John A. Logan women's basketball is wrapping up their summer practice session this week. Coach Charlie Jones sat down with Matt Varney to discuss how the team, that is mostly comprised of freshmen, is coming together, his returning sophomores stepping up and improving, and more!
Matt Varney sat down with the new coach of the Pinckneyville Panthers, Matt Laur, on Friday - just days after the former Freeburg coach was hired by the Pinckneyville school board as their next Athletic Director, Dean of Students, and head boys' basketball coach. They covered a variety of topics including the history of Pinckneyville basketball, how daunting is it to step in to the role of Panthers head coach, his son Ty who will join the team, how he plans to run the team, and a whole lot more:
The Vienna Eagles were selected as the Team of the Week in Week 10 of the season after a huge win over Christopher. Matt Varney caught up with Eagles coach Steve Dreher last week when presenting the team with their award and talked about the season and the transforming culture in the Vienna program:
Du Quoin has a tough opponent this week in the second round of the IHSA 3A Playoffs, they travel to annual powerhouse #9 Tolono (Unity) Saturday. Matt Varney and Du Quoin head coach Logan Spain discussed this week's matchup and the win over #16 Monticello last week.
