Suburban Sprawl has some fantastic finishes
It was a great week in basketball, with girls sectionals and boys regionals taking place.
Lots of chatter about the crowd at Thursday’s Maine South-Loyola girls sectional championship. The game was sold out and obviously the bleachers were packed...
Libertyville is hosting Monday’s supersectional between the Wildcats and Loyola, so get your tickets early...
Another colossal sectional matchup saw Waubonsie Valley edge Benet in overtime...
Here’s the ending of a low-scoring sectional semi between Stevenson and Hersey.
The Fremd sectional ended with another win for the home team.
Fremd will face Batavia in Monday’s Class 4A Bartlett supersectional.
Hinsdale South keeps on winning in 3A, will host a supersectional against Marian Catholic.
Grayslake Central won the Class 3A Antioch sectional.
Montini and Grayslake Central will square off in the Concordia supersectional Monday
Regional managers
There was no shortage of fantastic finishes in the boys regional semis on Wednesday. Let’s start with Fenton over Lakes...
Here’s an up-close view of Plainfield North’s game-winner against Metea Valley.
After going unbeaten in the Fox Valley, Crystal Lake South survived a close call against Prairie Ridge...
Simeon edged Hinsdale Central...
Maybe it doesn’t make sense geographically, but Oak Park pulled an upset against Niles North.
This was nearly a huge upset, top seed Rockford Guilford survived against East...
This is Joliet Central with a last-second victory over Lincoln-Way East.
Here’s an electric ending from Southern Illinois, Carterville over Murphysboro.
Reginal semi court storm for Belleville West...
Minnesota madness
Here’s a college game-winner, Lake Zurich grad Ella Gilbertson leading Minnesota Duluth past St. Cloud State.
Hoop milestones
DePaul commit Emory Klatt is North Suburban player of the year.
Lake Forest’s Tommie Aberle is boys player of the year in NSC.
St. Viator’s Mia Bergstrom continued to move up the ladder.
Stevenson grad John Ittounas was named CCIW player of the week for Elmhurst.
College commits
Waubonsie Valley’s Hannah Laub is headed to Army.
Wheaton North WR/FS Matt Kuczaj to Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Huntley’s Haiden Janke is headed to College of DuPage.
Stevenson’s Brayden Fell to Simpson College for baseball.
End of an era
The Chicago Dogs won’t be the same with the retirement of catcher Ryan Lidge. The Barrington grad played four seasons in Rosemont.
Throwback of the week
Here’s a nice shot of Dan Issel’s team at Batavia High School.