Illinois High School Basketball News

Community High School District 155 announced Hannah Phillips, of Cary, earned salutatorian honors for the Class of 2013 at Cary-Grove High School.

The Geneva girls soccer team has played 160 minutes against St. Charles East this season with zero goals to show for it.

Falling to Metro Catholic Aquatics Conference rival St. Ignatius in Friday night's state quarterfinal marked a bitter end to Brother Rice's season to be sure, but first-year coach Chris Mulcrone was quick to look at the bright side.

Former McHenry football coach Mike Noll, the most successful coach in the school's history, will be inducted into the McHenry High School Athletic Hall of Fame on the weekend of Friday, Aug.

Morgan Park senior Xzavier Taylor played his best basketball of the season in the game that mattered most, the Class 3A state championship.

Ron Ashlaw has left Waukegan and will be named boys basketball coach at Bloom, according to sources.

Leaving Bolingbrook for Homewood-Flossmoor was "another opportunity at the right time to go build a new program," Tony Smith told the Bolingbrook Reporter .

Both the Maine South and Oak Park-River Forest girls soccer teams created quality scoring opportunities in the second half - including a pair of one-on-one chances late in the game - but neither could capitalize and the game ended in a 1-1 tie.

OK, Lipp isn't little and neither is his hometown, but rest assured the majority of ESPN's national audience never heard of the 6-foot-3 junior guard, whose remarkable shot in an AAU game last Saturday night provided one of the sports network's top video highlights Monday night.

Sarah Miller, a 2005 Mundelein High School graduate who played four years at Western Illinois University, was named Monday as the Chargers' new head girls basketball coach.

The event was started in honor of Dennis Lynch,the longtime Rolling Meadows teacher and coach who died last spring after a long battle with NHL.

This week we shine the spotlight on: Mitch Weiler, Brother Rice volleyball; Quinn Johnson, Bremen co-op water polo; Dana O'Grady, Lincoln-Way East track and field; and Ashley Godawski, Sandburg badminton.

I grew up in a sports-minded community, which is one way to justify a life built around fun and games.

This year will be the 74th annual session of Illnois Girls State and Illinois Boys State sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary Department of Illinois.

ROCK FALLS – With his team closing in on a 10-run rule win, Rock Falls' Austin Donoho made the move of the game.

Marissa Gama admits that while she's learned a lot in her basketball career at Marquette Academy, she has more to work on before and during the next step in that career, and that step will be at Illinois Valley Community College.

The Upstate Eight Conference recently came full circle, in a manner of speaking, when it accepted West Aurora and Glenbard East to rejoin the league those schools were charter members of 50 years ago when the conference was formed.

Bolingbrook High School girls basketball coach Tony Smith is leaving BHS, according to the Chicago Tribune .

Quinten Payne said he has leaned on a deep support network – family, friends, his girlfriend, his coach – in dealing with what has been a stressful last month.

Taft, the boys varsity basketball coach for seven years at South Elgin, will succeed Steve Weemer at Waubonsie Valley.