A senior season in which Paige Munds scored over 1,000 points and was named Most Valuable Player of the Eldorado Mid-Winter Classic was bookended by being named Captain of the Black Diamond All-Conference East Team.
Joining Munds on the All-Conference Team was junior Lexie Mitchell and sophomore Lily Mosby.
As a senior, Munds led Eldorado to a 25-4 season, including winners of their last 17 games before a regional semifinal loss to Anna-Jonesboro.
Munds averaged 12.85 points per game, 3.3 rebounds per game, 2.8 steals and 1.2 turnovers. This season, Munds scored 360 points and became a member of the schools 1,000 point club. She grabbed 92 rebounds, had 79 steals and 34 turnovers.
Munds was named to All-Tournament Teams at the Harrisburg Invitational, Fairfield Merry Mule Christmas Tournament, and she was named MVP of the Eldorado Mid-Winter Tournament.
Mitchell averaged 13.1 points per game, while leading the Eagles in scoring, and she averaged 4.7 rebounds per game, 2.7 steals and she averaged two turnovers per game. Mitchell was All-Tournament at Harrisburg and the Eldorado Mid-Winter Classic.
Mosby averaged 10.7 points per game, 6.8 rebounds, 1.3 steals and was all-tournament at the Mid-Winter Classic.
Hamilton County's Grace Lueke, who has signed to play softball at SIU-Edwardsville, averaged 16 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals for a 26-7 Foxes team that lost in the regional semifinals to Benton. Lueke finished her career with 1,200 points.
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Grace Lueke SR Hamilton County MVP
Paige Munds SR Eldorado Captain
Lexi Mitchell JR Eldorado
Sydney Lucas SR Carmi-White Co.
Leah Bowers JR Fairfield
Kolby Brake SR Hamilton Co.
Caelyn Nelson SR Edwards Co
Kylie Stewart JR Fairfield
Lily Mosby SO Eldorado
Jenna Schnepper JR Edwards Co.
Black Diamond All-Conference Team (West)
Destiny Williams Chester MVP
Payton Sopczak Goreville Captain
Addison Bent Vienna
Peyton Wilder man SVW
Sam Cottom Trico
Emma Rush Vienna
Sam Licka Goreville
Kelsey Ray Goreville
Reese Chandler Chester
Carlie Page SVW
Black Diamond All-Conference Team (East)
Grace Lueke SR Hamilton County MVP
Paige Munds SR Eldorado Captain
Lexi Mitchell JR Eldorado
Sydney Lucas SR Carmi-White Co.
Leah Bowers JR Fairfield
Kolby Brake SR Hamilton Co.
Caelyn Nelson SR Edwards Co
Kylie Stewart JR Fairfield
Lily Mosby SO Eldorado
Jenna Schnepper JR Edwards Co.
Black Diamond All-Conference Team (West)
Destiny Williams Chester MVP
Payton Sopczak Goreville Captain
Addison Bent Vienna
Peyton Wilder man SVW
Sam Cottom Trico
Emma Rush Vienna
Sam Licka Goreville
Kelsey Ray Goreville
Reese Chandler Chester
Carlie Page SVW
