Naperville 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: Waubonsie Valley rallies from 12-point halftime deficit, beats Bolingbrook in sectional semifinalsFeb 25, 2025 10:16 pm - Waubonsie Valley came into Tuesday night’s Class 4A Bolingbrook sectional semifinal with 29 wins on the season against just 1 loss. At halftime against the host Raiders, ...
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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: Waubonsie Valley shows it’s ready to play with rout of West AuroraFeb 20, 2025 10:03 pm - Waubonsie Valley’s girls basketball team has plenty of talent, and its focus so far in the playoffs has been on staying focused and taking steps toward another trip downstate. The mission was accomplished with flying colors this week, capped off by Thursday’s 82-44 dismantling of West Aurora in the Class 4A regional title game.
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‘I’m extremely blessed’: Naperville’s Lopez cherishing time with CubsFeb 20, 2025 5:37 pm - At a career crossroads, Naperville Central High School graduate Nicky Lopez is cherishing his time with the Cubs.
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Girls basketball: Jones returns, but Naperville Central can’t slow YorkvilleFeb 18, 2025 10:43 pm - Yorkville senior Brooke Spychalski was as curious as anyone in the gym Tuesday at the sight of Trinity Jones warming up. Four weeks after Spychalski and the Foxes beat Na...
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Girls basketball: Frempong surges late for Naperville NorthFeb 17, 2025 11:01 pm - Girls basketball: Natalie Frempong scored 13 of her game-high 31 points in the fourth quarter to lead Naperville North to a 67-62 win over Oswego East in the Class 4A Benet Regional semifinal.
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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: Despite Naperville North’s big second half, Waubonsie moves closer to outright DVC titleFeb 14, 2025 10:54 pm - A road win is nothing to take for granted, but this year’s special Waubonsie Valley team knows it will need to do better than it did in the second half Friday night at Na...
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Girls basketball: Metea Valley’s comeback falls short at DeKalbFeb 11, 2025 10:54 pm - In a four-point game with 2:30 to play in the game, DeKalb senior forward Brytasia missed a free throw, the first of five straight misses for the Barbs from the charity s...