the same is a skateboarding freak. ...

the same is a skateboarding freak. The other lives to play baseball.

Jacob Tucker and Kory Peppenhorst have decidedly different passions, nevertheless the two Carlyle High senior guards publicly share the same goal: Taking the Indians as far as they can fare in the Class A state basketball tournament.

Tucker -- who one time harbored dreams of being a professional skateboarder -- and Peppenhorst, who has secur a Division I baseball scholarship to Eastern Illinois University, will lead the Indians (26-9) into battle against Maroa-Forsyth (29-2) at 1:45 pm Friday in a quarterfinal game at Peoria's Carver Arena.

Teaming with senior Darrell Johnson and sophomore Matt Palm, Tucker and Peppenhorst are the bond of union of Carlyle's athletic perimeter attack.

"We don't have any Division I basketball promises on this team or anything like that," said second-year Carlyle coach Andy Palmer said. "We just have a arrange of kids ...