Girls Basketball | Illinois Valley
Girls basketball players from La Salle-Peru, Hall, Mendota, Princeton, Bureau Valley and Earlville earned all-conference honors.

Johnsburg sophomore Summer Toussaint earned Kishwaukee River Conference Girls Basketball Player of the Year honors. Check out the full All-KRC team here, as selected by coaches.
Rockford Christian outscored Marquette's girls basketball team by 15 points in the third quarter and built a double-digit lead on its way to a 61-42 win in the Class 1A Indian Creek Sectional semifinal contest.

The Ottawa girls basketball team hung tough early, but eventually fell 70-39 to Class 3A top-ranked Washington in the semifinals of the Galesburg Sectional on Tuesday.

Newman's lone senior Lucy Oetting stepped up with 24 points as the Comets beat Bureau Valley 66-41 to win their first regional title since 2009.

The Ottawa girls basketball team held regional top seed Sterling 25 points below its season average, upsetting the Golden Warriors 33-27 for the 3A La Salle-Peru Regional title and a trip to next week’s 3A Galesburg Sectional.

The Midland girls basketball team received a huge 3-pointer from senior Emma Franks in the final minutes of a 52-45 victory over Yorkville Christian in the Class 1A Serena Regional championship game om Thursday. It's the Timberwolves first postseason title since 1999.

Marquette avenged a 30-point loss from earlier in the season to beat Dwight 65-56 for the Class 1A Amboy Regional title. It is the Crusaders' first regional title since 2012.

The Cissna Park girls basketball team scored the first 10 points of the game and cruised to a win over Fieldcrest in the Class 1A Fieldcrest Regional championship game Thursday in Minonk.


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