Steve Tucker's live blog from Proviso West...

5 seconds to go in overtime
Young goes up 55-53 on a drive by Chris Colvin with 6.6 seconds to play

4.4 seconds to play young up 49-48
Supo Sanni at the line
Misses the first
time out young
second is good
Young's last shot misses

overtime

55 seconds to go
Young leads 49-48 after a three from H-F's Dorian Reese and a missed FT by Young

1:25 left
49-45 a AJ Rompza drives and hits a spinner in the lane

1:33 left
Young up 47-45 with the ball and a time out after an H-f free throw

2:14 to play
Young up three, H-F has the ball
After two ties Rompza nails a triple with 2:50 remaining

5:42 to play
Young leads 39-34 but H-F's Kevin Dillard, who scored 21, has just fouled out
Hall makes one free throw to put Young ahead 40-34

Halftime
Young 28, H-F 14

The Dolphins led by as many as 19 (26-7)
AJ Rompza has nine points and halftime and Marcus Jordan six on two three-pointers, but he was hurt makeing a move near the basket with 2:25 to play in the half. He limped off and Julian Kenner came in and swished two free throws
Kevin Dillard has six points for H-F

First quarter
Whitney Young 13, Homewood-Flossmoor 5

Young point guard AJ Rompza had five points and a couple of major league passes and Marcus Jordan nailed a three-pointer

Marshall 53, New Trier42

The Commandos improve to 8-1 with a victory in the third-place game ..
Leading by four after three quarters, Marshall got eight points in the fourth quarter from Jeron Lee and a three-point play from Montrie McKnight to open an 11-point lead.
Ryan Hare scored 17, 16 in the first half and Darius Smith had 10 for Marshall.
Peter Boehm scored 12, Tim McCray 11 and Alex Rossi 10 for New Trier

After three quarters
Marshall 39, New Trier 35
The Commandos held the ball for more than three minutes at the end of the quarter to try to pull the Trevians out of its zone. New Trier didn't budge and Marshall turned the ball over in the final seconds
The scoring leaders didn't score as we go to the fourth

Halftime
marshall 37, new trier 31
Ryan Hare scored 16 and sat the last two minutes with two fouls and Darius Smith scored 8
Alex Rossi had 10 points for the Trevians

After one quarter: Marshall 22, New Trier 16
Ryan Hare scored 12 in the first quarter to give the Commandos a lead

This is the fourth game in the series

The teams played in supersectionals at McGaw Hall in Evanston in 1965 (Marshall won) and 1966 (New Trier won)
I attended both
The 1966 game had a one-hour delay when New Trier's Larry Rosenzweig shattered a backboard in pre-game warmups
And there was some violence as the game was ended. The New Trier fans were kept in Northwestern's arena for an hour or more after the game

The third meeting was in a 2004 Niles West Thanksgiving tournament game won by Marshall

Morton 72, St, Joseph 59
In the battle for fifth, unranked (until Monday) Morton finished 3-1 at the Proviso West tournament after knocking off St. Joseph Saturday, its third rated victim in four games against team in the Sun-Times Super 25. The Mustangs also knocked off Evanston and Von Steuben, both were in the top 10

Joe Belcaster scored 22 to lead the Mustangs over the team that had won the last three Proviso West titles
Oscar Macias finished with 16 points and Luke Scarlata 12 for Morton (11-2), which also got eight points from both Raul Guzman and Mises Quezada

Diamond Taylor scored 25 and Nate Rogers 10 for the Chargers.

Morton bounced back from a quick 6-0 deficit to St. Joseph to go up17-10 after one quarter and 33-23 at the half.

St. Joe started the third quarter strong and cut the deficit to three several times.
Morton leads 39-36 with 2 minutes to play in the third
In the consolation championship game
Evanston edged St. Patrick 33-32
In a game that tied the tournament's record for the lowest scoring game (in 47 years)
Ryan Frazier led Evanston with 11 points, Zachary Morton had 10 and Stephen Rudnicki 9
The Shamrocks, who had two possessions in the last seven seconds but traveled and missed a three-quarter court attempt, were led by Tim Traversa with 10 points and Bradley Bruno (DePaul coach Doug's son) and Jerome Robonson with nine points each.

T.F. North 56, Morgan Park 52
Marcus Deloney led the Meteors with 13 ponts and Kyle Cain had six points and 12 rebounds
Carl Smith's six points led Morgan Park

Proviso East 71, Proviso West 69.
The Pirates led 54-40 after three quarters before a furious West rally
The Pirates had four score in double figures -- Deangelo Vasquez had 21 points and six assists, Lorenzo Little scored 13, Jeffrey Glenn 12 and Randy McGaha 11
Antoine Smith led the Panthers with 19 points Myles Morgan had 16 and Melvin Rowe 14

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Steve Tucker's live blog from the Big Dipper...

It's Friday night live. and the gym at Rich South is packed

Down 11 after three quarters, Pierre Jones caught fire and led Rich South back into the game
Jones, who finished with 19 nailed a three-pointer cut the deficit to 54-53

But the Nelson brothers answered. Aaron Nelson made two free throws with 2:11 to play. Jawan Nelson followed with a three-point play with 1:40 to go.
Bloom won 68-62

Jamal Daniel scored 21, Jawan Nelson scored 17, Aaron Nelson 14 and Brian Conway 11 for the 11-4 Blazing Trojans.

Carlton Guyton scored 13 and Crandall Head 10 for Rich SOuth

Crandall Head got on the board with 1:08 to play in the third quarter, with a basket but Bloom was up 42-31 as the teams go to the fourth quarter.
Head, who has been a scoring machine for Rich South didn't take a shot until there was 3:43 to play in the third quarter

Head was pretty much absent in the first half. The Rich South sophomore star sat for 10:57 of the first half.

Head picked up two fouls in 90 seconds and went to the bench with 6:13 to play in the first quarter. When Head returned in the second quarter, he picked up his third with 4:44 to go in the half and returned to the bench.
As the third quarter starts, he hasn't taken a shot.

Bloom led 24-15 after eight consecutive points by the Blazing Trojans' Jamal Daniel.
But Rich South fought back and cut it 24-21 at the half.

Bloom's Jawan Nelson scored eight in the first six minutes, but picked up his second foul with a minute to go in the first quarter and played sparingly the remainder of the half.

Hales punched a ticket to the Big Dipper final with a 69-51 victory over 2006 champion Lincoln Park, the only Chicago Public League team to ever win the tournament, now in its 35th year.
Matt Humphrey scored 21, DJ Cooper 19 and Josh Crittle 14 for the Spartans, who with North Lawndale look like the class of Class 2A
Brandon Ross scored 18 and Jeremy Montgomery 31 for the Lions
Now its time for Bloom and Rich South, whose 6-4 sophomore forward Crandall head is the talk of the town, make that the talk of the state
More than one or two observers think that the brother of former Manley and Illinois star Luther Head, now with the Houston Rockets, is the best player in the state.
Illinois coach Bruce Weber was on hand Thursday night to watch the young star.

A basket by Josh Crittle with 4:04 to play ignited a 16-2 run for Hales in the first semifinal Friday at Rich South.
An intentional foul gave Matt Humphrey two free throws and then DJ Cooper hit a pair. After another Crittle basket, Lincoln Park scored with 1:47 to go on a basket by Jeremy Montgomery

But back-to-back triples by Cooper and Humphrey and a basket by Phillip Williams with eight second to go made it 55-41 Hales after three.

Neither team scored in the first four minutes of the fourth quarter.

A great first half of basketball saw Hales jump ahead 10-2 but Lincoln Park clawed its way back and took its first lead on a three-pointer by Charles Outlaw with 4:53 to play in the half.
Hales went up on a step-back triple from Matt Huphrey but twi free throws by Jeremy Montogomery with three second to play knotted the scored at 35.
Lincoln Park got 13 points from Brondon Ross and seven eacy from Montgomery and Cortney Bell
Humphrey has 11 and Josh Crittle nine for Hales

Final score
Thornton 59, Marian Catholic 53
The Wildcats rallied from a 15-point halftime deficit to win as freshman Jay Park led four players in double figures with 17 points. Marcus Franklin scored 13 and Jamal Gray and Trevell Rivers each had 10. Marian's 6-9 Dennis Kelly, who is headed to Purdue to play football, scored 21.

A dramatic third-quarter turnaround saw Thornton rally from a 33-18 halftime deficit against Marian Catholic to go up 44-38. Eight points from freshman Jay Parker, the younger brother of Josh Parker helped fuel the turnaround.
So far, Thornton sophomore Reggie Smith, who was banged up some on Thursday has not played.

Earlier, Rich Central took control in the second quarter and never looked back in a 71-63 victory over Crete-Monee in the first game of the fifth-place bracket. Derrius Walker scored 15 and Kendall Geanes 10 for the Olympians. Willie Wilkins scored 17 for coach Rocky Hill's Warriors who are playing without two of its best players, ne is sidelined for academic reasons, the other for personal issues.
Rich Central freshman James Cockett, a 6-4 wing made an impression with his Joakim Noah hairdo.

In consolation games,
Harlan 71, Noble Street 37
Hubbard 64, Fenger 58
Leo 70, Seton 61
Shepard 67, Rich East 65

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Earlier this week the Big Ten announced that its schedules will contain a bye week and rivalry games on Thanksgiving weekends
So beside not getting to watch say Michigan-Ohio State, it will also move the Northwestern-Illinois games to Thanksgiving weekend
Now the game in 2008 will be played in Evanston, but what happens in 2009?

The Illinois High School Association lost a venue several years ago when Illinois State had the chance to host a post season playoff game?

Are the high school finals headed out of Champaign?

Right now, no one knows for sure
An IHSA administrator said that said that a call was played to the U of I, but with Rose Bowl euphoria there were no answers.

Since the Prep Bowl is held annually at Solider Field on the day after Thanksgiving, how about having the Illini and NU play on that Saturday at Soldier Field?

Just a thought

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