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Tori sets the tone for senior-reliant Eagles Greg Shashack, gshashack@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 CM’s Tori Standefer (1) beats a Breese Central player to a loose ball and looks for a teammate before giving the ball to Maura Niemeier (4) in a Feb. 9 game in Bethalto.Greg Shashack / The TelegraphShow MoreShow Less 2of6 CM senior Harper Buhs looks to shoot during the Eagles’ MVC victory last Thursday in Highland. Buhs is back for CM after missing most of her junior season reco...

Finally, the power play! CM vs. Edwardsville on Saturday Greg Shashack, gshashack@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9 CM’s Claire Christeson (left) and Breese Central’s Chloe Book watch the basketball after Christeson passes a loose ball to a teammate during Tuesday’s girls basketball game in Bethalto.Greg Shashack / The TelegraphShow MoreShow Less 2of9 CM coach Mike Arbuthnot talks with the Eagles’ Maura Niemeier during a quarterly mask break in Tuesday’s win over Breese Cent...

Busy comfort zone: Ochs balances Trimpe, EA-WR duties and waits Ochs balances Trimpe,EA-WR duties and waits Pete Hayes, phayes@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Jeff Ochs talks with his CM team last season during his tenure as interim girls basketball coach at Civic Memorial. Ochs, the AD at Trimpe Middle School, is now in his first season as head coach of the EA-WR girls basketball team. Even though he’s been busy handling both positions, he’s hoping the Region 4 mitigation level...

Third knee surgery ends comeback for CMs Sontag With promising basketball career snuffed out, Eagles senior turns to bodybuilding Greg Shashack, gshashack@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Civic Memorial senior Hannah Sontag will switch gyms after Tuesday’s knee surgery — on third since tearing her ACL two weeks before Christmas 2018 — will prevent a return to Eagles girls basketball. Sontag, who also missed her junior season and most of her sophomore season, shifts her focus to...