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For Immediate Release
Nov. 17, 2009
Eureka Opens Men's Basketball Season Wednesday Night
EUREKA, Ill. – The Eureka College men’s basketball team will open the 2009-10 season Wednesday night, visiting Rockford for a 7 p.m. tipoff. Third-year head coach Chip Wilde and the Red Devils will look to build upon a 12-13 record from a year ago.
Eureka returns a trio of starters from last season’s squad that finished fifth in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference with a 9-7 record. Senior forward Michael Zasada (McHenry, Ill./McHenry H.S.) returns as the only four-year player on the roster and averaged 14.4 points and 9.3 rebounds per game as a junior last season on his way to an All-SLIAC First Team selection. He also shot a team-best 40.6 percent from three-point range.
Senior guard/forward Kameron Bell (Clinton, Ill./Clinton H.S./Carl Sandburg) also returns to the Eureka starting lineup. Bell wasted little time making an impact last season after transferring from Carl Sandburg, starting 17 games and finishing as the second-leading scorer with 13.1 points per game. He was an All-SLIAC Honorable Mention choice.
Sophomore Jordan Kindred (Chrisman, Ill./Chrisman H.S.) will direct the Eureka offense from the point guard position after a solid freshman season. He dished out a team-best 70 assists in 24 starts during his first collegiate season and shot 75.0 percent from the foul line, the highest mark among Eureka’s seven returning players.
Wilde will welcome three junior college transfers and six true freshmen for a total of nine newcomers this winter, his largest class of recruits since taking the reins of the men’s basketball program in the fall of 2007.
Eureka benefited from a three-game Canadian exhibition trip last month. The Red Devils went 1-2 with a victory over St. Clair College during their trip to Ontario, the first foreign tour taken in program history.
Following Wednesday’s opener at Rockford, the Red Devils will play two more road contests at Eastern Illinois (Nov. 21, 6 p.m.) and Monmouth (Nov. 25, 7 p.m.) before opening the home portion of their schedule at the Reagan Center on Saturday, Nov. 28 against Concordia (Ill.) at 3 p.m. Eureka opens the 16-game SLIAC schedule Dec. 2 at MacMurray.
Fans interested in following live stats of Wednesday night's game in Rockford can visit http://livestats.rockford.edu at 7 p.m.
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For More Information Contact:
Bryan Moore
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