Illinois
Illinois Basketball: Trent Frazier is officially a professional basketball player
The Illinois basketball staff has one other participant who’s getting into the skilled ranks.
Among the greatest Illini gamers within the historical past of this system have gone to a distinct nation to play their post-college basketball. A superb instance is Brian Randle. He performed eight seasons of basketball in a distinct nation, and now he’s an assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns.
Illinois basketball has a well-known face who’s getting into the skilled ranks in a distinct nation. On Friday night time, it was introduced that Trent Frazier had signed on with FMP Meridian of the Adriatic League in Europe. This was a two-year cope with the financials not disclosed.
Plejmejker @trentfrazier (23, 188cm) prvo je pojačanje KK FMP Meridian za sezonu 2022/2023. Levoruki plejmejker koga odlikuje sjajna igra u defanzivni dolazi sa koledža Ilinois gde je nastupao u prethodne 4 sezone.
✍️Opširnije: https://t.co/r3ahdNFuzj#kkfmp #panteri pic.twitter.com/bHbYS1cXTF
— KK FMP Meridian (@BCFMP) June 10, 2022
It’s thrilling to get one other former Illini into the skilled ranks. He now joins fairly a number of Illinois gamers corresponding to Ayo Dosunmu and Andres Feliz, simply to call a number of of his former teammates.
FMP Meridian is getting a playmaker in former Illinois basketball guard Trent Frazier.
This was an excellent signing by FMP Meridian as a result of Frazier can do all the pieces you’d need on a basketball courtroom.
4 out of the 5 seasons he was with Illinois, Frazier averaged over 10 factors per recreation. He hit his profession highs with 4.1 assists and a pair of.8 rebounds per recreation this previous season as nicely. Frazier isn’t simply concerning the offensive aspect of the courtroom both. He was probably the greatest defenders within the nation, and he averaged over 1.2 steals per recreation in 4 out of the 5 seasons in faculty.
Will probably be fascinating to see how a lot Frazier impacts FMP Meridian in 12 months one. This was a 14-12 group final season, which was adequate to barely sneak into the playoffs. They have been swept within the first spherical by 19-7 Buducnost.
Including a participant like Frazier ought to assist the staff tremendously. There are three areas I consider Frazier may also help this staff. The primary space is protection. I see Frazier coming in and being a defensive stopper for this staff. The second space is distributing the basketball. FMP Meridian ranked No. 9 within the ABA League with 16.6 assists per recreation. That quantity ought to rise.
The ultimate space I see Frazier making the most important impression is in three-point taking pictures. As a staff, FMP Meridian shot simply 31.8% from three-point vary. In three out of the 5 seasons Frazier was in faculty, he hit not less than 36.2% of his three-point pictures. He was a profession 35.1% three-point shooter for the Illini as nicely.
I’m extraordinarily completely satisfied for Frazier and what the long run holds for the gifted guard. He was a fan favourite whereas at Illinois, and that isn’t going to alter simply because he has left. We’ll all be watching his journey by way of the basketball ranks.
Illinois
One killed in southern Illinois crash involving a garbage truck
By West Kentucky Star Staff
Jul. 07, 2024 | 04:58 PM
| WILLIAMSON COUNTY
A crash that involved a garbage truck shortly before noon Saturday in Hurst claimed one life.
The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office says their preliminary investigation shows that a garbage truck was traveling south on Illinois 149, when the driver lost control and collided with an SUV traveling in the northbound lane.
The driver of the SUV was pronounced dead at the scene.
Names of those involved have not yet been released, and the accident reconstruction investigation is continuing.
Illinois
Police nab Colorado man who fled La Salle traffic stop
A Colorado man who fled a La Salle traffic stop Saturday morning has been apprehended, the La Salle County Sheriff’s Office reported Sunday.
Details still are emerging, but Sheriff Adam Diss said Sunday he was alerted Austin Moon was apprehended on a bicycle near Interstate 80. Illinois state police troopers located him and placed him into custody.
Authorities have not released at this time what charges Moon may face. The charges are under review.
La Salle County sheriff’s deputies had issued an alert Saturday morning, asking for the public to watch for a white man who fled police during a stop on Interstate 80 near East Fifth Road (the Troy Grove blacktop). Nearby Rotary Park was closed to the public but was later reopened.
“The police department does not believe there is any threat to the public at this time,” the alert said.
Shaw Local News Network will update the story as more information becomes available.
Illinois
Illinois driver repeats as Gopher 50 champion
(Editor’s note: This story will be updated later tonight with more details.)
SPRING VALLEY — The Gopher 50 charity Late Model race has been held in southeastern Minnesota for the past 42 years.
Only three times prior to Saturday had a driver won the prestigious race — promoted since its inception by the Blooming Prairie Lions Club — in consecutive years.
Make that four times.
Oakwood, Ill., Late Model driver Bobby Pierce left the 3/8-mile high-banked dirt track on Saturday night the same way he left it a year ago — $50,000 richer.
Saturday, Pierce beat a star-studded and talented field to win the Gopher 50 A Main and join Steve Kosiski (1981-82), Billy Moyer (2000-01) and Darrell Lanigan (2013-15) as the only drivers to win the main feature at the Gopher in consecutive years.
Brandon Sheppard (the 2019 Gopher 50 champion), Tyler Erb, Ryan Gustin and Nick Hoffman rounded out the top five finishers.
Rochester native Dustin Sorensen finished 11th, after starting 17th.
• Jake O’Neil captured the 35-lap USRA Modifieds A Main on Saturday night.
Hayfield’s Brandon Davis finished as the runner-up, while Jake Timm (Winona), Joe Chisholm (Osage, Iowa) and Rodney Sanders (Happy, Texas) rounded out the top five in the 30-car field.
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