The 2023 Great Western Shootout will be held on Saturday at Abingdon-Avon High School. The long-running shootout schedule will contain match ups of teams from around the area, as well as several teams from around the state. Starting the day at 9 am, the Knoxville Blue Bullets will match up with the Canton Little Giants. Following that game the 7-2 Monmouth-Roseville Titans will look to improve their winning streak to 3 games with a match against Augusta/Southeastern. At noon the 7-3 Macomb Bomber boys basketball team will take on 5-6 Argenta-Oreana, out of the Decatur area. Next up on the schedule will be a battle of former Olympic Conference rivals as Sherrard and Farmington meet in the 1:30 game. Scales Mound will take the 2 and a half hour bus ride south for a game against the Fulton Steamers at 3:00, while Illini Bluffs and Rockridge will meet in a game of state-ranked squads at 4:30. The Tigers and Rockets come into that game with just 3 combined losses. Wrapping up the long day of basketball, the host A-Town boys and girls will hit the floor for the final two games. At 6:00, the Tornadoes boys will take on Payson-Seymour, while the Tornadoes girls will wrap up the night with a game against the Macomb Lady Bombers at 7:30.
Athletic Director at A-Town Reid Kelso has more information about the big day of basketball at Tornado Alley.
We will have three games from the Great Western Shootout live on the air on the Prairie Communication Sports Network. Monmouth-Roseville vs Augusta/Southeastern will go live on Sunny 97.7 WMOI beginning with the pregame show at 10:15, while both the A-Town boys and girls games will be on AM 1330/FM 95.7 WRAM starting with the A-Town boys pregame show at around 5:45. All games can also be listened to live online at our website, radiomonmouth.com.
