Big-time college recruits and state title contenders take the court next week when the high school girls basketball season tips off. Check out your team's prospects here.

Lyons Township's volleyball team proved it deserved to be playing for the Class 4A state title Saturday at Redbird Arena in Normal.

Jacki Gulczynski leads optimistic Hawks after controversial end to last season.

Riverside Brookfield is coming off one of the best years in school history, a season that featured a school-record 17-game winning streak to start the season and ended with a 73-51 loss to St. Joseph in the regional finals.

Lyons Township was a young team last season with three sophomores on the varsity squad. That didn’t stop the LT sophomore team from posting an undefeated 21-0 record for the season, a mark that has Lions coach Dawn Schabacker excited about the potential for this year’s varsity.

At the Mother McAuley Invite on Sept. 19, Nazareth edged then-undefeated St. Ignatius.

Basketball previews for area girls teams.

Twelve minutes into the second half of a scoreless Class 3A championship soccer game Saturday, Lyons Township junior Horacio Sanchez locked in on his target — a tiny window of space 30 yards away only he seemed to see — let loose and fired.
 

Sam Telfer’s all-state finish boosted Lyons Township’s boys cross country team into fifth place Saturday in Peoria.

Zach Pearsall, Chris Meingast and Billy McGuinness joined the Lyons Township varsity soccer team in 2006 as naive freshmen with lofty dreams of a state title. Four years later, that naivety turned into reality.

As the Western Sun sets, Glenbard South looks to the east. The Raiders will be the newest member of the Metro Suburban Conference when the 2010-11 season kicks off.

The Lyons Township boys soccer team did something Tuesday no other team could do all year: Beat top-ranked Neuqua Valley. The Lions avenged two regular season losses to the Wildcats and earned a berth in the state tournament.

Aaron Nagel was a linebacker at Notre Dame, one of college football’s Holy Grails, but he wasn’t happy. The Lemont graduate did not like the Fighting Irish’s coaches. They weren’t the kind of people he thought they would be back when he committed to play football there. He wanted something different. That’s when he rediscovered his youth.

Due to field conditions, Saturday's Class 3A Hinsdale Central soccer sectional final has been moved to Naperville North High School.