Downers Grove Sports
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Girls basketball: Briggs leads Benet’s fourth-quarter surge past Downers Grove NorthFeb 25, 2025 11:09 pm - Benet center Emma Briggs is always trying to find a way to beat opponents. The 6-foot junior came up with several on Tuesday. Briggs scored a team-high 12 points, includi...
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Girls basketball: Benet ‘plays like a pack of wolves,’ overwhelms Naperville North for 11th straight regional titleFeb 20, 2025 10:30 pm - Stop Natalie Frempong. That was the easier-said-than done mission Benet was on Thursday night. Frempong, Naperville North’s star junior point guard, came into the Class 4...
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Girls basketball: Fanta finds her shot, hits 2 big ones to lift Downers Grove North to regional titleFeb 20, 2025 9:47 pm - Ady Fanta admits that she has not shot the ball as well as she’d like to this season. Downers Grove North coach Stephan Bolt, though, insists that she’s a knockdown shoot...
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‘Edgy’ Tim: Carmel’s Taylor narrows list to five schoolsFeb 16, 2025 12:00 pm - ‘Edgy’ Tim O’Halloran writes that Carmel sophomore quarterback Trae Taylor has narrowed his college list to five schools.
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Boys basketball: Waterman, Sveiteris convert 4-point plays in Downers Grove South’s win over Proviso EastFeb 14, 2025 10:22 pm - Senior year is the fourth year in high school, so it sort of made sense that Downers Grove South would use four four-point plays from seniors to beat Proviso East on Frid...
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Girls basketball: Lyons handles Downers Grove South in West Suburban Conference title gameFeb 13, 2025 10:32 pm - Nora Ezike and her Lyons Township teammates didn’t have their best performance, but it was still more than good enough to end the regular season on a high note. The Stanf...
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Who had the top prep basketball performances of the week?Feb 10, 2025 7:23 pm - This week’s High Five looks at the top prep basketball performances of last week.
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Girls basketball: Downers Grove North drops close one at Lincoln-Way WestFeb 08, 2025 3:42 pm - A word to the wise for any girls basketball team facing Lincoln-Way West: Defend Ava Tisch whenever she gets past halfcourt. Saturday afternoon’s matinee against nonconfe...
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Who had the area’s top prep basketball performances of the week?Feb 03, 2025 6:34 pm - This week’s High Five honors the area’s top prep basketball performances from last week.
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Boys basketball: Benet takes early lead, cruises past St. ViatorJan 31, 2025 10:15 pm - While it wasn’t a championship game, Benet treated Friday’s home game against St. Viator as such. Both teams entered as part of a three-way tie atop the East Suburban Cat...