De Smet Jesuit Basketball Honors Goessling, Defeats St. Charles West
The two schools will face eachother twice over a 16-day span.
On the night the De Smet Jesuit Basketball squad honored the memory of a key member of the school's first state basketball title team, the Spartans (4-1) defeated St. Charles West 54-45 in a game that might have been right up the alley for a player like the late Jim Goessling. Goessling, was a "glue guy" who hustled for rebounds, knew how to clutch and grab, the player who did the dirty work as Jim Kennedy led the '73 team to a title. He passed away after a roughly two year battle with colo-rectal cancer in October. Read: He Lived The Life of 5 People: Celebrating the life of Jim Goessling Tuesday night, after the Spartans peeled off their #35 JRG warmup jerseys that they'll wear the rest of the season in Goessling's honor, the teams …
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