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Boys Basketball: DePue and PCA to meet for BVEC championship tonight

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By Kevin Hieronymus

BRADFORD - DePue and Princeton Christian Academy will meet for the championship of the Bureau Valley Elementary Conference boys basketball tournament at Bradford tonight.

DePue beat Neponset while PCA defeated Ladd 41-22 in Tuesday’s semifinals.

The Spartans and Eagles will meet for the championship at 6:15 p.m. Thursday.

Ladd and Neponset will play for third place in the prelim.

Neponset captured the regular-season seventh-grade championship, it’s first since 1992. There is no seventh-grade tournament.

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Kevin Hieronymus

Kevin Hieronymus

Kevin has been sports editor of the BCR since 1986 and is Sports Editor of Putnam County Record. Was previously sports editor of the St. Louis Daily News and a regular contributor for the St. Louis Cardinals Magazine. He is a member of the IBCA and Illinois Valley Hall of Fames. He is one of 4 sportswriters from his tiny hometown Atlanta, IL