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Lake Park outscored St. Charles Wednesday at the DuKane Conference Meet, but it wasn’t enough to wrest the overall conference championship from St. Charles.
With stars Dylan Long of Newark suffering an injury late in the first half and Martin Ledbetter of Hinckley-Big Rock home sick, Reggie Chapman scored 13 of his 21 points in the second half to lift Newark to a 67-64 win to take sole possession of first place in the Little Ten.
DeKalb junior Olivia Schermerhorn drilled two of her four 3-pointers in the first quarter as the Barbs separated from visiting Rockford East early and coasted to a 52-6 win Wednesday.
Batavia senior Kaidyn King scored 10 of her team-best 16 points in the fourth quarter, including all eight in a game-changing 8-0 run to open it, to rally the Bulldogs past Naperville North 52-50 in the final game of the MLK Showdown.
Woodstock’s Taqi Baker wasn’t sure if he could wrestle during Thursday’s Kishwaukee River Conference dual meets at Sandwich. He proved to be healthy enough to go, battling back from a prior injury to top Jakob Gruca by 3-0 decision that helped the Blue Streaks get past Sandwich.
The St. Charles co-op gymnastics team beat Geneva 141.65-139.05 on Wednesday.
Support specialists, counselors, and teacher positions are all targeted for elimination as Kaneland 302 stares down a $4 million deficit.
Every game has its quirkiness, and this one certainly had its share as Hinckley-Big Rock finally got to Indian Creek late in a 54-43 victory.
Behind a pair of second, third and fourth place finishers, Sycamore took fourth place in Saturday’s XLIX Sycamore Invitational.
Taron McGowan gave Plano a little kick start late in the first half of Friday’s non-conference game at home against Morris. And he did it with defense along with a fine shooting touch, scoring 25 points to lead the Reapers to a 68-56 victory.
Liam Fenoglio had to wait to return to the Yorkville lineup. Donncha Souza is looking to crack it. Both had pins for the Foxes on Thursday night in a 63-18 win over visiting Oswego East in the Southwest Prairie Conference.
Aurora Central Catholic started Tuesday's game with Kaneland quickly and never really slowed down as it rolled to a 73-48 victory.
Sophie Kelner was among five Lockport girls to take home individual titles as the Porters won the team championship of Oswego East's Aaron Dudley Memorial Girls Invite. Woodstock was third, Oswego fourth and Oswego East fifth in the 24-team field.
Genoa-Kingston's Marcus Johnson beat the shot clock in overtime for a clutch 3-pointer, and the Cogs held off Indian Creek 64-56 Friday night in Shabbona.
The 25th version of the tournament wrapped up Saturday night in DeKalb, with DeKalb dropping its three matches in the Bronze bracket.