The Galesburg Silver Streaks girls basketball team won their second game on Saturday for the Coles County Holiday Tournament. The Streaks put on a great defense performance in the first half allowing just 8 points to the host Mattoon and would ride that for a 56-27 victory. After a season high seventh straight victory, Galesburg is now 13-1 on the season and improve to 2-0 in the tournament.
Galesburg was led in scoring by Zaniyah Carter who had 16. Jozalyn Kilgore was the other Streak in double-figures with 10. Keerah Cooper had 6 points and 3 rebounds while adding a block as she was given the Dave's Auto Body Crunch Time Player of the Game for her fourth quarter performance. The Silver Streaks went 24 of 45 from the field, 3 of 9 from deep, and a perfect 5 for 5 from the free throw line. They finished with 29 rebounds, 12 assists, and 20 turnovers.
The Streaks will continue tournament play tomorrow. Mitch McVey will have the call starting with the pregame at 12:45pm on 93.7 FM and 1400 AM WGIL and wgil.com.