Preps
Plenty of familiar foes will take the mat in the Class 2A Sterling Sectional tonight and Saturday.
INDIANAPOLIS – High school football players must sit out one play next season if their helmets come off while the ball is live.
DeKALB – With their teams warming up Thursday night, DeKalb girls basketball coach Ben Bates told counterpart Brett Goff that Sycamore had the team to beat.
SOUTH BELOIT – The pregame declaration came first.
DeKALB – There’s something to be said for experience. The DeKalb girls bowling team has plenty of it at Cherry Bowl Lanes in Rockford, the site of this weekend’s state meet.
SHABBONA – Hinckley-Big Rock senior Megan Hamm said she’s forgotten about the Royals’ loss to Somonauk in the Little Ten Conference tournament three weeks ago, which coach Greg Burks called the worst game of his coaching career.
February 9, 2012 - 4:23 p.m.
Kaneland gets top seed in Rochelle Regional
Everything about this week has been normal for Kaitlin Phillips and Katie Hollis.
SHABBONA – There was nothing the Genoa-Kingston boys basketball team could do when Indian Creek center Garrison Govig caught the ball deep in the post early in Wednesday’s game.
The Sycamore-DeKalb gymnastics co-op team tied Glenbard West for second place (144.875) and was 1.5 points behind Glenbard North in the Glenbard North Sectional on Wednesday night, but only two points were deducted when all four Barbs fell on the balance beam.
February 8, 2012 - 2:17 p.m.
Spartans vs. Rocks on Feb. 21
Hiawatha’s girls basketball team got a 32-28 win against Alden-Hebron on Tuesday in the Class 1A South Beloit Regional semifinals.
SYCAMORE – Members of the DeKalb-Sycamore co-op girls gymnastics team have participated in big club meets before. Coach Andy Morreale has been there, guiding them through the pressures of hitting spotless routines in those meets.
DeKalb boys basketball team loses to Elgin, 50-48
Our weekly look at the area boys basketball scene
A weekly look at the area girls basketball scene
SHABBONA – Alyssa Arends admits she was a little nervous when Ariel Russell went down to the ground in pain with 7:36 left in the Indian Creek girls basketball team’s regional quarterfinal game against Paw Paw on Monday.
Rachel Torres is a most peculiar entry to the popular sports definition of reluctant star.
Genoa-Kingston’s girls basketball team got 12 points from Rachel Ellstrom and 11 from Andrea Strohmaier, but fell, 54-35, to Byron in the Class 2A Oregon Regional quarterfinals on Monday.
February 6, 2012 - 9:28 p.m.
Kaneland football senior wide receivers Quinn Buschbacher and Sean Carter both have made their college decisions within the past week, each choosing a Wisconsin school.
February 6, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.
It’s easy to play for a winner.
February 6, 2012 - 5:30 a.m.
DeKALB – It took a couple of matches Saturday for it to hit Dylan Vaughn-Low that he was back on the wrestling mats.
Sycamore's defense held Kaneland's boys basketball team to 14 first-half points Saturday, and held on for a 51-42 win.
DeKALB – DeKalb bowler Alyssa Mershon stood out from the crowd at Saturday’s DeKalb Sectional at Mardi Gras Lanes in DeKalb, which the Barbs won with a six-game score of 5,830.
DeKALB – Jake Davis listened. He heard the message from Sycamore wrestling coach Alex Nelson.
SOMONAUK – The Hinckley-Big Rock boys basketball team didn’t just show it’s the team to beat in the Little Ten Conference with a 58-39 LTC tournament championship win over Somonauk on Friday.
A calculated risk has provided Kyle Akins with an opportunity to go on another postseason run.
DeKALB – Maybe a letdown was inevitable. A team can only flirt with perfection for so long. And with DeKalb starters getting well-deserved, garbage-time rest Friday night against Rochelle, something had to give.
The DeKalb-Sycamore co-op girls gymnastics team won the Wheaton Warrenville South Regional on Friday night, scoring 145.2 points to best second-place Wheaton Warrenville South’s 141.525.
GENOA – John Mason isn’t looking for perfection. He doesn’t demand wins either.
SOMONAUK – Hinckley-Big Rock knows it has to play better if it ends the Little Ten Conference boys basketball tournament the way it began.
Update 6:55 p.m: According to an NIU news release, P.J. Fleck has resigned as offensive coordinator just one day after taking the job.
With point guard Mason Lucca at home with the flu, the Genoa-Kingston boys basketball team’s offense sputtered to a 44-30 loss at Harvard on Thursday night.
February 2, 2012 - 4:14 p.m.
H-BR boys get a top seed
SYCAMORE – It was easy to wake up Wednesday morning for Ryan Bartels. Sycamore’s senior quarterback knew what this day meant.
DeKALB – Ben Bates is focused on the big picture.
Andrew Oplt hit a last-second three-pointer to give the Genoa-Kingston boys basketball team a 47-46 victory on Tuesday at G-K.
SOMONAUK – For a little more than a minute during the Hinckley-Big Rock boys basketball team’s Little Ten Conference tournament opener Tuesday, LaMoille was the better team.
To Jaron Todd, the ball always seemed to go in.
A weekly look at the girls basketball scene
Indian Creek’s girls basketball team got 16 points from Ariel Russell, but lost to Paw Paw, 43-33.
Changes in technology have caused dramatic shifts in recruiting
SYCAMORE – Matt Copple heard a sickening popping noise come from his right knee.
Sycamore's Tony O'Donnell finished in 51st place at the boys state bowling tournament in O'Fallon. O'Donnell knocked down 2,434 pins for the state tournament, with a high game Saturday of 246.
STERLING – Too bad their coach wasn't around to see it, because DeKalb put on quite a performance, especially in the opening minutes Saturday night.
GENOA – Genoa-Kingston girls basketball coach John Mason didn’t look frustrated.
STERLING – Paige Lobdell was all set to be the hero until she was trumped by Rachel Torres.
Sycamore bowler Tony O’Donnell finished 30th with a 1,282 two-series pinfall Friday to advance to the finals today in the state finals, a 213-game average that was 10 pins fewer than his season best.
DeKALB – Courtney Bemis thought about the fundamentals.
DeKALB – In the back hallway underneath the Convocation Center, DeKalb guard Rachel Torres flashed a meager smile.
January 27, 2012 - 2:45 p.m.
Taking a look at what the coaches see
January 27, 2012 - 10:43 a.m.
DeKalb guard broke nose three weeks ago
One point guard in today’s matchup between the DeKalb and Sycamore girls basketball teams is lightning-quick. The other is strong and methodical. One will swipe the ball from offensive players and the other will wear down opponents on the defensive end.
Andre Harris knew what section he sat in four years ago when he watched DeKalb play Sycamore at the Convocation Center.
Daily Chronicle sports editor John Sahly and sports reporter Ryan Wood spend their days covering the area’s sports scene. Occasionally, they give their viewpoints on those local sports. In this installment of their 2012 Take 2 column, they discuss tonight’s DeKalb-Sycamore basketball games.
SYCAMORE – Practice was different for Sycamore bowler Tony O’Donnell on Wednesday.
