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The Geneva girls and St. Charles North boys won titles at the Geneva Invite on Saturday.
Lake Park exploded for 12 runs in the top of the fourth inning to overwhelm Batavia 17-0 in DuKane Conference baseball action on Tuesday in a four-inning game.
Batavia won the 4x800 relay and 4x400 relay, and five individual events in between, in dominating the track events at the Les Hodge Invitational on Friday in Batavia.
Trailing 34-27 at the start of the second half, Kaneland tightened up at both ends of the court to pull ahead of the host Cadets, ending the period with a 42-40 lead. The Knights remained dominant in the final frame for a 58-50 win and a berth in their own sectional.
Davon Grant scored 18 points, all in the first half, as the DeKalb boys basketball team knocked off Jefferson and advanced to the Class 4A DeKalb Regional Championship game.
Everett Willis missed two free throws but snared the rebound after the second attempt and made the putback at the buzzer to pull out a 47-45 win over Dwight in Mondays’s Class 1A Somonauk Regional quarterfinal.
St. Charles East won a hard fought double-overtime 85-76 victory over Wheaton North in the Class 4A DeKalb Regional championship.
Wheaton North overcame a sluggish first half to down host DeKalb 57-44 in Monday’s second Class 4A DeKalb Regional semifinal. DeKalb’s tenacious defense had the Falcons trailing the Barbs, 25-24 at halftime. In the second half, the Falcons found their inside game.
Batavia scored 26 fourth-quarter points to break open a tight game with Wheaton Warrenville South and win its senior night contest, 58-44 Friday.
Brooke Carlson passed Hannah Frazier as Batavia’s all-time scoring leader Thursday night in the Bulldogs’ DuKane Conference battle with St. Charles East.
For the third year in a row, Oswego co-op took top honors, scoring 138.5 points. Sam Phillip, an Oswego junior, also pulled off the three-peat, earning her third all-around Upstate Eight first-place medal, tallying 35.9 points. The team won all four events.
Quinn Carrier's second-quarter surge powered Sycamore past DeKalb in the annual rivalry game at the NIU Convocation Center.
Geneva kept close with Lake Park through one quarter Thursday but the Lancers' elite defense took control to hand the Vikings a 53-18 DuKane Conference loss.
At Saturday’s DuKane Conference Meet, St. Charles East took first in eight of the 14 weight classes to repeat as meet champions with 325 points on their home mats.
Lake Park scored the first 10 points and never looked back in beating Batavia 48-29 on Friday to remain undefeated in the DuKane Conference.