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Girls basketball: Logan 7ths, BV 8ths take top seeds into SRC Tournament

Games will be held Oct. 21-26 in Mendota

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The Princeton Logan seventh-graders and the Bureau Valley eighth-graders will take the No. 1 seeds into the Starved Rock Conference girls basketball tournament which starts Saturday at Mendota.

Bureau Valley is seeded No. 2 in the seventh grade while Princeton is seeded No. 3 in the eighth grade.

In the seventh-grade tourney, No. 1 Logan will play No. 8 Streator at 1 p.m. while BV faces No. 7 LaSalle at 9 a.m. and No. 6 Spring Valley will face No. 3 Ottawa at 2 p.m.

In eighth-grade matchups, No. 1 BV will face No. 8 Mendota at 8 a.m. and Logan will play No. 6 Spring Valley at 3 p.m. The Logan 8th graders beat BV for last year’s 7th-grade championship.

The tournament runs through Thursday, Oct. 26.

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