Prep sports heads into the new year

Happy New Year from the Daily Herald prep sports newsletter.

This edition features the latest prep football recruiting column from “Edgy” Tim O’Halloran, an update on a Barrington hockey player and the latest top 20s for boys and girls basketball.

We also had a pretty good girls basketball matchup on Monday.

Hill headed to Indiana

O’Halloran writes about Naperville North’s Gabriel Hill, who is enrolling this week at Indiana University.

Boys basketball top 20

Did your team make the list this week?

Girls basketball top 20

One area team remains unbeaten.

She’s No. 1

Barrington’s Kelly Gorbatenko is the leading goal scorer for the top-ranked Wisconsin’s women’s hockey team.

Loyola tops Naperville Central

Despite 27 points and 12 rebounds by Clemson-bound Trinity Jones, Naperville Central’s girls basketball team fell to Loyola on Monday.