Although two are starters, only three players with varsity experience will be back for the Hinckley-Big Rock boys basketball team when the 2022-2023 season starts. Coach Seth Sanderson said one of those players, Ben Hintzsche, can end up being the best player in the Little 10.

With five starters gone from last year’s 11-21 squad, the summer for the Indian Creek boys basketball team has been a long learning experience.

Griffin McNeal was named the head coach of the Genoa-Kingston program from which he graduated in 2015 at the start of June. Back in the shortened season in the winter of 2021, he was head coach of the Hiawatha boys’ program, and that taught him a lot about being a head coach.

New Sycamore boys basketball coach Ethan Franklin said the Spartans have definitely been growing pains learning the new offense he’s installing so far during summer ball. But, he said, it’s better to go through the growing pains in June as opposed to November.

The Barbs return just two starters from last year- incoming senior Darrell Island and sophomore sharpshooter Sean Reynolds. This means their summer is being spent seeing what pieces the team has beyond Island and Reynolds

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DeKalb and Sycamore were among the area teams that played in a summer basketball tournament Tuesday at DeKalb High School.

Zach Russell thought the symptoms he was experiencing were those of a panic attack. So the 2020 DeKalb graduate and sophomore at Illinois State went to the doctor and found out they weren’t panic attacks. They were seizures caused by a brain tumor.

Sycamore High School on Wednesday announced Ethan Franklin will take over the boys basketball program while Kevin Bickley will coach boys soccer in addition to his current girls soccer duties.

The Interstate Eight Conference, behind La Salle-Peru's Johnny Riva's 30 points on 10 3s and Ottawa's Braiden Miller's double-double, defeated the Little Ten Conference, 129-103, at 38th Leland Lions Club Shootout on Saturday night at Indian Creek High School in Shabbona.