BELLEVILLE – When you see Alton's basketball team perform, you know exactly what you're going to get.
A lot of high-intensity, high-pressure, up-and-down, fast-moving basketball.
All those elements were on display in Belleville Friday night as the Redbirds kept flooring the gas pedal and defeated Belleville West 73-58.
The game served as a bounce-back game for the Redbirds as well coming off a Southwestern Conference loss to Belleville East at home Tuesday night. “We're still 4-1 in the league,” Redbird coach Eric Smith said. “We're still in good position; we let a game slip away we probably had an opportunity to win, but our kids responded. We got a resilient group of kids and they showed tonight what we've been preaching to them, and they came back and did a nice job.”