Photo of the Day | December 17, 2022

Big step forward
St. Joseph - SJO's Kaytlyn Baker makes a huge effort to dribble past Mahomet-Seymour's Savannah Orgeron down the baseline during their 2nd Annual Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament game on November 17. The three-sport senior for the Spartans was held scoreless as St. Joseph-Ogden fell to the 34-29 to the Bulldogs on the final day of the tournament.
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Top basketball players at St. Joseph Turkey Tournament earn recognition

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Nominees from the four-team Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament All-Tournament Team pose with their awards on Thursday, November 17. Pictured with their awards are Josie Armstrong (Tri-County), Kenzie Hales (Tri-County), Thaylee Barry (Tri-County), Durbin Thomas (M-S), Chloe Pruitt (M-S), Addison Frick (SJO), and Mahomet-Seymour's Savannah Orgeron, who was the tournament's Most-Valuable-Player. Champaign Centennial's Heaven Day, the 8th player of the group, was not present at the award ceremony.
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Turkey tournament starts Monday at SJO

St. Joseph-Ogden's Peyton Jones takes a shot during last November's first installment of SJO's first girls holiday basketball tournament. The Spartans will host the tournament once again with a new team this season. Photo: PhotoNews Media/Clark Brooks


ST. JOSEPH -- The girls' basketball season officially starts on Monday with SJO hosting the Second Annual Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament. Mahomet-Seymour joins the four-team, round-robin style tournament replacing Urbana High School.

Spartans fans can catch the varsity program on the hardwood this week on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings at approximately 7:30p as the team will battle to defend their 2021 title against Tri-County, Centennial and the Bulldogs from Mahomet-Seymour. The SJO JV team will play in the school's practice gym at 6 pm on all three nights.

This year's St. Joseph-Ogden varsity squad includes Sammy Uden, Addi Seggebruch, Olivia Baltzell, Katie Ericksen, Addison Frick, Taylor Hug, Kaytlyn Baker, Addie Brooks, Sara Kearney, Addy Martinie, Kayla Osterbur, and Ellie Ward.


2nd Annual
TOYOTA OF DANVILLE
TURKEY TOURNAMENT


Monday, November 14th
JV: SJO JV vs. Tri-County JV 6:00 PM (Practice Gym)
JV: Centennial JV vs. Mahomet-Seymour JV 7:30 PM (Practice Gym)
VARSITY: Centennial vs. Mahomet-Seymour 6:00 PM (Main Gym)
VARSITY: SJO vs. Tri-County 7:30 PM (Main Gym)

Tuesday, November 15th
JV: SJO JV vs. Centennial JV 6:00 PM (Practice Gym)
JV: Tri-County JV vs. Mahomet-Seymour JV 7:30 PM (Practice Gym)
VARSITY: Tri-County vs. Mahomet-Seymour 6:00 PM (Main Gym)
VARSITY: SJO vs. Centennial 7:30 PM (Main Gym)

Thursday, November 17th
JV: SJO JV vs. Mahomet-Seymour JV 6:00 PM (Practice Gym)
JV: Tri-County JV vs. Centennial JV 7:30 PM (Practice Gym)
VARSITY: Tri-County vs. Centennial 6:00 PM (Main Gym)
VARSITY: SJO vs. Mahomet-Seymour 7:30 PM (Main Gym)


Slideshow

Photo gallery from the Spartans' 2021 Turkey Tournament game against the Urbana Tigers.

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Spartans cruise past Chargers at Turkey Tournament

Ella Armstrong takes the ball to the hole
St. Joseph-Ogden's Ella Armstrong dribbles between Centennial's Aleah Emers and Kennedy Ramshaw on her way to the basket. Armstrong scored a game-high 18 points in the Spartans' third game of the season. See more photos from this game here.

St. Joseph -- St. Joseph-Ogden had 17 points on the scoreboard before the Centennial Chargers lit up digits on their side in the last 18 seconds of the first quarter with a couple of free throws during the third game of the Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament last Thursday. Building up a comfortable 25-6 first-half lead, the Spartans went on to a convincing 54-26 victory.

Senior Ella Armstrong scored eight points in the first half and ten in the second, finishing with a game-high 18 points.

Ashlyn Lannert had 11 points, Payton Jacob finished with eight, and Peyton Jones added another seven to round out the top three scorers for the Spartans (3-0).

"It's amazing. I'm so proud of our girls," said first-year SJO girls coach Drew Arteaga, who now coaches on the very same hardwood he played on himself as a Spartan. He was proud that his team won their inaugural girls' holiday tournament. "It happened because of all of their hard work."

The Chargers scoring effort was led by Mia Dejesus and Avery Loschen, both with nine points apiece. Centennial finished the tournament with a 1-2 record.


Box Score

St. Joseph-Ogden 54 - Centennial 26

St. Joseph-Ogden -
Lannert 11-0-11, Frick 2-0-2, Jacob 8-0-8, Wells 2-1-3, Jones 5-2-7, Martinie 0-1-1, Kearney 2-0-2, Armstrong 17-1-18.
Totals: 49-5-54

Centennial -
Ramshaw 4-0-4, Loschen 7-2-9, Dejesus 6-3-9, Yahnke 0-2-2, Emers 2-0-2
Totals: 19-7-26

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Turkey Tournament All-Tourney Team

Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament all-tournament team
Members of the first-ever Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament all-tournament team (left to right) Peyton Jones (St. Joseph-Ogden), Kennedi Ramshaw (Centennial), Gabrielle Mboyo-Meta (Urbana), Taylor Wells (SJO), Caroline Smith (Tri-County), Josie Armstrong (Tri-County), Ella Armstrong (SJO) and Bella Dudley (Tri-County) pose for a photo during the tournament awards ceremony on Thursday. Dudley was named the tournament MVP. St. Joseph-Ogden won the inaugural tournament title going 3-0 against the Tri-County Lady Titans, Urbana Tigers and the Chargers from Centennial High School.

PhotoNews Media/Clark Brooks
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Spartans win first annual Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament

St. Joseph-Ogden High School girls basketball players celebrate with their tournament championship title Thursday night in the high school Main Gym. The Spartans ran the table defeating Urbana High School, Tri-County and Champaign Centennial at the three-day holiday tournament, sponsored by Toyota of Danville, to win the very first girls' holiday basketball tournament held at SJO. More photos and game recaps coming soon.
PhotoNews Media/Clark Brooks
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Photo of the Day - November 18, 2021

Taking her best shot

Spartans Ashlyn Lannert takes a shot over Tigers' Gabrielle Mboyo-Meta during the first half of their Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament game on Monday. St. Joseph-Ogden defeated Urbana, 55-8. Both teams are in action again tonight at St. Joseph-Ogden High School. The Tigers (0-2) open the last evening of tournament play against 1-1 Tri-County at 6pm. SJO (2-0) squares off against the Chargers of Centennial High School 1-1 at 7:30pm. Follow this link to see more photos from Monday night's game in the PhotoNews Media photo vault.
PhotoNews Media/Clark Brooks
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Prep Sports Notebook: Armstrong leads SJO scoring at Turkey Tournament


Spartans get win #2

St. Joseph-Ogden's Ella Armstrong made all five of her free throws and drained a couple of threes to finish her second game of the season with a team-high 15 points in SJO's 43-34 win over Tri-County.

Peyton Jones also tallied double-figure scoring finishing the night with 10 points in game #2 at the Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament on Tuesday.

The Titans were paced by Josie Armstrong's 15 points and Bella Dudley's 11 points.

Both teams are back in action at Turkey Tournament with Tri-County taking on the Urbana Tigers and SJO finishing round-robin play against Champaign Centennial's Chargers.


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Photo of the Day - November 16, 2021

Urbana returns to the hardcourt
Under the watchful eyes referee Mark Brooks behind her, Tigers' junior Gabrielle Mboyo-Meta dribbles the ball down the court looking for a way around St. Joseph-Ogden's Kaytlyn Baker during the team's first game of the season. After four quarters, Urbana fell to the host Spartans at the Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament, 55-8.
Photo: PhotoNews Media/Clark Brooks
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SJO to host first girls' holiday basketball tournament next week

SJO senior Taylor Wells
Taylor Wells shoots a free throw during Spartans' regional title game against Villa Grove. The senior and Mount Mercy University commit will tip-off her final season with SJO in tournament play starting on November 15 on her home court. Photo: PhotoNews Media/Clark Brooks
Next week, St. Joseph-Ogden High School will host a three-day girls' holiday basketball tournament. Sponsored by a Danville area car dealer, the 2021 Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament will feature four teams, both varsity and junior varsity squads for an early-season holiday basketball competition.

The inaugural field of competition is formed by teams from Champaign Centennial, the hosts SJO, Tri-County and Urbana.

With four contests each day, all games will be played at the high school. The varsity games will be played in the main gym with JV teams battling it out in the high school's practice gym.

St. Joseph-Ogden, under new, first-year head coach Drew Arteaga, will face the Urbana Tigers tournament and season opener on Monday.


2021 Toyota of Danville Turkey Tournament Schedule

Monday, November 15th, 2021
JV: SJO JV vs. Urbana JV 6:00 PM (Practice Gym)
JV: Centennial JV vs. Tri-County JV 7:30 PM (Practice Gym)

VARSITY: Centennial vs. Tri-County 6:00 PM (Main Gym)
VARSITY: SJO vs. Urbana 7:30 PM (Main Gym)

Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
JV: SJO JV vs. Tri-County JV 6:00 PM (Practice Gym)
JV: Urbana JV vs. Centennial JV 7:30 PM (Practice Gym)

VARSITY: Urbana vs. Centennial 6:00 PM (Main Gym)
VARSITY: SJO vs. Tri-County 7:30 PM (Main Gym)

Thursday, November 18th, 2021
JV: SJO JV vs. Centennial JV 6:00 PM (Practice Gym)
JV: Tri-County JV vs. Urbana JV 7:30 PM (Practice Gym)

VARSITY: Tri-County vs. Urbana 6:00 PM (Main Gym)
VARSITY: SJO vs. Centennial 7:30 PM (Main Gym)

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