For their second straight game in the Western Big 6 Conference, the Galesburg Silver Streaks boys basketball team featured the 'Keigen Crummer Show'. Coming off a career-high 25 points in a win over Quincy Friday night, senior Keigen Crummer backed it up by nearly matching it in the 1st half alone with 24 points, and went on to finish with a new career-high 33 points as Galesburg beat the Sterling Golden Warriors Tuesday night, 72 - 49.
Head Coach Taylor Thiel was very happy with how Crummer just took control of the game early on and made a statement, as Galesburg built a 21 point halftime lead. During his post game conversation with Brad Bennewitz and Jason Wessels on WGIL, Coach Thiel commented, "He was outstanding. He came out on a mission. Once he got going, give him the ball and let him go. He was getting downhill and they couldn't stay in front of him. We were out and running, got a lot of pressure up front, and got a lot of tipped balls which got us into transition and Keigen went to work. Another solid performance."
For the second game in a row, Keigen Crummer was named the Dave's Auto Body Crunch Time Player of the Game. In addition to the career-high 33 points, he finished with 4 rebounds, 2 assists, and 5 steals. Keigen joined Bennewitz and Wessels for a conversation during the postgame on WGIL:
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Cesaire Bile finished in double figures for the Silver Streaks as well with 10 points, Eden Mayala had 8 and led the Streaks in rebounding, both Tobi Kivunina and Rahkim McCellan finished with 6, and Grady Hickey scored 5 points. Overall, Galesburg shot 27 of 57 from the field, 6 of 14 from 3-point range, and 12 of 18 from the free throw line. They grabbed 32 rebounds, had 9 assists, and committed only 8 turnovers while forcing 17 turnovers by Sterling. It's the second straight game for the Streaks with less than 10 turnovers.
Galesburg improves to 17 - 11 on the season and 6 - 6 in the Western Big 6.
Moline comes to town for Senior Night on Friday at John Thiel Gym. Tune in for all of the senior recognition ceremony as part of the pregame coverage starting at 6:40pm on 93.7 FM and 1400 AM WGIL and wgil.com.
