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Thornton is one of my favorite places to watch a game. The old gym in Harvey has a media table with a wonderful sightline to see all the action and Tai Streets’ teams are always competitive.

The less said about tonight’s game the better. Both Kankakee and Thornton have a lot of work to do over the next few months. Maybe I’ll check in with them again closer to the playoffs.

I’m glad I got a look at those two teams but for whatever reason I almost went up to see Lake Forest against Waukegan. Asa Thomas is always fun to watch and the Bulldogs have a high scoring freshman, Simereon Carter.

It wound up being a double-overtime thriller. Lake Forest won 53-46. Devin Malone led the Bulldogs with 19 and Carter was held to five points. I didn’t see any stats for the Scouts.

This is probably a good time to explain the notebook. There are a lot of new coaches and readers since the last time I did so. Basically, when I get home from whatever game I covered I scour through my Twitter feed, texts and emails and pick out the game scores and highlights that are the most interesting to me.

I tend to see most things that are on Twitter but if you tag @michaelsobrien you are much more likely to get in the notebook. I also try to retweet everything I’m tagged in. My email is [email protected].

So, ranked team or not, please go ahead and send me your scores and highlights. Also, full names are important. If a team just sends out last names they are fairly unlikely to wind up in the notebook. I don’t have time to google a bunch of guys if I don’t know them, sorry. Not everything I’m sent winds up in the notebook, that would be impossible, but I try and get a cross-section of the area represented.

Thanks for reading.

Tuesday’s top games

Mount Carmel 66, St. Laurence 52: The Caravan trailed by nine at the half but got it done. DeAndre Craig scored 14 in the fourth quarter and finished with 25. Tre Marks, who really opened my eyes at the Chicago Elite Classic, had 12 points and 17 rebounds. I know St. Laurence was young last season and I didn’t get the chance to cover them. It appears the Vikings have a team worth checking out.

St. Viator 51, Marian Catholic 48: An ESCC upset! Eli Aldana returned from injury to score 17 points and made the game-winner at the buzzer.

Hyde Park 78, Lindblom 64: The Thunderbirds’ big three put up big numbers. Da’Marion Morris had 20 points and five assists, Jurrell Baldwin added 13 points, 12 rebounds and four assists and Cam Williford had 14 points and 10 assists.

Romeoville 71, Joliet Central 38: The Spartans fell out of the rankings last week but don’t forget about them. This win makes them 5-2. Meyoh Swansey had 18 points and seven assists and Troy Cicero scored 15 against his old team.

Oswego East 56, Yorkville 52: This was probably the place to be tonight but I had just covered the Wolves last week so it wasn’t a fit for my schedule. The Foxes were up by one with 1:45 left but couldn’t hold on and pull off the upset. Mekhi Lowery scored 20 and Jehvion Starwood added 17 for Oswego East. Jory Boley led Yorkville with 18.

Hoffman Estates 70, Elk Grove 48: Big game for DJ Wallace with 19 points, nine rebounds and five blocks. The Hawks are 6-1.

Ag. Science 48, Harlan 36: The number of undefeated teams is slowly decreasing. But the Cyclones are 7-0 and 2-0 in the White-South already. James White scored 12.

TF South 62, Argo 55: The first-ever notebook mention of the Red Wolves. Not sure what I think of that new nickname. Are there really red wolves? I guess I do know what I think. We have way too many big cat or big dog nicknames. Caleb Newman led TF South with 21 and Davonte Evans poured in 29 for the Argonauts (now that’s a nickname).

Kenwood 85, Brooks 40: There was a big freshman performance in this one. Noah Mister scored 18 and was 6 of 8 from three-point range. Dai Dai Ames added 16 and Aleks Alston scored 14.

Simeon 104, Morgan Park 31: Oh my. I’m told that the Wolverines didn’t even shoot for the final three minutes of the Battle of Vincennes. Sam Lewis led the way with 19 points and Miles Rubin added 15 points and eight rebounds.

Francis Parker 72, Elgin Academy 33: Payton Pitts, a player I’d like to get around to see this season, scored 24 and Caleb David addies 22 points and seven assists.

Prospect 49, Palatine 48: Another upset. The Knights were just 1-5 heading into this one and Palatine was expected to be one of the top teams in the MSL. I didn’t see any Prospect stats but Tyler Swierczek and Connor May each had 13 for the Pirates.

Wheeling 45, Schaumburg 42: RJ Gamble scored 19 and Josh Hutchinson added 12. Wheeling is fantastic about emailing scores and highlights (win or lose) and even include their opponents’ stats. Kudos to Tom Antosz for that. Josh Carter led the Saxons with 12 points.

Barrington 71, Buffalo Grove 45: Remember where the Broncos finished the season last year? They lost an awful lot but are still a perfect 6-0. Dillon Schmidt scored 18 and Donovan Nichols added 17.

Curie 67, Phillips 64: Closer than expected

Taft 69, Niles West 56: I really enjoyed watching Taft at the Chicago Elite Classic. Andre Harris is clearly doing a good job with the group. The Eagles were unselfish and played so crisply together they were more than the sum of their parts. And that was in a loss. Lyle Scibor led them with 20 points in tonight’s win and Frank Paszkowski added 15.

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Vincent Rainey was the leading scorer in some of last season’s biggest games. That experience is certainly helpful, but everything has changed for Rainey and Thornton this year.

“It’s been a big switch,” Rainey said. “Last year I was just a pick and pop shooter. This year I have the ball in my hands and they are counting on me to play defense and be a leader.”

Rainey came through when it counted in Thornton’s 38-32 win against Kankakee on Tuesday in Harvey. The senior made three of four free throws in the final 1:30 and scored the basket that put it out of reach for the Kays.

“We just had to be feisty,” Rainey said. “We had to come out as dogs and finish the game.”

Neither team had much success offensively. Kankakee was 9-for-51 shooting and Thornton was 13 of 41.

“Two great defensive teams,” Thornton coach Tai Streets joked. “That was an ugly, ugly game. That’s how we have to play. It’s going to be tough all year for us. We just have to find a way to win. I’ll take it a win any way I can get it. It’s going to be a struggle.”

Thornton (2-3, 1-1 Southland) turned the ball over 21 times. With all the missed shots and turnovers, rebounding was crucial. Thurman Thomas, a 6-4 senior, stepped up for the Wildcats with 15 rebounds.

“I knew I could use my athleticism to crash the boards,” Thomas said. “That’s a big win for us. We need it to boost our momentum and get us going.”

Rainey scored 16 points and Tiyuan McDaniel added seven.

Kankakee (4-1, 0-1) is playing without its leading returning scorer and rebounder, 6-4 senior Devon Prude. He’s out with an injured ankle and is expected back this weekend.

“Missing [Prude] didn’t show in the first few games but it showed tonight,” Kankakee coach Chris Pickett said.

Junior Larenz Walters led the Kays with 13 points and CaRon Johnson added seven.

“We shot badly against Carbondale the other night but we were able to make baskets when it counted,” Pickett said. “That didn’t happen tonight.”

Kankakee only managed one field goal in the fourth quarter. But Thornton only had two.

“I’m going to keep at them,” Streets said. “I’m not ever going to give up. You never know. No one is great, besides Simeon.

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SAN DIEGO — White Sox fans hoping to hear about player acquisitions Tuesday had to settle for talk of current players bouncing back and playing with chips on their shoulders and being more motivated next season on the second day of the winter meetings.

”We’re having conversations, a little bit more trade than free agent today,” general manager Rick Hahn said. ”We’ll see if something comes together in the next 24 hours before these meetings end [Wednesday].

”Our preference is for something to come together, but we’re not going to force it. If it requires some uncharacteristic patience from those of us upstairs, then so be it. We’ll wait until things properly line up for us.”

Corner-outfield help is the top priority, followed by second base for the Sox, who signed free-agent starter Mike Clevinger on Monday.

Clevinger has something to prove after a subpar season with the Padres, and every Sox player has something he can work on after the team finished 81-81 in 2022. Hahn said that will be a recurring theme.

”This is a team that certainly, as a unit, knows that we were disappointing last year,” he said. ”You’re going to hear from several individuals that they have something to prove this year, and we like that.”

Count catcher Yasmani Grandal among them. Asked whether he was satisfied with the catching position as is with Grandal and Seby Zavala, Hahn said Grandal, who struggled at the plate and was hurt last season, ”when healthy has the talent to remain one of the elite catchers in the league.”

”He’ll be the first to tell you that due to health and other reasons, he didn’t perform at the level that he’s accustomed to in ’22, and him bouncing back in ’23 is important.”

Trade chatter

Hahn referred to closer Liam Hendriks being discussed in trade talks as ”just us doing our job.”

”Our pitching is viewed as an area of strength,” Hahn said. ”Obviously in this game, that’s something that’s coveted. We’re going to hear from teams with interest. We’re not doing our job if we’re not listening to what ideas people present.

”At the end, we’re certainly not out there shopping any individual player. But we can’t be close-minded to any ideas that may show up.”

Sox in World Baseball Classic

Third baseman Yoan Moncada and center fielder Luis Robert will play for Cuba in the World Baseball Classic for the first time, and shortstop Tim Anderson will play for the United States.

Manager Pedro Grifol said he sees the benefit in that, even though they might miss weeks of spring training because ”they’ve got to be ready to go at the beginning of March.”

The pressure will be real and the experience beneficial because of it.

”That’s the big stage,” Grifol said.

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NEWARK, N.J. — When Lukas Reichel woke up Tuesday in Rockford, he didn’t realize his first NHL appearance of the season was imminent.

But 800 miles east, Jonathan Toews was simultaneously waking up with flu-like symptoms in the Blackhawks’ Newark hotel, setting in motion a sequence of events that led to Reichel skating on the second line in the Hawks’ 3-0 loss to the Devils.

“It was pretty quick,” Reichel said. “Straight to the airport, driving an hour, and then the plane, hour and a half, and then straight to the rink.”

Reichel, the Hawks’ 20-year-old top forward prospect, didn’t get to take a nap or even eat lunch — he instead relied on “power bars and a banana” — but he still played 13:58 in his 12th career NHL appearance.

“He skated well,” coach Luke Richardson said. “He had a couple good moves with the puck tonight, and he showed some flash. It’s a tough game to come in — that team comes at you hard. And he didn’t get a lot of time on the power play, [where] I’m sure he’s a little more creative.”

Toews had made a late-afternoon push to play, but Richardson ultimately decided to hold him out. He then shuffled the lines to integrate Reichel, who primarily played center last season but who has moved back to left wing — the position he was originally drafted to play — this season.

He was primarily deployed next to Jason Dickinson, with Taylor Raddysh on the opposite wing. Philipp Kurashev, meanwhile, moved up to the first line — next to Patrick Kane and Max Domi — and also took over Toews’ bumper role on the top power-play unit.

Offense was nonetheless hard to find. The Hawks produced some odd-man rushes and attacking shifts in the first period, but those became less frequent as the night progressed. The Devils enjoyed a 36-18 advantage in scoring chances.

By the end, things felt very similar to the 3-0 defeat Sunday against the Islanders. The Hawks have now been shut out in consecutive games for the first time since 2015.

“[You] can’t win if you don’t score,” defenseman Jack Johnson said. “We had tons of chances. It wasn’t like we didn’t get our looks. We just [need] to bear down and score. A couple missed the net, [and you] can’t score if you don’t hit the net.”

Unfortunately for Reichel, probably his most notable moment was a defensive coverage mixup on his fourth shift. It led to a goal against when Devils star Jack Hughes found Dougie Hamilton wide open on the weak side of the Hawks’ zone. Reichel had just come on during a line change and didn’t identify in time that Hamilton, despite being on the opposite side, was theoretically his man to mark.

Other than that, though, Reichel looked like one of the Hawks’ more impressive players, showing off his agility, elusiveness and vision in tight spaces on several occasions.

The league-leading Devils play at a speed few other teams can match, the Hawks included, but Reichel demonstrated an ability to — at least individually — match their pace. He was one of only four Hawks to finish with a positive expected-goals ratio during five-on-five play. He also drew a penalty when he took a late hit from Devils defenseman Brendan Smith.

“We all, as a team, can create more offense,” Reichel said. “But overall, it was solid game.”

Richardson didn’t indicate how long Reichel’s call-up would last, but the Hawks have generally emphasized patience with him.

He has thoroughly dominated the AHL — he touts 23 points in 19 games this season, including nine points in his last five games — but hasn’t yet proven he’s ready to handle a top-six NHL role on an every-night basis. It’s possible, though, this could be his chance to prove that.

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Lukas Reichel has been recalled by the Blackhawks from Rockford

The Chicago Blackhawks today announced that they have recalled forward Lukas Reichel from the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League.

Reichel, 20, ranks tied for ninth among all AHL skaters with 23 points (10 goals, 13 assists) in 19 games this season. He’s currently riding a five-game point streak with the IceHogs and has four goals and five assists over that stretch.

In addition, the franchise placed goaltender Petr Mrazek (groin) on injured reserve retroactive to Dec. 3. while forward Jonathan Toews will not play in tonight’s game versus New Jersey Devils due to a non-COVID related illness.

The Blackhawks want Reichel to continue developing in Rockford this season, but the call-up is a nice little reward for Chicago’s No. 17 overall pick in 2020. He had only one point (an assist) in 11 games last season with the Blackhawks and averaged 13:11 of ice time.

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SAN DIEGO — Pedro Grifol has a lot to do and prove in 2023 as he takes over as manager of a White Sox team that went 81-81 in former manager Tony La Russa’s second year.

Grifol will be asked to prepare the Sox better and to get more out of the roster. Core players like Yoan Moncada, Luis Robert and Eloy Jimenez need to stay healthy and live up to their ability.

If the Sox have any chance of being a championship caliber team in what should be middle of their contention window, their big-money core of young talents signed to long-term deals need to perform like championship caliber players. That falls on them, but it also falls on Grifol, a relationship builder who got the most out of players like All-Star catcher Salvador Perez, when he was a coach with the Royals.

It’s often said the most important trait of a good manager is one who’s players play hard for him.

“It’s everything, really,” Grifol said Tuesday at the winter meetings. “When players want to get to the ballpark to play for each other and play for an organization and a manager and a staff, everything comes together.”

Grifol also wants to maintain a fun environment, something that was common under manager Rick Renteria but fleeting under La Russa, who managed two seasons after Renteria was fired. Pitcher Lucas Giolito often said fun was lacking and needed last season.

“That enjoyment that players need to be able to perform on a daily basis and motivate themselves on a daily basis and be motivated by us, it’s really important,” Grifol said.

“So part of my job is to delegate to our staff, allow them to work, allow the players to be themselves, whatever that is. And obviously we’ll have our rules here and there. Everybody’s got to stay in between those lines, but for the most part, those lines are flexible. Go ahead and be yourself and enjoy the game.”

“When you get that type of environment, you’re setting yourself up for good things.”

Good things, not injuries and under-performance, will be required from Robert, Moncada and Jimenez.

Robert will earn $9.5 million in the fourth year of a six-year, $50 million deal. He played in 98 games in 2022, batting .284/.319/.426 with 12 homers. Battling wrist problems in the second half, one of several physical ailments that bothered him, Robert did not homer and had five doubles in August and September.

His biggest achievement of 2022 was buying a $12 million home in Weston, Florida.

“My first impression on Luis is this guy’s an MVP candidate when I first laid eyes on him,” said Grifol, who has seen plenty of Robert as an AL Central foe. There’s nothing on the baseball field he can’t do.

“We’ve just got to keep him healthy.”

Grifol, new hitting coach Jose Castro and field coordinator Mike Tosar visited Robert and his family, spending “quality time” at Robert’s new digs which includes a hitting cage. Grifol said.

“He’s excited to get going,” Grifol said. “He’s in the process of getting healthy. He feels great. So we’re looking for big things from him this year.”

Moncada batted .212/.273/.354 with 12 homers and 51 RBI in 104 games.

He earns $17 million in 2023 in the fourth year of a seven-year, $70 million deal. Since batting .315/.367/.548 with 25 homers in 144 games in 2019 and then signing his deal, Moncada has disappointed offensively.

Jimenez will earn $9.5 million in the fifth year of a $43 million deal. Jimenez was held to 84 games because of a hamstring injury but batted .295/.358/.500 with 16 homers in 84 games. When healthy, he can be an offensive force.

“They have to want to be great, they have to want to work,” general manager Rick Hahn said Tuesday of the players. “And they have to want to be part of a championship caliber organization. The manager and the coaches play a role in creating the culture for the opportunity for that person to thrive, where they understand the expectations, where they are held accountable for their actions whether they are living up to those standards or not. On the opportunities where they are not, there are repercussions.

“Pedro and his staff are going to thrive in that area.”

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SAN DIEGO – The Cubs made their first big move of the offseason on Tuesday, agreeing to terms with center fielder Cody Bellinger on a one-year deal worth $17.5 million, a Sun-Times source confirmed.

“It is a really good fit,” Cubs manager David Ross said in abstract, while the move has yet to be made official, “from a perspective of, it is great defense, great bass running, left handed bat with the potential to have an uptick offensively.”

Bellinger landed on the free agent market when the Dodgers non-tendered him last month. He won the NL MVP just three years ago. But his offensive production has slipped in the years since. He was hampered by injuries in the 2021 season, and his batting average dipped to .165. This past year, he hit .210 with 19 home runs.

“He’s a player probably a lot of teams are surprised is available,” Bellinger’s agent, Scott Boras, said earlier on Tuesday. “A 27-year-old, MVP-type guy who suffered an injury and is getting his strength back, I think there’ s a lot of teams that are looking at that as a very serious upside.”

Boras said he’d received multi-year offers for Bellinger, but they preferred a one-year deal.

If Bellinger has a bounce-back year with the Cubs, he’d hit free agency again next year with more leverage.

“There are certain baseball truisms that I think are true,” president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer said Monday, “like, being strong up the middle really helps.”

Signing Bellinger is the Cubs’ first step to strengthening their roster up the middle of the field. Adding at shortstop and catcher would continue that process.

Both Hoyer and Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts have discussed the team’s financial flexibility this offseason. Hoyer said in October that if he asked for “a significant amount of money” to sign one or more free agent targets, he was sure the Cubs would have the resources to do so.

That’s translated into an approach to free agency that’s made an impression on agents.

Said Boras: “I think the Tom Tom drum is finally beating again.”

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Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the office held by Lake County Circuit Court Clerk Erin Cartwright Weinstein.

A jury awarded more than $2.6 million to three former Lake County employees who claimed they were fired by Circuit Court Clerk Erin Cartwright Weinstein because they supported her opponent in the 2016 election.

One of Weinstein’s first acts after taking office in December 2016, after defeating incumbent Keith Brin, was to fire three of Brin’s former top deputies — Michelle Higgins, Tiffany Deram and Joshua Smothers.

While Weinstein and the county attorneys offered multiple reasons for terminating the three during six days of trial testimony, the verdict returned Friday showed jurors believed Weinstein fired the workers because they weren’t on her team, attorney Paul Vickrey said.

“I think the jury was sending a message,” Vickrey said Monday, noting jurors’ award increased the amount of punitive damages for each of the three plaintiffs to $75,000 from the $50,000 they had requested.

“Dedicated, competent civil servants should not have to worry about losing their jobs every four years for exercising their First Amendment rights on their own personal time,” Vickrey said.

In an email response to questions Monday, Weinstein denied the firings were tied to the workers’ support for Brin.

“I am very disappointed in the verdict,” Weinstein wrote. “I would never terminate someone’s employment for supporting my opponent. I did what I believed was in the best interest of my administration. The attorney general’s office is currently working on post-trial motions, and reviewing the possibility of an appeal.”

A spokeswoman for Attorney General Kwame Raoul declined to comment on the case.

Higgins, Deram and Smothers had actively campaigned for Brin in the months before they were fired. Weinstein, her husband or Weinstein’s top deputy, Donna Hamm, had seen the three workers marching in parades alongside Brin or at other political events throughout the campaign, according to records in the case.

Higgins had worked in the clerk’s office since 1985 and was chief of the criminal courts division when she was fired in December 2016. Deram, who had worked in the office since 1998, was deputy chief of the records division. Smothers, who had worked for the clerk since 2007, was supervisor of the Round Lake branch court. The three had argued that their jobs did not involve making policy decisions and that political alignment with the clerk was not a valid job requirement.

In depositions, Weinstein admitted that she had consulted the county human resources department about firing the employees the week before she took office, and that she did not review their personnel files before telling them to clean out their desks, according to court records.

Including punitive damages, compensation for pain and suffering, lost wages and pension, Higgins was awarded $1.1 million; Deram received $1 million; and Smothers $542,000. Weinstein won a second term as clerk in 2020.

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Tuesday, December 6, 2022

CATHOLIC LEAGUE

De La Salle at DePaul, 7:00

Marmion at Fenwick, 7:00

Montini at St. Rita, 7:00

Providence at Leo, 7:00

Providence-St. Mel at Brother Rice, 7:00

St. Laurence at Mount Carmel, 7:00

EAST SUBURBAN CATHOLIC

Carmel at Nazareth, 7:00

Joliet Catholic at St. Patrick, 7:00

Marian Catholic at St. Viator, 7:00

Marist at Notre Dame, 7:00

ILLINOIS CENTRAL EIGHT

Coal City at Wilmington, 7:00

Herscher at Lisle, 6:45

Manteno at Reed-Custer, 6:45

Streator at Peotone, 7:00

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL

Elgin Academy at Francis Parker, 6:00

Latin at Morgan Park Academy, 6:00

University High at North Shore, 6:30

INTERSTATE EIGHT

Ottawa at Kaneland, 7:00

Rochelle at Plano, 7:00

Sandwich at Morris, 7:00

LITTLE TEN

Hiawatha at Earlville, 7:00

Hinckley-Big Rock at DePue, 7:00

Indian Creek at Serena, 7:00

LaMoille at Newark, 5:30

Somonauk at IMSA, 7:00

METRO PREP

Universal at CPSA, 5:30

NOBLE LEAGUE – GOLD

Bulls Prep at Noble Academy, 7:00

Butler at Comer, 7:00

Johnson at Rowe-Clark, 7:00

NORTH SUBURBAN

Mundelein at Zion-Benton, 7:00

Stevenson at Lake Zurich, 7:00

Warren at Libertyville, 7:00

Waukegan at Lake Forest, 7:00

NORTHEASTERN ATHLETIC

Mooseheart at South Beloit, 7:00

Westminster Christian at Harvest Christian, 6:00

PUBLIC LEAGUE RED-SOUTH / CENTRAL

Brooks at Kenwood, 5:00

Lindblom at Hyde Park, 7:00

Morgan Park at Simeon, 5:00

Perspectives-Lead at Longwood, 6:30

Phillips at Curie, 5:00

PUBLIC LEAGUE WHITE-CENTRAL

Catalyst-Maria at Kennedy, 5:00

Englewood STEM at Dunbar, 5:00

Hubbard at DuSable, 5:00

King at Bogan, 5:00

Urban Prep-Englewood at Richards (Chgo), 5:00

PUBLIC LEAGUE WHITE-SOUTH

Agricultural Science at Harlan, 5:00

Dyett at Fenger, 5:00

South Shore at Corliss, 5:00

Urban Prep-Bronzeville at ACE Amandla, 5:00

Vocational at UC-Woodlawn

PUBLIC LEAGUE BLUE-CENTRAL

Back of the Yards at Excel-Englewood, 5:00

Horizon-Southwest at Hancock, 5:00

Kelly at Instituto Health, 5:00

Solorio at ACERO-Garcia, 5:00

Tilden at ACERO-Soto, 5:00

PUBLIC LEAGUE BLUE-SOUTH

Air Force at Bowen, 5:00

Goode at EPIC, 5:00

Hirsch at Chicago Military, 5:00

Julian at Excel-South Shore, 5:00

Washington at Carver, 5:00

RIVER VALLEY

Beecher at Clifton Central, 7:00

Gardner-So. Wilmington at Grace Christian, 7:00

Grant Park at Donovan, 7:00

Momence at Illinois Lutheran, 7:00

Tri-Point at St. Anne, 7:00

SOUTH SUBURBAN – CROSSOVER

Argo at Thornton Fr. South, 6:30

Evergreen Park at Oak Forest, 6:30

Hillcrest at Eisenhower, 6:30

Lemont at Richards, 6:30

Oak Lawn at Bremen, 6:00

Reavis at Thornton Fr. North, 6:30

Shepard at Tinley Park, 6:30

SOUTHLAND

Kankakee at Thornton, 6:30

SOUTHWEST PRAIRIE – EAST

Joliet Central at Romeoville, 6:30

Plainfield East at Joliet West, 6:30

Plainfield South at Plainfield Central, 6:30

SOUTHWEST PRAIRIE – WEST

Plainfield North at Minooka, 6:30

West Aurora at Oswego, 6:30

Yorkville at Oswego East, 6:30

UPSTATE EIGHT

East Aurora at Elgin, 7:00

Fenton at Bartlett, 7:00

South Elgin at Larkin, 7:00

Streamwood at Glenbard East, 5:30

West Chicago at Glenbard South, 7:00

NON CONFERENCE

Antioch at Johnsburg, 7:00

Aurora Central at Aurora Christian, 7:30

Buffalo Grove at Barringon, 7:00

Christian Liberty at Alden-Hebron, 7:30

DRW Prep at Austin, 5:00

Elk Grove at Hoffman Estates, 7:00

Elmwood Park at IC Catholic, 7:30

Grayslake North at Deerfield, 7:00

Hersey at Conant, 7:00

Intrinsic-Belmont at ITW-Speer, 6:30

LaLumiere-Blue (IN) at Evanston, 7:00

Lincoln-Way East at Crete-Monee, 5:00

Lockport at York, 7:00

Lowpoint-Washburn at Princeville, 7:30

Maine West at Addison Trail, 6:30

MCC Prep at Islamic Foundation, 6:00

Naperville North at Wheaton Academy, 7:30

Niles West at Taft, 6:30

Oregon at West Carroll, TBA

Parkview Christian at Christian Life, 7:30

Phoenix at Chicago Military, 5:00

Prospect at Palatine, 7:00

Richmond-Burton at Round Lake, 7:30

Ridgewood at Riverside-Brookfield, 7:00

Roanoke-Benson at Cornerstone Christian, 7:30

Rochelle Zell at Cristo Rey-St. Martin, 5:30

Rolling Meadows at Fremd, 7:00

Schaumburg Christian at Families of Faith, 7:15

St. Edward at St. Francis, 7:00

Urban Prep-West at Juarez, 5:00

Westmont at Timothy Christian, 7:30

Wheeling at Schaumburg, 7:00

Woodstock at Sycamore, 7:00

Woodstock North at Genoa-Kingston, 7:00

HALL

Mendota vs. LaSalle-Peru, 5:00

Princeton vs. Rock Falls, 6:30

Hall vs. Putnam County, 8:00

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