Willowbrook’s boys basketball team has found its game and extended its winning streak out to eight games after a narrow 73-69 victory over Libertyville in the championship game of the MLK Lake Zurich tournament on Monday.

Saturday afternoon legs. Which team can get theirs back first is usually the winner. That’s exactly what happened Saturday in the semifinals of the 9th annual MLK boys basketball tournament at Lake Zurich. It was Libertyville that found its wheels first as the Wildcats knocked off Glenbrook North 52-38.

Libertyville junior forward/center Cole Bonder picked the ideal time to track down his lone offensive rebound Friday night — 20 seconds left in regulation, with his team down 49-48 in a North Suburban Conference boys basketball game at rival Stevenson. The 6-foot-6 Wildcat, near the top of the key, then whipped a pass to his older brother, 6-8 senior forward Chase Bonder, who nailed a 3-pointer 3 seconds later to put the visitors up 51-49. “That was a game-saver, Cole’s offensive rebound,” Chase Bonder said after Libertyville’s pulsating 51-50 victory in Lincolnshire.

Glenbrook South defeated Libertyville 60-43 Wednesday night in the semifinals of the Wheeling Hardwood Classic.

Rolling Meadows senior guard Orlando Thomas likes to sum up his game with two clips as his lone pinned tweet on his Twitter site. Thomas might want to add a few more highlights to his Twitter site, as he showed a diverse and athletic game, scoring 10 points and dishing out 6 assists in a 59-45 victory over host Libertyville Saturday in a nonconference boys basketball game.

Nothing seemed to bother Libertyville’s Chase Bonder on Monday night. He finished with 23 points to spark the Wildcats to a 60-49 nonconference boys basketball victory over Carmel in Mundelein.

Libertyville got as close as 3 points twice in the second quarter and trailed only 48-42 at 5:51 of the fourth before bowing to Lake Forest 60-49 Saturday in a North Suburban Conference boys basketball game.

Libertyville’s boys basketball team used a pair of runs in the fourth quarter and overtime to beat St. Viator 48-41 in the opening game of Day 4 of the 44th annual St. Viator Thanksgiving Classic Friday afternoon in Arlington Heights.

Here’s a look at the boys basketball season in the North Suburban Conference

Even though they are 6-foot-8 brothers, Chase Bonder, a senior, and Cole, a junior, don’t always have that brotherly love when they play one-on-one in their Libertyville driveway. “We can get into it when we play against each other in the driveway or at the gym,” said Chase Bonder. “We play each other tough so we can both get better. We’re looking forward to playing with each other on the floor. We’ve played a lot of one-on-one. We know how each other plays and we learn from each other.”