The high school Winter sports season is hurtling to its final call, to its final weeks. The sectional-qualifying girls bowling teams will be in the State meet Friday and Saturday in Rockford. See pages 13 and 16. The others sports will not be far behind. The individual State wrestling tournaments in three classes will be held Thursday through Saturday in Champaign-Urbana at the University of Illinois. The girls basketball teams started this week in regional tournament play.
Other important information to pass along:
• The West Aurora High School girls basketball team won its first varsity conference championship in 20 years. See page 13.
• Waubonsie Valley High School’s boys basketball team has revived its upward direction. The Warriors, who had lost two of three games until Friday, handed DeKalb its first defeat in DuPage Valley Conference Friday. Waubonsie won, 61-44, to even the season series at one game each. “We had a great third quarter,” Waubonsie Valley head coach Jason Mead said. “We played as a team and worked hard.” Waubonsie Valley improved to 5-3 in the DuPage Valley and 24-4 overall. DeKalb dropped to 7-1 and 21-7.
• Other notable rivalry results in boys basketball: St. Charles North, 10-1, broke the first place tie in the second-year DuKane Conference with a 63-52 victory over St. Charles East, 9-2. Each team is 19-7 overall. Geneva beat rival Batavia, 54-48.Plano broke a second place tie with Kaneland, in its 63-61 victory in the Interstate Eight Conference. Oswego East took a two-game lead over rival Oswego in the Southwest Prairie Conference with a 67-49 victory. Plainfield North is in second place one game behind Oswego East.
• West Aurora head coach Brian Johnson in the team’s final home game Friday: “The goal is to have a great senior night against Minooka and continue to compete and protect our floor during regionals.”