Chester advances to Murphy tournament quarterfinals

<span style="font-weight: 400;">MURPHYSBORO -- The lead was almost too comfortable for Chester.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Colin Wingerter scored 21 points to lead three players in double figures, and Chester survived a huge scare in a 64-57 win over Du Quoin on Saturday on the first day of the Murphysboro Sophomore Basketball Tournament.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ian Reith (15) and Drake Bollman (14) also reached double digits for the Yellow Jackets, who led 45-33 after three quarters, but saw Du Quoin hack the deficit down to a single possession, 46-43, with 5:31 remaining in the game.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ethen Eggemeyer and Jakob Cushman each added seven points for Chester, which had only five players score.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">"We got a little off-plan there and had some turnovers, but that's the norm when you've got full-court pressure thrown at you for more than a quarter at a time," said Chester coach Aaron Halstead. "We did a pretty good job throughout the entire game of taking care of the ball and staying with feeding the ball to a post and using our size."</span>

See more coverage of the game in the March 3 print edition of the Herald Tribune.