On Saturday, January 28th, the Morton Lady Potters accomplished several feats.  Most importantly, with the help of numerous individuals and businesses from the community, raised $2,500 for cancer care, education and research through Illinois CancerCare.  It was the Annual Pink Night game, that has become a tradition for the Lady Potters to find creative ways to raise money and awareness in the fight to stop cancer.

This year the team sold pink patterned bandanas, buttons and baked goods and organized and hosted prize raffles (prizes that were donated by local businesses and individuals).  Then they put on their pink uniforms and dismantled the Pekin Lady Dragons by a score of 68-50 in front of a fantastic crowd that came to celebrate and participate in the Pink Night Event.

In doing so, the Lady Potters raised their season record to 24-2 and a perfect 11-0 in the Mid-Illini conference.  The win clinched a share of the Mid-Illini Conference Championship, being 3 games up on 2nd place Limestone with 3 games left in conference play.  Morton plays Limestone on Friday, February 3rd, at Limestone High School, 5:30pm.  You can bet that the Lady Potters will not be looking to share the Conference Championship with Limestone and will be looking to clinch an outright Championship that night.  This is Morton’s 3rd consecutive Mid-Illini Conference Championship and 6th in the last 7 years.