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CHAMPAIGN — Gene Heidkamp has been the architect at Benet of one of the state’s most respected and best basketball programs since he arrived at the Lisle private school in 2008. Taking a program steeped in tradition that once won 102 consecutive home games in the 1980s, Heidkamp’s Redwings have won greater than 20 games…
CHAMPAIGN — Jaxson Davis was excited. The sophomore point guard had every reason to be. Playing at the same university where his dad, Brian Davis, played football, he poured in a game-high 27 points and added seven steals, five rebounds and two assists, as Warren outlasted Rich Township 66-49 on Friday evening in the second…
Hersey senior Kiki Craft was still racing around the court well after the final buzzer of the Larkin Class 4A girls basketball regional championship Thursday night. Craft had enough energy left to chase head coach Courtney Ludois’ young daughter Quinn. And the 6-foot senior and her Huskies’ teammates didn’t waste any fuel with their suffocating…
None of Ryan Brown’s game-high 28 points brought Fremd’s crowded house down like the Fremd senior’s dazzling third-quarter pass against Barrington did Friday night. Brown — the Vikings’ 6-foot-4, team-first guard — shoved a confident bounce pass through rush-hour-ish lane traffic that found a cutting Jordan Williams, who executed a hard spin move en route…
The 2024-2025 wrestling season is in full swing, so let’s take a look at the tournament action in the area on Saturday. 58th ANNUAL REX WHITLACH INVITATIONAL One of the best, and oldest wrestling tournaments of the season is held at host Hinsdale Central — and once again, the field was filled with an all-star cast…
Montini Catholic quarterback Israel Abrams reacts after winning the Class 3A State football championship on Friday. Scott Anderson/Shaw Local News Network Between the cold weather, the many blowouts and the late starts, last weekend wasn’t exactly ideal for IHSA football fans. That being said, the area’s four finalists gave everything they had in hopes of…
After eight years, Mike Bukovsky earned his state title as Montini’s head coach. The Broncos’ offense was unstoppable most of the day Friday against Monticello, amassing 545 total yards in a 49-8 win in the Class 3A state championship game at Illinois State’s Hancock Stadium. It was the seventh title for the Broncos, the first…
