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Another local girls basketball coach in charge of a lauded program has resigned.
HAMPSHIRE – The intensity, the rapid-fire scoring and the general quick play stunned Marian Central’s boys basketball team Tuesday.
VERNON HILLS – The good part for Chicago Gordon Tech was it had hacked Johnsburg’s once-comfortable lead to six points with 2:17 remaining.
After a big night of playoff hoops, The Burg’s boys basketball team is the only team left playin’ for a state title.
VERNON HILLS – The good part for Gordon Tech was it had hacked Johnsburg’s once-comfortable lead to six points with 2:17 remaining.
Marian Central boys basketball coach Curtis Price sees no reason his team can’t hang around for a while in the IHSA Class 3A postseason.
HOFFMAN ESTATES – Reilly Shanahan scored six goals to lead the McHenry boys water polo team to a season-opening 8-4 victory against Conant on Monday. Tim Briscoe and Phillip Lesniak also scored for the Warriors, who got three saves from goalie Dan Brucki and one from Alex Birkle.
Johnsburg might have the most experienced boys basketball team in the state.
At no point this season did things get easier for Cary-Grove’s girls basketball team.
Player of the Year: Melissa Dixon, Johnsburg
Hampshire junior Jessie Van Dorin, a day after winning the Class 3A title in the IHSA Three-Point Showdown, finished third Saturday in the Queen of the Hill finals at Redbird Arena in Normal.
NORMAL – Whitney Adams scored 20 points, and Alison Seberger added 18 as Montini beat Hillcrest, 64-53, in the Class 3A title game Saturday at Redbird Arena for its first IHSA girls basketball championship.
Ask Melissa Dixon what she would like to improve about her game, and she does not hesitate.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Host Crystal Lake South stayed close throughout its IHSA Class 4A Regional title game, but top-seeded Jefferson pulled away late for a 57-44 boys basketball victory Friday.
WOODSTOCK – The year already was ingrained in the heads of Marian Central’s players, but Hurricanes coach Curtis Price drove the point home one more time before they left school.
JOHNSBURG – When Johnsburg needed to keep its composure in a tight fourth quarter against Lakes in the IHSA Class 3A Johnsburg Regional final Friday, not a single player hid from the late-game pressure.
The college commitment derby came to a close for volleyball standouts Kelly Lamberti and Kelsey Nobilio on Friday.
After Friday night’s hoops action we are down to two local teams still alive in the post season.
During the girls basketball postseason, a prediction gained some credibility, and it likely will not come as a shock.
Bensenville – As frustrating as it was that a three-goal lead had evaporated, Jacobs defenseman Ed Weine sensed more calm than panic in the locker room between the second and third periods.
Johnsburg’s Megan Lopez and her teammates will be at Illinois State University’s Redbird Arena in Normal today, but not in the capacity they had hoped.
Johnsburg senior Jordan Hauck was selected to the IHSA Caterpillar All-State Academic Team, a prestigious award given annually to 26 students statewide.
MAPLE PARK – Hampshire tried everything it could to keep Kaneland center Dave Dudzinski from getting the ball in his hands with 11.3 seconds remaining.
JOHNSBURG – Teams facing Johnsburg must pick their poison when defending the Skyhawks’ offense.
WOODSTOCK – In the previous two games between Prairie Ridge’s and Crystal Lake Central’s boys basketball teams this season, Central emerged with the victory.
WOODSTOCK – Little went wrong for Marian Central’s boys basketball team Tuesday night.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Huntley’s players felt like the butt of some cruel joke as guard Tyler Brunschon drained two three-pointers in the final 12 seconds.
BARRINGTON – Dundee-Crown’s boys basketball team was held to single-digit scoring in the second and third quarters, and Barrington rolled to a 52-39 victory Tuesday in the semifinals of the IHSA Class 4A Barrington Regional.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Crystal Lake South and McHenry delivered one of the more dramatic and unconventional finishes of the boys basketball season.
ELGIN – With every second that ticked off the clock, another Johnsburg girls basketball player put her head in her hands.
CRYSTAL LAKE– With the season on the line and his team trailing by two points in overtime, Huntley senior Mason Kaniewski hit the game-winning three-pointer with 23 seconds left, giving the Red Raiders a thrilling 51-50 win against Jacobs on Monday.
There were not many people out there who thought that Johnsburg’s girls basketball team would be playing for a state title more than The Rant.
Athlete of the Week
BLOOMINGTON – Crystal Lake Central’s seven wrestlers who qualified for the IHSA Individual State Tournament last weekend won 18 matches against three teams Saturday at the IHSA Class 2A Dual Team State Tournament.
Hockey dad Rick Ulreich has myriad memories of his three sons’ favorite sport.
Athlete of the Week
JOHNSBURG – Johnsburg’s boys basketball team continued its strong finish to the season with a 66-44 Fox Valley Conference Fox division win against Woodstock on Friday night.
ALGONQUIN – The gym was electric Friday night as the Jacobs boys basketball team picked up its fifth win in a row, a 46-42 Fox Valley Conference Valley Division victory against Huntley.
WOODSTOCK – The Prairie Ridge boys basketball team coasted to a 59-33 postseason tuneup win against Woodstock North on Friday, in Fox Valley Conference Fox Division action.
The dream matchup between Crystal Lake Central and Montini is all set up at IHSA Dual Team State Tournament today.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Crystal Lake South’s performance left little room for criticism.
The Burg’s girls basketball team won its third straight sectional title on Thursday in a route of Regina Dominican, and if they beat Oswego on Monda,y they punch their ticket to the state tournament.
DeKALB – Hampshire’s girls basketball team gladly would take a do-over in the first half of Thursday’s IHSA Class 3A De- Kalb Sectional against Oswego.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS – The celebration never gets old.
POPLAR GROVE – Harvard’s boys basketball team thought it would hang with Genoa-Kingston and make things as difficult as possible at the end, just as it had in most games since January.
It’s time.
It’s been six years since Hampshire’s girls basketball team has made an appearance in the IHSA state finals. For the storied program, that’s too many.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Matt Fralick played an integral role in Crystal Lake Central’s football revival over the past several years, and now he gets to take over in the top spot.
Not long after Jacobs named Bill Mitz its new head football coach, CL Community has promoted sophomore coach Matt Fralick to its top spot.
Things are heatin’ up for The Burg and the Shire’s girls basketball teams. Each of them are one win away from sectional titles, and a long awaited meetin’ between the two.
