Phil English

The final score of Proviso East's 62-51 victory over West Aurora on Tuesday night didn't really tell the story of the Class 4A supersectional game at Hinsdale Central. Though the...

For most of Friday night, Bloom looked like it was going to fall victim to what has been a fatal trademark of this week's Class 4A Lockport Sectional — good...

In perhaps the ugliest postseason basketball game of the year, Homewood-Flossmoor center Tim Williams did his job well. Williams scored only three points Wednesday, but pulled down eight rebounds and...

Young's Class 4A regional championship victory Friday featured a lot of good, plenty of bad and an awful lot of ugly. The good: Young sophomore Jahlil Okafor had 26 points...

Tyler Sutton has been attending Neuqua Valley regional basketball games since the school opened in 1997. It's one of the perks that goes with being the coach's son. Never had...

Montini's 53-12 victory against Yorkville in the Class 2A team state championship over the weekend in Bloomington should have silenced any doubters as to which program was the best in...

Final team records; previous rank in parentheses. 1. Montini 21-0 (1) Unquestionably No. 1. 2. Sandburg 27-2 (2) Thrilling comeback to 3A title. 3. Oak Park 20-4 (5) Strong postseason...

Montini's 53-12 victory against Yorkville in the Class 2A team state championship over the weekend in Bloomington should have silenced any doubters as to which program was the best in...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — The defending state champions' coach was defending his team. In the heat of the moment, though, Glenbard North coach Mark Hahn may have cost the Panthers a...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — In one of the strangest team wrestling state tournaments in recent years, Sandburg saved its strangest for last. The No. 2 Eagles trailed Oak Park 14 halfway...