Friday night, the Galesburg boys basketball team closed out a tough stretch of home games in the Western Big 6 with about as difficult of a loss as they could imagine. The Silver Streaks lost a 10-point second half lead and falling down the stretch to the United Township Panthers, 46 - 43. Galesburg is now 4 - 2 overall and 1 - 2 in the Western Big 6.
Probably the biggest story of the game that went against Galesburg was ten 4th quarter turnovers and 21 total for the game. In fact when the Streaks had the ball with a chance to tie the score with a 3-pointer at the end of the game, they turned it over on that possession and never got off a shot. Only seven total 4th quarter shots for the Silver Streaks as the Panthers rallied and outscored them by nine points to win it by three.
Galesburg's only player in double-figures was Cesaire Bile with 11 points. Stone Thiel was named the Dave's Auto Body Crunch Time Player of the Game. He finished with 9 points and two huge baskets in the 4th quarter. One was a three-pointer off balance from the top of the circle that got Galesburg within one when they were down four points. And then a 2-point basket on an in-bound play that tied the game. But the Streaks did not score again after that.
Up next for the Silver Streaks is Burlington at home Tuesday night. Brad Bennewitz and Jason Wessels will bring you the action starting with the pregame at 7:10pm on 93.7 FM and 1400 AM WGIL as well as wgil.com.
