Will County Sports
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Girls basketball: Mporokoso takes game to another level while guiding Waubonsie Valley to 31-2 season, sectional titleMar 11, 2025 6:17 pm - Waubonsie Valley girls basketball coach Brett Love remembers the first time he met Danyella Mporokoso. “I met her when she was in fifth grade,” said Love. “I could tell s...
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Boys basketball: Benet puts the clamps on Quincy, earns trip to 4A state tournamentMar 10, 2025 10:09 pm - Benet turned the ball over on three of its first four possessions in the Class 4A Illinois State University supersectional on Monday night. One might think that was a bad...
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Boys basketball: Eastland denies Aurora Christian return trip to 1A state tournamentMar 10, 2025 8:59 pm - Eastland never trailed against Aurora Christian during Monday’s Class 1A DeKalb supersectional at the Convocation Center on the campus of Northern Illinois University. Au...
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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: Johnson, Aurora Christian storm past Hinckley-Big Rock for sectional titleMar 07, 2025 11:16 pm - This season has been a tumultuous up-and-down ride for the Aurora Christian boys basketball team, so it only makes sense that its sectional championship game was also a r...
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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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One luminary leaves Stevenson, while another comes inMar 05, 2025 4:42 pm - Trish Betthauer is in her finals months as Stevenson athletic director, while Glenbard East AD D’Wayne Bates is ready to come in as her successor.
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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: Alton turns tables on Waubonsie Valley, denies Warriors repeat trip to state despite Mporokoso’s 32Mar 03, 2025 10:18 pm - BLOOMINGTON — The undersized Waubonsie Valley girls basketball team played big most of the way against Alton in the Class 4A Illinois Wesleyan University supersectional o...
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College Achievers: Stephen vaults to another Big Ten awardMar 03, 2025 12:00 pm - College Achievers: Michigan State University senior Gabrielle Stephen, a graduate of Bartlett High School, earned her third Big Ten women’s gymnast of the week award.