April 19, 2024
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Bureau Valley wins SRC seventh-grade title

By Kevin Hieronymus

Bureau Valley captured the SRC seventh-grade championship, defeating Ottawa 39-35. Team members are (front row, from left) Caitlin Egan, Lillian Wray, Lily Salinas, Mya Nugent, Brooke Helms, Mallory Maubach-Williams and Natalie Edlefson; and (back row) Tatiana Longmire, Sierrah Taylor, Brinley Doty, Maggie Besler, Dani Morris, Libby Endress, Quincy Hochstatter, Hannah Fritz and Coach Brent Jamison.

MANLIUS — The Bureau Valley Storm took the No. 1 seed into the Starved Rock Conference seventh-grade girls basketball tournament and finished No. 1.

The Storm rode a 33-point performance by Libby Endress to a come-from-behind 39-35 win over No. 2 Ottawa in the Storm Gym at Bureau Valley Tuesday night.

Endress made 13 of 15 attempts from the free-throw line, including 8-9 in the fourth quarter, as the Storm rallied from a 31-23 deficit heading into the final six minutes. The Storm outscored Ottawa 16-4 in the fourth quarter.

Sierrah Taylor scored a basket to tie the game at 34 with a little over a minute left to play.

The Storm (16-2) also got four points from Dani Morris.

Peru beat Princeton Logan 25-23 for third place. Logan scored with seven seconds remaining and stole the inbounds pass and got off a shot at the buzzer.

The eighth-grade finals will take place Wednesday night. Undefeated Logan will face No. 3 Peru at 6:30 p.m. in the title game. The Logan eighth-grade class is 14-0 in conference play this calendar year (21-1 overall), but did not have a SRC tournament to play in this spring.

Bureau Valley and Ottawa will play for third place at 5 p.m. Thursday.

Bureau Valley's Libby Endess squares up for a free throw late in the fourth quarter Tuesday night. She scored 33 points to lead the Storm to a come-from-behind 39-35 win. (Kevin Hieronymus)