Downers Grove Schools
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Girls basketball: Montini returns to glory days, back on state mountaintopMar 08, 2025 9:34 pm - NORMAL — This was a special group of seniors for Montini. They leave as state champions. Nikki Kerstein scored a game-high 21 points, including five in the final 1:17, as...
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Boys basketball: Stasys answers the call, helps lead Benet’s stellar defense in sectional final win over Downers Grove NorthMar 07, 2025 11:31 pm - Edvardas Stasys did not play at all in Benet’s win Wednesday night, but the 6-foot-7 sophomore was not bothered by it. He knew his time was coming. Benet coach Gene Heidk...
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Boys basketball: Montini’s bid for first sectional title falls shortMar 07, 2025 9:43 pm - Montini once again made the trek to the west side of Chicago Friday night to Christ the King to face the hosts in the program's second ever sectional title game and first...
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Attorney jailed for missing start of trial in DuPage CountyMar 07, 2025 5:15 am - An attorney who had asked for a criminal trial to be postponed in DuPage County has been jailed herself after missing the start of the trial.
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Girls basketball: Montini advances to Class 3A state title game behind Kerstein’s brilliant playMar 06, 2025 10:41 pm - NORMAL — All five Montini seniors played all 32 minutes of the Class 3A state semifinal game. Their reward? They are playing for a state championship. Led by a game-high ...
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Pauliukonis, hot-shooting Benet take care of Waubonsie Valley in front of sellout crowdMar 05, 2025 10:30 pm - Daniel Pauliukonis is, in basketball parlance, a “unicorn.” Benet’s lanky 6-foot-9 senior, a Southern Illinois recruit, can shoot it like guards much smaller than him. Pa...
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Boys basketball: Montini notches rare sectional win to reach championship gameMar 05, 2025 10:18 pm - In its three previous runs to the sectional round of the Class 2A bracket, Montini has been sent to the far northwest as well as having played close to their Lombard camp...
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Boys basketball: Downers Grove North upsets No. 1 seed BolingbrookMar 04, 2025 11:00 pm - It wasn’t quite Dean Smith and the four corners, but Downers Grove North slowed the pace of Tuesday’s Class 4A Benet Academy sectional semifinal against Bolingbrook just ...
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Girls basketball: Montini answers Grayslake Central’s surge, wins 3A Hersey supersectionalMar 03, 2025 9:55 pm - Over. Game over. Or so it seemed to many onlookers, when Montini secured a 26-8 lead over Grayslake Central in the second quarter of Monday night’s Class 3A Hersey girls ...
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Boys basketball: Downers North seniors lead Trojans over West AuroraFeb 28, 2025 11:34 pm - Bobby Grganto, Jack Crowley and Downers Grove North’s senior class, 11 men strong, have lived in the shadows of the last two classes to come through the program. This gro...