Illinois High School Basketball Hall of Fame announces first induction class

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and there's a few familiar names...(strange there's been so little coverage of this..)

"The Illinois High School Basketball Hall of Fame and Museum .... official announcement of the first class of superstar inductees.

This momentous occasion will lead into the Hall of Fame and Museum's Inaugural Induction Ceremony, to be held on November 5 at 6:00 p.m. at the Colonnades Club inside Memorial Stadium on the University of Illinois campus.

The 2011 Illinois High School Basketball Hall of Fame...(this list is only a partial list - see link)
Ron Bontemps (Taylorville)
Lou Boudreau (Harvey Thornton)
Dave Downey (Canton)
Paul Judson (Hebron)
Bobby Joe Mason (Centralia)
Don Ohl (Edwardsville) (Illinois & Peoria Caterpillars)
Jerry Sloan (McLeansboro)

Mark Aguirre (Chicago Westinghouse)
Nick Anderson (Chicago Prosser/Simeon)
Quinn Bucker (Dolton Thornridge)
Bruce Douglas (Quincy)
LaPhonso Ellis (East St. Louis Lincoln)
Kevin Garnett (Chicago Farragut)
Dan Issel (Batavia)
Marcus Liberty (Chicago King)
Howard Nathan (Peoria Manual)
Glenn (Doc) Rivers (Maywood Proviso East)
Cazzie Russell (Chicago Carver)
Marty Simmons (Lawrenceville)
Isiah Thomas (Westchester St. Joseph)


Nora Lewis (Peoria Richwoods)

http://www.duquoin.com/sports/x1800185979/BASKETBALL-Illinois-High-School-Basketball-Hall-of-Fame-announces-inaugural-induction-class

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Along this topic -- I will offer a couple trivia questions....

There are some other Illinois high school basketball players who are not on this list of HOF inductees that put up some pretty good numbers in college..

So here's the trivia question....


-name the Illinois high schooler who played basketball in Illinois then went on
to college and holds the RECORD for the most points scored in college of
any Illinois high schooler?

-also - name the kid who played high school basketball in Illinois who scored
2616 points in college and also holds the RECORD for the MOST 3-pointers
scored in college of any kid who played his high school basketball in Illinois.(444)

The first one will be easy - the 2nd will not..........

[Da Coach]

THe first question is mucH too easy.

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That is right -- Hersey Hawkins is the answer to the first part --
the other kid played basketball in high school here in Peoria about 20 years ago -- he went to college out of state and had a prolific scoring career with 444 3-pointers
(for comparison Jeremy Crouch ended his career with 262 and Andrew Warren finished with 225),
He played in the NBA and has an NBA Championship ring to show for it.

In fact he is the FIRST person to have played high school ball in Peoria that subsequently played in the NBA and it is NOT Howard Nathan

[Toyota12]

shooter

I did not see Jay Shidler's name on that list. Lawrenceville Indians!! Averaged 32 a game with no 3 point line!!

[Toyota12]

3 pointers

A.J.Guyton?

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I did not see Jay Shidler's name on that list. Lawrenceville Indians!! Averaged 32 a game with no 3 point line!!

Jay Shidler's name is on the list being inducted...
"Jay Shidler (Lawrenceville)..."

http://www.duquoin.com/sports/x1800185979/BASKETBALL-Illinois-High-School-Basketball-Hall-of-Fame-announces-inaugural-induction-class

and the guy I am hinting at is a player who only played one varsity season of basketball in the Peoria area in '89-'90 -- and he is not well known....
BUT -- his family then moved back to California, he attended a small NAIA college and was their all time scoring leader...
playing two seasons in the NBA with Shaq & Kobe on the Lakers and holding an NBA Championship ring from 2001...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Penberthy

http://hometownstation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23592:mike-penberthy-masters-college-lakers-2011-02-22-14-09-00&catid=26:local-news&Itemid=97

http://www.masters.edu/la-lakers-champion-alumnus-of-the-master%27s-college-honored.aspx

Mike played one year at Peoria Christian HS

http://genforum.genealogy.com/penberthy/messages/54.html