Montini senior forward Shannon Blacher is cognizant of the fact that the Broncos are going to get the best an opponent has, especially in the playoffs.

Friday night’s Class 3A regional championship between Burlington Central and Rockford Boylan was a very close contest down to the last three minutes of the game.

Huntley’s Sammi Campanelli wiped tears onto her jersey Friday as she reminisced about her time as a Red Raider after a 43-40 loss to Guilford in the Class 4A Huntley regional championship.

It was a good news, bad news night for Dundee-Crown. Good news: The Chargers scored the first basket of the game. Bad news: Barrington scored the next 11 points to win the Jacobs 4A regional final Thursday.

Crystal Lake South coach Matt LePage’s only focus in practice has been on defense since the Gators lost to Prairie Ridge — their third in four games — on Friday.

Huntley hasn’t trailed much in Fox Valley Conference games this season but found itself down early against a Hampshire team determined to hand the Red Raiders their first FVC loss.

Crystal Lake Central’s Ella Madalinski found her shot in the second quarter against Burlington Central, so her Tigers’ teammates kept looking her way.

Burlington Central twice made big scoring runs at Hampshire – netting 10 straight points in the third quarter and nine straight points in the fourth – as the Whip-Purs looked to put the Rockets away Friday in their Fox Valley Conference game.

Crystal Lake South’s Gabrielle Toussaint enjoys sharing the basketball with teammates.

You just needed to take a look at the stat sheet and see how many turnovers Burlington Central committed to figure out who won.