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Boys basketball: Colmone Classic resumes with three games tonight

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SPRING VALLEY - After a day of rest, the Colmone Classic returns to the hardwood tonight at Hall High School.

There will be three games on tap.

Marquette will play its first game of the tournament against Bureau Valley (0-1) at 5 p.m.

Rock Falls also makes its debut against St. Bede (0-1) at 6:30 p.m.

Princeton (0-1) will meet Putnam County (0-0) in the nightcap at 8 p.m.e

The tournament continues each night this week through Saturday’s finals.

Saturday’s scores

Mendota beat Pontiac, 65-64

LaSalle-Peru beat Bureau Valley, 64-37

Fieldcrest beat Princeton, 61-56

Hall beat St. Bede, 52-43

Pool standings

GRAY POOL: Fieldcrest 1-0, Putnam County 0-0, Princeton 0-1

RED POOL Hall 1-0, Rock Falls 0-0, St. Bede 0-1

BLACK POOL: LaSalle-Peru 1-0, Marquette 0-0, Bureau Valley 0-1

WHITE POOL: Mendota 1-0, Stillman Valley 0-0, Pontiac 0-1

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 contributor for the St. Louis Cardinals magazine. He is a 2021 inductee into the IBCA Hall of Fame (Media) and a 2023 inductee into the Illinois Valley Hall of Fame as "Distinguished Media"