRI-COUNTY BRACKETS Saturday, Jan. 20 No. 9 St. Bede 39, No. 8 Henry 35 No. 10 PC 66, No. 7 Dwight 60 Tuesday’s games No. 1 Seneca 66, No. 9 St. Bede 32 No. 2 Marquette 60, No. 10 PC 44 Photos by Scott Anderson

Putnam County’s Orlando Harris works his way in the lane as Marquette’s Orlando Harris defends during the Tri-County Conference Tournament on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Putnam County High School.

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Panthers fall in consolation finals Saepharn makes all-tournament team

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bhoxsey@shawmedia.com The Putnam County Panthers finished 2-2 in the Tri-County Conference boys basketballl tournament, falling in the consolation championship on Saturday to Lowpoint-Washburn 72-57.

The Panthers opened the tournament with a 66-60 win over Dwight in the play-in game on Saturday, Jan. 20.

In other games, the Panthers fell to Ottawa Marquette 60-44 on Tuesday, Jan. 23, and defeated Roanoke-Benson 45-42 on Friday, Jan. 26.

PC senior Owen Saepharn was named to the all-tournament team.

Marquette Academy 60, Putnam County 44

Crusaders sophomore Alec Novotney swished all five of his 3-point attempts in the first quarter to help his squad lead 19-15. In the second quarter, Panthers senior Owen Saepharn sank a trio of 3s, part of his 11-point quarter to help the hosts hold a 30-26 lead at the intermission.

Putnam County held a 33-31 lead early in the third quarter before a layup by Henry McGrath and back-toback 3s by freshman Griffin Dobberstein helped the Cru lead 44-37 heading to the fourth. The Panthers used consecutive baskets by Jaden Stoddard and Bryce Smith to close to within 44-41, but three more 3s by Novotney

Wednesday’s games No. 3 Woodland 44, No. 6 Roanoke-Benson 36 No. 4 Midland 51, No. 5 Lowpoint-Washburn 46 Thursday’s games No. 1 Seneca 69, No. 4 Midland 50 No. 2 Marquette 69, No. 3 Woodland 52 Friday’s games Cconsolation third - No. 8 Henry 59, No. 7 Dwight 34 No. 5 Lowpoint-Washburn 72, No. 9 St. Bede 55 No. 10 Putnam County 45, No. 6 Roanoke-Benson 42 Saturday’s games Consolation finals - No. 5 Lowpoint-Washburn 72, No. 10 Putnam County 57 Third place - No. 4 Midland 42, No. 3 Woodland 41 Title - No. 1 Seneca 68, No. 2 Marquette 54 – Kevin Hieronymus

PC ROUNDUP Putnam County’s Bryce Smith blocks the ball from Marquette’s Griffin Dobberstein during the Tri-County Conference Tournament on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at Putnam County High School. and another by Carson Zellers pushed the lead to 15 with two minutes to play.

Novotney finished with a gamehigh 32 points, including hitting 9 of 12 from beyond the arc. Zellers had eight points, five assists and three steals. Marquette hit 50% (20 of 40) from the floor and 13 of 20 from 3-point range.

Saepharn paced PC with 18 points, Smith added 10 points and five steals, and Stoddard grabbed a team-best seven rebounds.

“You have to give [PC coach] Harold [Fay] and his team a lot of credit.

They were ready to go right from the start and played us very tough for

much of the game tonight,” Marquette coach Todd Hopkins said. “They were just outhustling us in the first half and playing better defense than we were.

But then in the second half we started being the more aggressive team, played with a lot more fire and held them to 14 points in the second half.

“Zellers and Dobberstein each knocked down a couple of big shots for us there in the second half to help us extend our lead a bit. Alec’s 3s, boy, we needed every one of them.

Putnam County did a good job of taking him away in the second half, but like I said, we had other guys step up and hit shots when we needed them.”

GIRLS WRESTLING Putnam County-Hall: Two girls from the Putnam County-Hall girls wrestling co-op advanced to the IHSA sectionals this weekend.

Both Bailey Herr (190) and Ella Irwin (235) finished as runners-up at the Erie-Prophetstown Regional on Saturday to advance to the Geneseo Sectional.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Putnam County 37, Dwight 27: Ava Hatton scored 10 points to lead the Lady Panthers to a Tri-County Conference victory in Dwight on Thursday, Jan. 25.

Maggie Richetta had nine points for Putnam County (18-8), while Gabby Doyle added eight points.

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Top-seeded Seneca defeated No. 2 Marquette 68-54 for the championship of 97th annual Tri-County Conference boys basketball tournament Saturday at Putnam County High School in Granville.

No. 4 Midland beat No. 3 Woodland 42-41 for third place while No. 5 Lowpoint-Washburn defeated No. 10 Putnam County 72-57 for the consolation championship

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