ALTON – Last season, the Alton Redbirds and the Marquette Catholic Explorers met in the championship game of the Redbird Tournament.
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Both teams won their first games this time around, Alton beating Marion 3-2 and Marquette knocking off Parkway North 5-0.
Both teams returned to the tournament on Saturday, August 30, to play a doubleheader. Both teams played at 9 a.m. Alton hosted Duchesne and won 4-1 after trailing 1-0 at halftime.
The Explorers took on the Belleville West Maroons at Public School Stadium simultaneously and were defeated 4-2. Marquette had a 1-0 lead at the half, but Belleville West stormed back with four goals in the second to move on to the championship.
So it wasn’t an all-Alton final like last season, instead, pitting two Southwestern Conference opponents against one another.
And the Maroons prevailed by a score of 3-0. Belleville West outscored its Redbird Tournament opposition 9-2. West now sits at 4-1 on the season and will next play at Edwardsville on Tuesday, September 2, at 6:45 p.m.
Alton will get a quick rematch against the Maroons on Thursday, September 4, at 6:45 p.m.
The Explorers, who came back to beat Duchesne 2-1 in the third-place game, host Waterloo Gibault Catholic on Tuesday at Glazebrook Park at 5 p.m.
REDBIRD TOURNAMENT SCOREBOARD
FIRST ROUND – QUARTERFINALS
ALTON 3, MARION 2
DUCHESNE 2, CIVIC MEMORIAL 0
BELLEVILLE WEST 2, JACKSONVILLE (IL) 2-0
MARQUETTE 5, PARKWAY NORTH 0
SECOND ROUND - CONSOLATION SEMIFINALS
MARION 6, CIVIC MEMORIAL 2
JACKSONVILLE 3, PARKWAY NORTH 1
SECOND ROUND – CHAMPIONSHIP SEMIFINALS
ALTON 4, DUCHESNE 1
BELLEVILLE WEST 4, MARQUETTE 2
CONSOLATION THIRD PLACE
CIVIC MEMORIAL 4, PARKWAY NORTH 2
CONSOALTION CHAMPIONSHIP
JACKSONVILLE (IL) 5, MARION 0
CHAMPIONSHIP THIRD PLACE
MARQUETTE 2, DUCHESNE 1
CHAMPIONSHIP
BELLEVILLE WEST 3, ALTON 0
