GODFREY – Saturday evening's Atrium Hotel Great Rivers Shootout match-up between Jennings and Alton may not go down as the prettiest game in basketball history.
But the Redbirds and coach Bob Rickman will certainly take the outcome of it any day of the week.
Thanks to a 27-point effort from LaJarvia Brown, the Redbirds got back in the win column as they took a 48-45 win over the Warriors in the fourth game of the five-game card.
“A win is a win is a win,” Rickman said. “I think the learning process for, still, a relatively young team, outside of Jewel (Wagner) and LaJarvia, shows there. We had some bad shot selection, some bad decisions; we've got to have people make better decisions. I thought what really hurt us was people who I thought people who I thought were capable of making better decisions just didn't do it. That's something we've got to figure out.