Seventeen high schools are expected to be represented in the 2006 North Central Missouri College Foundation sponsored High School Holiday Shoot-out scheduled for Dec. 27-29 in Trenton.
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Boys and girls teams from throughout northern and mid-Missouri will bring outstanding high school basketball to the Ketcham Community Center for three days. Schools contracted to compete include: Chillicothe, Gilman City, Green City, Hale, Higginsville, Lawson, New Cambria, Monroe City, Newtown-Harris, North Mercer, Plattsburg, Princeton, Putnam County, Richmond, Ridgeway, Trenton and Tri-County of Jamesport.
Of this number, 16 schools will field boys teams while 13 schools will be bringing girls basketball squads.
As in the past, the shoot-out format will be used. This type of event does not allow teams to advance in play to a winner’s or loser’s bracket, and as a result, an overall champion in not selected. Schools do not have to anticipate a winner or loser for further play and teams may play up or down in school size as classes ranging from 1A through 3A are involved in this year’s event.
A Shoot-Out committee has worked since the 2005 event was held to improve this year’s event and the change from two to three days is the greatest change, as well as games played all day long and into the evening, said NCMC Foundation Director Steve Maxey.
The event committee includes Wendell Lenhart, Steve Busch, Brent Wyant, Steve Ockenfels, George Moore, Allen Berry, and Maxey.
College Foundation officials say the event was organized last year to assist in marketing the community college to prospective students and their families, to generate financial support to the College Foundation, to present an opportunity to generate economic benefit to the community, and to schedule outstanding high school basketball during the holiday season for the entire region to enjoy.