Ryan Stipanovich/Elijah Childs tracker

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Elijah Childs/Lee's Summit play tonight at Blue Springs South HS **

Final
Lee's Summit West 71 - Blue Springs South 44 - LSW goes to 4-0


from earlier yesterday, Lee's Summit West moves up to #3 in the State in the largest class CLASS 5

http://www.kmzu.com/high-school-basketball-mbca-poll-2-as-of-1214/

Story mentioning Elijah Childs and their upcoming tourney after Christmas, starting next Monday

http://www.smithvilleherald.com/sports/warriors-open-second-half-of-season-at-holiday-classic/article_16a6ed50-f09f-5e7b-b744-e4efac8478a0.html

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DeSmet loses to St. Louis UHigh 61-51
DeSmet drops to 3-3
Ryan Stipanovich had 14 pts, 5 rebs, 2 asst, 2 steals, 1 blk

current averages after 6 games, per newspaper web site - LINK
18.2 ppg, 60.7 fg%, 35.7 3-ptfg%, 76.9 FT%, 8.2 rpg, 3.5 apg, 1.3 blk/gm 1 spg ***

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Upcoming games:


Ryan Stipanovich
12/27 - 12/30 DeSmet plays four games in the Meramec Tournament at Meremac Community College
Then on Tuesday 1/03/2017 they play a rescheduled (makeup) game at Rock Bridge that was cancelled due to weather back on Dec. 16

Elijah Childs
12/26 - 12/30 Lee's Summit plays 3 games in the William Jewell Holiday Tournament
...Lee's Summitt (5-0) is a #1 seed in the tourney - LINK -- LINK -- Tournament web site
I/06/2017 Lee's Summit hosts Blue Springs at 7pm

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1st game of Elijah Childs' tourney - is the game that determines their opponent tomorrow...
end of 3rd quarter Oak Park leads Rockhurst 47-39

update- 5-seed Oak Park beats 4-seed Rockhurst 67-58
(So that determines that if Lee's Summit wins today, they play Oak Park Thursday at 7:30pm,
and if the lose they play Rockhurst tomorrow at noon. Championship & 3rd place games are Friday at 5:30pm & 2pm respectively)

Lee's Summit West's game starts in about 1/2 hour


DeSmet's game is at 6:30pm today

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Lee's Summit West (6-0) wins handily in their first game 65-31 over Smithville (they led 32-18 at half)
..they advance to the tourney semi's on Thursday at 7:30pm vs. Oak Park

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This is great info. Thanks.

Sounds like these guys aren't playing slouch opponents either.

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both schools are MHSAA Class 5 - the largest of all class sizes in Missouri
I think one difference is that Elijah Childs has other DI talent on his team while Ryan really does not....
This site ranks Lee's Summit West as the #2 team in the State of Missouri (Class 5) while their MBCA (Missouri Basketball Coaches Association) statewide polling has them at #3


Here's the list of all the Class 5 schools in Missouri

https://www.mshsaa.org/Activities/ClassAndDistrictAssignments.aspx?alg=5&class=5#District6

it won't happen but I'd love to see Lee's Summit West in a tourney with some of the top big schools from Chicago & elsewhere in Illinois


..found some stats from the first game in that William Jewell Tourney...
Lee's Summit's next opponent on Thursday, Oak Park had a couple solid performances...
Ochai Agbaji had 30 pts (getting mid-major attention)and Jhaidyn Richardson 14 pts/9 rebs

..can't find any stats yet for Elijah's team

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DeSmet's game is at 6:30pm today

DeSmet beat Parkway West 51-43 to improve to 4-3
Ryan Stipanovich had 15 pts - Parkway's star Wyatt Yess - Yale commit - had 18

http://stats.stlhighschoolsports.com/sports/basketballboys/stats/boxscore.php?s=693&e=553770

Highlights - scroll to about 20 seconds in to see Ryan score

http://stats.stlhighschoolsports.com/sports/basketballboys/stats/boxscore.php?s=693&e=553770

#10 seed DeSmet now plays tonight at 8pm against the #2 seed Webster Groves
Webster Groves has a kid named Courtney Ramey that is an uncommitted 4-5-Star, Nationally Top 40 (#29 per Rivals & #19 per scout.com) ranked player in Class of 2018 - he just visited Illinois

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/high-school/boys-basketball/vianney-knocks-off-jennings-draws-rival-sluh-webster-cruises-past/article_a8da54c4-ccae-11e6-86df-27c44cee38fa.html

In Lee's Summit West's 65-31 win yesterday, Elijah Childs had 10 pts

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/scores-stats/article123251119.html

http://www.smithvilleherald.com/sports/boys-basketball-drops-opener-at-william-jewell-holiday-tournament/article_ac06e502-ea7c-52d2-935c-94f85632cea2.htmlhttp://www.smithvilleherald.com/sports/boys-basketball-drops-opener-at-william-jewell-holiday-tournament/article_ac06e502-ea7c-52d2-935c-94f85632cea2.html

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#10 seed DeSmet now plays tonight at 8pm against the #2 seed Webster Groves..

DeSmet played a good game but came up short 75-65 and fall to 4-4
Ryan Stipanovich had 16 pts

http://www.stltoday.com/sports/high-school/boys-basketball/webster-groves-survives-takes-on-sluh-in-semifinal-showdown/article_65aac61a-cd81-11e6-8117-0704ea77cdb0.html

DeSmet now plays Vianney HS tonight at 5pm -LINK

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Lee's Summit West (7-0) wins Thursday - 66-47 over Oak Park and now plays for the Championship
Elijah Childs had a pretty good game with 23 pts and 10 rebounds

One in-game comment
"Bradley commit Elijah Childs is dominating this game on both ends right now"

https://twitter.com/cbMullenSports/status/814653979544186880

Lee's Summit West now plays at 5:30pm Friday vs. Park Hill for the Championship

DeSmet (5-4) wins 52-49 and now play 4:30pm Friday for 5th place vs. CBC (Christian Brothers) in this 16-team tournament - LINK
Ryan Stipanovich's averages 18 ppg/7 rpg

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Lee's Summitt & DeSmet both playing important tourney games and both starting right about now at 5-5:30pm

DeSmet plays CBC for 5th place in the 16-team Coaches vs. Cancer Tournament at Meremac College - LINK

Lee's Summit West plays Park Hill for the Championship of the William Jewell Tournament



edit- update...
DeSmet trails 20-13 at end of 1st quarter

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close at half
CBC 30 - DeSmet 27


...update
CBC 46
DeSmet 40
after 3 qtrs

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DeSmet loses 57-52, drop to 5-5

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Lee's Summit West (8-0) wins 71-48 to take their tourney title

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don't have the stats yet for today's games...
but last night's DeSmet game- Ryan Stipanovich went for 21 pts, 5 rebs
still avg 18 ppg, 8 rpg


Elijah Childs had a double-double with 10 pts/11 reb in tonight's game *
"Lee’s Summit West coach Michael Schieber ....“I talk to him (junior Mario Goodrich) and Elijah (Childs) a lot about leadership for our group. I thought those two stepped up and were very big for us tonight.”
Pictures:

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/high-school/8dj3o/picture123910804/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/Jewell%20Tourney%20al%20123016%2000

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/high-school/wppu78/picture123910814/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/Jewell%20Tourney%20al%20123016%2002

Games this week:

Lee's Summit West:
Friday 1/6/2017 7 PM at home vs. Blue Springs

DeSmet:
Tuesday 1/3/2017 7:30 PM Rock Bridge-RESCHEDULED at Rock Bridge
Friday 1/6/2017 7:00 PM vs. St. Louis U. High at De Smet Jesuit