Girls Basketball
Another local girls basketball coach in charge of a lauded program has resigned.
At no point this season did things get easier for Cary-Grove’s girls basketball team.
Player of the Year: Melissa Dixon, Johnsburg
Hampshire junior Jessie Van Dorin, a day after winning the Class 3A title in the IHSA Three-Point Showdown, finished third Saturday in the Queen of the Hill finals at Redbird Arena in Normal.
NORMAL – Whitney Adams scored 20 points, and Alison Seberger added 18 as Montini beat Hillcrest, 64-53, in the Class 3A title game Saturday at Redbird Arena for its first IHSA girls basketball championship.
Ask Melissa Dixon what she would like to improve about her game, and she does not hesitate.
During the girls basketball postseason, a prediction gained some credibility, and it likely will not come as a shock.
Johnsburg’s Megan Lopez and her teammates will be at Illinois State University’s Redbird Arena in Normal today, but not in the capacity they had hoped.
ELGIN – With every second that ticked off the clock, another Johnsburg girls basketball player put her head in her hands.
JOHNSBURG – Johnsburg’s boys basketball team continued its strong finish to the season with a 66-44 Fox Valley Conference Fox division win against Woodstock on Friday night.
DeKALB – Hampshire’s girls basketball team gladly would take a do-over in the first half of Thursday’s IHSA Class 3A De- Kalb Sectional against Oswego.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS – The celebration never gets old.
It’s time.
It’s been six years since Hampshire’s girls basketball team has made an appearance in the IHSA state finals. For the storied program, that’s too many.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS – It took 16 minutes, but Johnsburg’s girls basketball team eventually looked as though it had been there before.
HUNTLEY – Most teams might have given up after managing only two points in the first quarter against an undefeated powerhouse.
The thought crossed Bill Mitz’s mind on the Saturday of the IHSA state football playoff semifinals.
DeKALB – And so it continues, this undisturbed dominance.
DeKALB – If Prairie Ridge was going to go down, it was going to do so fighting.
Four local girls basketball teams won regional crowns and will advance to sectional semifinals today and Tuesday in Class 3A and 4A action.
At the start of the season, Johnsburg girls basketball coach Mike Toussaint told Megan Lopez she was on the cusp of accomplishing something no other Skyhawks athlete ever had.
Jacobs athletic director Tom Ross said Friday that varsity girls basketball coach Ed Haugens has quit, effective immediately.
CRYSTAL LAKE – It took 10 years, but Prairie Ridge’s girls basketball team finally added another accolade to its banner.
McHENRY – Thursday was, in so many ways, a microcosm of Jacobs’ girls basketball season.
FREEPORT – Marengo’s girls basketball team looked as if coach Todd Price had flipped a switch in the third quarter against Freeport.
ROCHELLE – Hampshire girls basketball coach Sue Ellett urged her team to reach the 50-point mark before DeKalb in her halftime speech Thursday.
LAKE VILLA – The Johnsburg girls basketball team put its foot on the accelerator from the outset Thursday and sped to the IHSA Class 3A Lakes Regional championship.
CRYSTAL LAKE – It definitely wasn’t pretty, but Prairie Ridge’s girls basketball team found a way to stay alive Wednesday.
Inside Girls Basketball
ROCHELLE – Hampshire’s girls basketball team was expected to play as one Wednesday night.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Crystal Lake Central’s girls basketball team needed three quarters to remove an imaginary lid from the basket Wednesday.
McHENRY – Jacobs’ girls basketball team knew what it had to do against Huntley on Tuesday night in an IHSA Class 4A McHenry Regional semifinal.
LAKE VILLA – Blink and you could have missed a bucket from Johnsburg in the Skyhawks’ IHSA Class 3A Lakes Regional semifinal Tuesday.
McHENRY – When your opponent exploits your defensive weaknesses, seems to hit every shot and answer every point you score, it takes a monumental rally to pull out a win.
ALGONQUIN – Jacobs’ chance to win the Fox Valley Conference Valley Division has been messed up for some time.
McHENRY – Much more was at stake Monday night than simply the end of a regular season.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Before, during and after her basketball games, Jenny Hanrahan thinks about her mother.
McHENRY – Cary-Grove’s boys basketball team trailed McHenry by one at halftime Friday night, although the deficit felt much larger to the Trojans.
CARY – The Cary-Grove girls basketball team will enter the postseason on a high after defeating St. Charles North, 64-58, on Friday at Elroy Fitzgerald Gymnasium.
WOODSTOCK – Hampshire and Woodstock North had opportunities to tweak their games Thursday night in their non-conference matchup.
PECATONICA – The Alden-Hebron girls basketball team’s season came to an end Wednesday with a 50-29 loss to the Keith School in the IHSA Class 1A Pecatonica Regional semifinals.
Athlete of the week
Playoffs for Class 3A and 4A girls basketball start Monday, and teams will try to extend their seasons long enough to earn a berth in the state finals at Redbird Arena in Normal on March 5-6.
JOHNSBURG – The big win that had eluded Huntley’s girls basketball team all season finally came Tuesday.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Crystal Lake South guard Katie Burton thought Senior Night would be special enough with a win against Prairie Ridge on Tuesday.
RICHMOND – Hampshire’s girls basketball team can blame it on the long bus rides.
PECATONICA – Since the IHSA went to the four-class system three years ago, Alden-Hebron girls basketball had not won a postseason game.
CRYSTAL LAKE – After the final seconds ticked away in the last regular season game for McHenry and Crystal Lake Central, only one team was left feeling good about the prospects of the postseason.
No one can accuse Cary-Grove’s Claire Jakubicek of being too absorbed in her numbers.
RICHMOND – Richmond-Burton’s girls basketball team has a .500 record, but it quickly is proving it can be one of the area’s more dangerous clubs.
