Final score: Annawan 59, Sterling Newman 44. Braves advance to tomorrow's 1 p.m. state championship game, their first time playing for a title!
Terry Duckett
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- Faith Anderson checks into the game with 2:24 left, scores on a layup to make it 52-20 with 2:17, then comes back out. Ending on her terms!
- Dom Ferrari went 2-for-3 today with two home runs and four RBIs; he hit three home runs in three state wins and was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player
- Sherrard is also honoring 2005 graduate Bryant J. Luxmore, who joined the Army in 2011 and was killed in action in Afghanistan on June 10, 2012 A former football and baseball standout as a Tiger, Luxmore's No. 5 is being retired today, with his family on hand to accept the honor
- Final score: Annawan 63, Aurora Christian 54. Braves are sectional champions for the first time in nine years!
- Rock Island Legion is Illinois state champions for the first time in 10 years! Post 200 rolls to a 10-0 win over Barrington in a six-inning state title game today at Danville to clinch the state crown RI (26-3) has now won 8 straight postseason games
- Player of the Game: Sherrard senior Faith Anderson -- gets in the game with 2:20 left and scores her final bucket on her final shot
- Rockridge is state-bound! Final: Rockridge 57, Rockford Lutheran 52 The Rockets (27-6) ride a 16-game winning streak to the Final Four and a Thursday afternoon semifinal date with Monticello at the State Farm Center
- Player of the Game: North Scott senior center fielder Brooke Kilburg, who went 2-for-3 with two home runs and five RBIs
- Player of the Game -- Rockridge junior point guard Jase Whiteman. He knocked down 7 of 12 attempts from 3-point range and finished with a game-high 30 points Whiteman also hit 4 straight free throws in the closing seconds to secure the Rockets' trip to Champaign
- Players of the Game: Annawan's all-senior starting five. Every one of them contributed in one way or another to the Braves' first super-sectional win in nine years
- Listed as team manager, Avery Spranger in uniform for Geneseo and enters the game with 1:48 left to play, gets some of the loudest cheers of the whole evening #HungryHobo11
- Player of the Game: Annawan senior forward Ben Buresh -- 26 points (5 of 7 from 3-point range) and 9 rebounds
- Player of the Game: Rockridge freshman forward Landon Bull, who finished with 16 points (6-11 FGs, 3-3 FTs) and snared 6 rebounds Bull scored 10 of his points in the third quarter to help turn the tide for the Rockets