Tonight in girls basketball The 3-2 Barr Reeve Lady Vikings of Coach Lacey Higgins host 0-6 Pike Central after a solid win at Springs Valley on Tuesday night. Listen to Voice of the Vikings Mike DeCoursey and myself on the General 95.9 and 101.3fm.
Other area games Bloomfield faces off against Vincennes Rivet, Tell City visits Southridge, Eastern Greene goes to Linton Stockton and Castle travels to Jasper
AREA GIRLS BASKETBALL SCORES FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT
South Knox 44 (5-3) at Sullivan 32 (5-4)
GIRLS BASKETBALL ICGSA POLLS
1A
9. Northeast Dubois (6-2)
10. Vincennes Rivet (4-2)
2A
1. Forest Park (7-1)
14. Linton-Stockton (7-0)
3A
8. Gibson Southern (4-1)
BOYS BASKETBALL AP Poll
1A:
Bloomfield 1
Barr Reeve 3
Loogootee 9
2A:
Linton-Stockton 1
South Knox 15
3A
North Daviess 6
1956 American Mildred McDaniel jumps world record 5.4 feet to win the women’s high jump gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics; For reference 6 foot 10 in is the current womens world record set in 1987
1956 Led by future Basketball Hall of Famers Bill Russell and K.C. Jones, the US wins it’s 4th consecutive Olympic gold medal with an 89-55 victory over the Soviet Union at the Melbourne Games
1981 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passes Oscar Robertson (26,710) to become the NBA’s second all-time leading scorer behind Wilt Chamberlain; scores 14 points in 117-86 Lakers’ win over Utah Jazz in Los Angeles
