Friday, January 2, 2009

Bailey, Kester unsure about college ...

Zach Kester and Byron Bailey, Massac County's lethal quarterback-wide receiver connection, are still trying to figure out where they will be next year.

Kester knows where he wants to be — Southern Illinois. But he has yet to receive an offer from the Salukis. In the meantime, he's also gotten interest from Illinois State and Kentucky State.

Bailey said he would prefer to play college basketball — at least that's his stance at the moment. "If you asked me during football, I might have told you it was football," Bailey said earlier this week en route to earning MVP honors in leading the Patriots to the championship of the Eldorado Holiday Tournament.

He has drawn some interest from one Division I school — Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, which is in the process of moving up from Division II and joining Murray State, Southeast Missouri and Tennessee-Martin in the Ohio Valley Conference. It seems sure that Bailey would have more offers in football, but he admits he's not paying much attention to the process because his mind is on basketball.

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