In games heard on TALK 101 FM, The Millikin ladies defeated Carthage 71-61 in their season finale at the Griswold Center in Decatur. Senior Alyssa Saklak led the Big Blue with 19 points in her final game. The Big Blue men lost 78-69 in the nite cap to Carthage. T.J. Simms was the leading scorer for Millikin with 19 points.
The Fighting Illini men’s basketball team travels to Madison, Wisconsin to take on the Wisconsin Badgers Sunday night at 6:30 PM.
The Daytona 500 is Sunday at Noon signalling the beginning of the NASCAR racing season. You can hear the roar of the engines on your home for NASCAR, GRIZ FM 98.1. Chase Elliot grabbed the pole position in the #24 car formerly driven by the now-retired Jeff Gordon. Matt Kenseth sits next to Elliot in the front row.