Jason Mead and Marcus Skeete have each been at Waubonsie Valley for 4 seasons. The impression the coach (Mead) and the senior (Skeete) have made is straight away clear by simply glancing on the win totals: eight, 13, 27. That’s fast, spectacular enchancment and it doesn’t occur by probability. The Warriors knocked off host Clemente 66-45 on Saturday to choose up their 24th win of this season. “Marcus has put in a lot of work over the last few years,” Mead stated. “Ever since I’ve known him he’s grown as a player and as a person. The person one is more important. I’m just really proud of him and I hope he gets the
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Chicago highschool basketball: Michael O’Brien’s pocket book,
PONTIAC—It didn’t take lengthy for the primary upset to happen within the 89th Pontiac Holiday Tournament. Warren, which entered as an entire afterthought, knocked off No. Four seed Peoria Manual 54-45 within the second first spherical on Thursday. The Rams have been a controversial alternative because the 4 seed, however nobody noticed 3-6 Warren pulling off the upset. It does make some sense why it took the Blue Devils a very long time to get issues going this season although. Only two gamers scored for Warren within the fourth quarter: Juan Delacruz and Seamus Mellican. Both are soccer gamers that have been key members of the Blue Devils’ squad that misplaced to Lincoln-Way
Previewing the 2019 Pontiac vacation highschool basketball
Pontiac is the one remaining top-tier vacation event within the state. Proviso West is a shell of its former self, the Big Dipper is on life help and Hinsdale Central nonetheless hasn’t caught on with followers. Centralia, Pekin and Bloomington proceed to roll on efficiently, however no event within the state comes near matching the sphere at Pontiac. Part of the issue is that many of the elite Public League applications don't have any allegiances to in-state vacation tournaments. Curie and Simeon are fixtures at Pontiac and Proviso West has held on to Bogan however Young, Orr, Lincoln Park and Morgan Park are all leaving Illinois for the vacations. The neighborhood
Chicago highschool basketball: Sincere Key leads Solorio
Solorio’s Sincere Key had a singular deal with Tuesday. He needed to beat Lindblom. The senior wound up doing that and in addition acquired a life-changing alternative alongside the way in which. “They beat us twice last year and beat us two years ago as well,” Key mentioned. “I just really wanted to get them so I had to come out confident. We had energy and we played together.” Key scored 21 factors and grabbed six rebounds to guide the Sun Warriors, a White Division workforce, to a 69-64 win in opposition to the host Eagles, a Red-South/Central workforce. Roosevelt University coach Joe Griffin was on the recreation. Roosevelt is recruiting Lindblom’s Marshun Williams.
Illinois highschool basketball: Holiday Tournament pairings
Please ship pairings to mobrien@suntimes.com to be added to the listing. Effingham Dec. 26Lincoln-Way East vs. Mattoon, 3St. Anthony vs. Pleasant Plains, 6Oak Lawn vs. Lawrenceville, 4:30Teutopolis vs. Brooks, 7:30Champaign Centennial vs. Antioch, 3Central A&M vs. Charleston, 4:30Corliss vs. Dixon, 6Effingham vs. Sacred Heart Griffin, 7:30 Hinsdale Central Dec. 23Homewood-Flossmoor vs. Maine South, 9:30 a.m.St. Charles East vs. Lincoln-Way Central, 11 a.m.Oswego East vs. Rockford Auburn, 12:30Stevenson vs. Glenbrook North, 2St. Rita vs. Willowbrook, 3:45Marian Catholic vs. TF South, 5:15Hinsdale Central vs. Westinghouse, 7DePaul Prep vs. Richards, 8:30 Pontiac Dec. 26Benet vs. Danville, 9 a.m.Peoria Manual vs. Warren, 10:30 a.m.Bloom vs. Lockport, 1Oak Park vs. Plainfield North, 2:30St. Charles North vs. New Trier, 4Curie vs.
Michael O’Brien’s Super 25 Chicago highschool basketball
Bloom’s Dante Maddox, Jr., defends as Marian Catholic’s Yemi Elutilo (5) holds the ball. | Allen Cunningham/For the Sun-Times Three groups be a part of after the primary week of the season. That was one heck of every week. It’s been a very long time for the reason that first week of the season packed such a punch. There have been two heavyweight battles (Morgan Park vs. Young, Marian Catholic vs. Bloom) and several other gamers jumped out of the gates early to ascertain themselves as stars (taking a look at you Brandon Weston and Christian Shumate). Just a few underneath the radar groups additionally had eye-opening begins. Hinsdale South, Proviso
USA Basketball broadcasts ladies’s basketball enlargement, WNBA
LAS VEGAS — Before the WNBA All-Star sport Saturday, USA Basketball introduced its dedication to ladies’s basketball, and the WNBA ought to comply with go well with. With the 2020 Tokyo Games on the horizon, USA Basketball shared its plans to develop the U.S. ladies’s nationwide group program and coaching plan. The two predominant objectives for this system, which is the brainchild of WNBA stars Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi, are to create curiosity for ladies’s basketball and higher put together the U.S. ladies’s group to win a seventh straight Olympic gold medal. Players can be compensated in order that they received’t need to play abroad, making the athletes accessible for appearances throughout the WNBA offseason