Lexington’s bid for a sectional title in girls basketball was dashed by second ranked Danville Schlarman which rolled to a 60-29 win in the Class 1A Sectional Championship at Colfax. One Heart of Illinois team won its sectional title, Eureka edged Midwest Central, 64-62, in the Class 2A Farmington Sectional final.
In boys basketball last night, El Paso-Gridley rolled to an 83-53 win over Blue Ridge.
Prairie Central has four first-round winners at the individual state wrestling tournament at State Farm Center on Thursday. Prairie Central’s winners were Drew Hoselton, Brandon Hoselton, Cade Kerns and Alex Steidinger. Monte Gregory of El Paso-Gridley pinned his first opponent.
Illinois State women’s basketball hosts Indiana State on Friday in the first contest of the final two-game home weekend of the season.
The Chicago Blackhawks gave up the deciding goal in the third period in a 3-2 loss to the Anaheim Ducks. It’s the Hawks eighth straight loss, pushing them 12 points back in the playoff race.
The Chicago Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo has been granted leave from the team to return to his hometown to provide comfort to the families of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. Rizzo was a 2007 graduate of Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed and more than a dozen were wounded this week.
It was a rough day in Pyeongchang for American’s Mikaela Shiffrin and Nathan Chen. Defending Olympic champion skier Mikaela Shiffrin finished fourth in the slalom, an event she has dominated for years, but she did not perform her best a day after winning gold in the giant slalom. In figure skating, Nathan Chen missed on all his jumps, plummeting to 17th place.
