Dan Rafter

Bloom coach Gary Meyer celebrated his first tournament championship Saturday night after his Trojans beat Crete-Monee 58-53 in the Big Dipper final at Rich South. But with four minutes to...

Elgin tied the state record with its 51st consecutive home victory Tuesday night with a 77-40 trouncing of DeKalb. Leslie Schock's 19 points, Tina Wenckaitis' 16 points and Melissa Parker's...

The Benet/Naperville North tournament has claimed its first victim. Wheaton-Warrenville South (6-4) used a 12-0 third-quarter run to pull away from No. 18 Bloom Tuesday and hand the Trojans their...

The upset was worth the wait for DuSable. The Panthers had traveled to No. 8 South Shore (5-2) on Thursday, but South Shore had rescheduled the contest and hadn't done...

As if the story line weren't intriguing enough, Ryan Hogan decided to add his own chapter Saturday night. The junior forward, who tore his anterior cruciate ligament last year and...

It's not as if third-ranked Resurrection didn't give No. 6 Fremd a chance to win the non-conference battle that took place Thursday night in Palatine. By late in the fourth...

Buffalo Grove 80, Conant 56: Cherise Compobasso's 25 points and 11 rebounds combined with 16 points by Kate Harker helped No. 11 Buffalo Grove (5-1) bring Conant (6-1) back down...

Top-ranked Stevenson survived its first scare of the season in a North Suburban Conference opener Tuesday night in Gurnee. With her team trailing host Warren by three with six seconds...

Joliet 60, Homewood-Flossmoor 53: No. 17 Joliet (6-0) led throughout as Machell Roberts scored 15 points and Lori Shelby added 12. Washington 64, Morgan Park 34: After a brutal non-conference...

Last year Joliet rode the broad shoulders of Gary Bell to a fourth-place finish at the Class AA boys basketball state tournament, while Joliet Catholic suffered through an 11-15 season....