Article posted: 12/11/2012 12:01 AM

IHSA rules Mooseheart players eligible

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Mooseheart's Mangisto Deng waits for the ball at the free throw line in the second half against Hinckley-Big Rock. On Monday, Deng and his teammates found out good news from the IHSA.

Laura Stoecker | Staff Photographer

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The boys can play. In a full hearing of the Illinois High School board of directors on Monday in Bloomington, the Board overturned a decision by IHSA Executive Director Marty Hickman and found Mooseheart basketball players and Sudanese student-athletes Mangisto Deng, Makur Puou and Akim Nyang eligible to participate in interscholastic athletics. The favorable ruling pertained also to fellow Sudanese junior student-athlete Wal Khat, who in November became Mooseheart's first all-state cross country runner in history after a 24th place finish at the Class 1A state meet.

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