Bee-lieve in this team
Zion-Benton High's girls basketball team came out strong
defensively and crushed the Deerfield Warriors 64-39 on Thursday in the Z-B coaching debut of Hall of Fame coach Tanya Johnson. Sophomore Octavia Crump led the way, including a second-quarter outburst that helped break the game open.
A bright ray of light has already begun to shine on a Carmel High girls basketball season that began with tremendous sadness, Late last month, Jennifer Berg -- the wife of Carmel High girls basketball coach Ben Berg -- passed away. As a tribute, the Carmel players are wearing white wristbands that have the initials "J.B." on them.
The smiling faces on players, coaches, parents and fans said it all
about Lake Forest High's season-opening girls basketball win over
visiting Regina Dominican of Wilmette. And why not smile? It's not often a team opens its season hitting on all cylinders and completely steamrolls a quality program.
Mundelein High was a gracious host on Monday as the Mustang Invitational girls basketball tournament got under way with three contests. Some might say a little too gracious. While the home team figured to be one of the powerhouse teams in the eight-team field, it was upstart Highland Park which went home with a 46-39 win over the host Mustangs in the first round pool play.
The cream swam to the top at Saturday’s IHSA sectional girls swimming meet at Vernon Hills High. And among the risers were two girls who attend high schools that have neither a swimming pool nor a swim team. Antioch High’s Dominique Bessette won the 100-yard backstroke and finished second in the 200 individual medley, and will compete on Friday in the state meet at New Trier High in Winnetka in both events.
Jereme Richmond has already set off fireworks with the most historic basketball shot in county history. His alleged "hanging-on-the-rim" flagrant technical foul was a front-and-center situation that threatened to derail a Waukegan Bulldogs run for a state title before it even began.
At home on the road?
Waukegan will play just six games in the Dog Pound during the regular season -- one game against each Central Suburban League South Division opponent and a game the Dogs are required by league rules to play against a team from the league's North Division.
Extra Points
News you can use ... or maybe not. From the better-late-than-never department of sports, a tip of the Lakes cap goes to Eagle senior Abbie Horan, who fired an amazing 68 at Vernon Hills Golf Course to win the Vernon Hills Invite by eight strokes earlier this month.
Players must relax
It wasn't until Sunday night that the basketball buzz finally started to dim a bit. All day/night Saturday and into Sunday morn, just about everywhere you went in Waukegan -- drugstore, Jewel, Wal-Mart, bank, oil-change place, post office, gas station -- literally everywhere, smiling people wanted to talk about high-school hoops.
This was one for the ages
This reporter received an e-mail on Friday afternoon from former North Chicago boys basketball coach Tom Gregorin scolding me on my enthusiasm for basketball in Lake County this season.
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