High School Boys Basketball Thanksgiving Tournaments • At Oswego and Naperville North Hoops 4 HealingNovember 22-24, 26: Neuqua Valley, West Aurora, DeKalb, Downers Grove South, Oswego East, Hinsdale Central. • At BataviaNovember 22-23, 26-27Include Waubonsie Valley. • At St. Charles EastNovember 22-24, 26-27Teams: Black Pool, East Aurora, St. Charles East,
Boys Basketball Thanksgiving Tournaments • At Oswego and Naperville North Hoops 4 Healing, November 22-24, 26: Neuqua Valley, West Aurora, DeKalb, Downers Grove South, Oswego East, Hinsdale Central. • At Batavia, November 22-23, 26-27Include Waubonsie Valley. • At St. Charles East, November 22-24, 26-27Includes East Aurora • At Wheaton Academy,
By Bobby Narang The Batavia High School girls basketball team returns one of the tallest and best players in the State this season. At 6-5, Tessa Towers embodies her last name. She’s tall, strong, and committed to being an outstanding player. The University of Wisconsin recruit averaged 17.1 points and
By Bobby Narang By mid-Summer, Timothy Christian High School senior guard Ben VanderWal had become one of the fastest rising basketball recruits in Chicagoland. With that, VanderWal learned to become used to spending a lot of time talking on the phone, a lot of time. The 6-foot-6 VanderWal gained 13
By Bobby Narang Glenbard West High School boys basketball head coach Jason Opoka called it the ideal start to a potential special season. Last season, the Hilltoppers won all but one of their games in the abridged regular season to establish themselves as one of the top teams in the
By Bobby Narang Jaden Schutt is making the most of his delayed Summer. The Yorkville Christian High School incoming senior guard in basketball is among the top players in the State for his class and is attracting attention from a wide range of schools across the Country who are looking
Marmion Academy in Aurora Monday announced Joe Piekarz has joined the Marmion Athletic Department as the head basketball coach. Piekarz spent the last 15 years as the head boys basketball coach at Indian Creek High School in Shabbona. At Indian Creek, Piekarz and his teams had unprecedented success at the
By Bobby Narang Benet Academy High School boys basketball head coach Gene Heidkamp made sure to take his time walking off the court Friday. The Redwings were one of the small group of boys and girls basketball teams to finish the truncated 2021 season March 12. The official end of
East Aurora High School’s Jacques Kelly, 4, stretches for control of the ball under the basket Saturday in a battle for control of the Upstate Eight Conference boys basketball race against Bartlett High School
Thursday, March 11DuPage ValleyNaperville North at Metea Valley, 7 Non-conferenceBenet at Batavia, 7 Upstate Eight TournamentConsolation semifinalConsolation semifinalSemifinalSemifinal Friday, March 12Chicago Catholic White*Montini at Providence, 7 DuKaneBatavia at St. Charles East, 7Lake Park at Wheaton-Warr. South, 7St. Charles North at Glenbard N., 7Wheaton North at Geneva, 7 DuPage ValleyMetea Valley
High school and college basketball teams, boys and girls, men and women, are grateful, mainly, just to have a season, which has been modified by COVID-19. High school players must wear masks in their six-week season. They are making the best of it. Players’ and fans’ adjustments include no annual
By Bobby Narang In a year full of surprises, Waubonsie Valley High School boys basketball head coach, Jason Mead, delivered his own surprise. Monday, Feb. 22, in the middle of a shortened six-week season, Mead announced his resignation as head coach of the varsity program effective at the end of
Neal Schwartz, 24, Marmion Academy senior, looks for a shot against Leo defenders Monday in Aurora. Leo won the Chicago Catholic League game, 76-59.
East Aurora High School teammates, Jullian Acosta, 23, left, and Jabian Acosta, 3, right, and South Elgin’s Wyatt Steurer, middle, find their focus on possession of the ball in Monday’s game.
Aurora Christian’s McCade Weber, 12, drives against Danny Cwinski, 10, of Aurora Central Catholic Friday.
By Bobby Narang With basketball in full force throughout the state, the biggest underlying issue for high schools team is making sure the season runs its course. Several teams in the state have experienced “shutdowns” because of cases of COVID-19. Many regions experienced upticks following Super Bowl Sunday parties, which
Rosary High School’s Emily Hurst, 11, drives against Aurora Christian’s Lexi Lamana Monday.
By Bobby Narang Basketball is back. After a long absence because of the COVID-19 pandemic, that stretched into early February, high school basketball was back in full force in Illinois last week. Although some teams had trouble scheduling games at the last minute, several teams played multiple games in a
From Super Bowl to high school sports. The fast conveyance of competition keeps sports interesting. Ageless 43-year-old Tom Brady of Tampa Bay stays in good shape, physically and mentally, and received the benefit of a young and improving defense and a coordinated offense to capture the Super Bowl Sunday over
By Bobby Narang Basketball runs in the Cohn family. So does the Jack Tosh Holiday Tournament. Let former York High School star point guard, David Cohn, explain the long-running Tournament’s worth to his family. “My uncle is a huge high school sports fan,” Cohn said. “He went to York games
