Known as a terrific defensive team all season, top-seeded Loyola used that key element again on Thursday night and it brought the Ramblers a seventh sectional triumph in program history. Led by senior Angelina Giordano (15 points), senior Nora Stanton (11) and sophomore Paige Engels (9), the top-seeded Ramblers (31-3) posted a 42-34 victory over No. 2 Maine South (24-10) in the Class 4A Glenbrook South sectional title game in Glenview.

Evanston beats the Spartans a third time this season in the second straight regional final between the two basketball programs

Loyola Academy and “underdogs” are rarely part of the same sentence. Yet that’s what senior guard Angelina Giordano tells us of the Ramblers, 30-3 entering Thursday’s Class 4A Glenbrook South sectional championship. “This was supposed to be a rebuilding season for us, but we kind of proved everyone wrong,” she said.

Maine South downed Evanston 43-41 Tuesday the semifinals of the Class 4A Glenbrook South girls basketball semifinals.

Maine South beat New Trier 76-43 Thursday night in a Class 4A regional final girls basketball game.

All season long, Emily Pape has been racking up awards and putting up prodigious numbers.Thus, it’s not surprising that the Maine South senior forward showed a flair for the dramatic in her final regular season home game on Thursday.

Senior Night for Maine South’s girls basketball team on Friday was an outright success. That’s because the Hawks clinched an outright championship in the Central Suburban South with a 48-39 victory over visiting Glenbrook North.

Neither a pair of ACL tears nor a determined Evanston defense were able to stop Brooke Blumenfeld from scoring her 1,000th point

Maine South ran to a 53-20 girls basketball victory over Libertyville in a nonconference battle of a couple of 18 win teams Tuesday night.

Willowbrook point guard Sophie Sullivan and her teammates were upstaged by Maine South forward Emily Pape, who tallied a career-high and school-record 41 points to lead the visiting Hawks to a 71-67 victory.