Back at it

This is my first blog entry since at least February. Honestly, I really can't remember if it was February or not. It seems like forever ago that I covered girls basketball.
The reason I've been gone so long is I gave birth to twin boys at the end of February. Each boy was a little over seven pounds, so I was carrying around 15 pounds worth of baby at the end. You can imagine how happy I was when the pregnancy was blissfully over.
So now that I'm back, here's a short look at some noteworthy girls basketball bits in no particular order:
* Montini sophomore point guard Whitney Holloway made an oral commitment to Notre Dame. The 5-4 Holloway, who averaged about 13 points last season, joins center Michala Johnson (Connecticut) and Courtney Thomas (Marquette) as the Broncos' other Division I recruits.
* Hinsdale Central point guard Toni Kokenis, one of the best guards in the nation, has not chosen a college yet. But Kokenis has already had an explosive spring. A striker on Hinsdale's soccer team, Kokenis scored 26 goals in 22 games and helped the Red Devils to the Class 4A state championship.
* Preseason No. 1 Whitney Young and No. 2 Bolingbrook met in the 4A state title game as many predicted. But Bolingbrook dethroned the defending champion Dolphins and captured its second state title in three years.
* Driscoll won the 2A crown in February and about two months later found out the school was closing.
* Former Buffalo Grove coach Tom Dineen came out of retirement to take the head coaching job at Stevenson. Dineen retired in 2008 and coached the Bison to the 2000 Class AA state title.
* And just last week, Bolingbrook phenom Morgan Tuck tore the ACL in her left knee during the U16 USA Basketball trials in Colorado Springs, Col. Initially, it was thought Tuck had just sprained the knee, but an MRI revealed that the best player in the class of 2012 had indeed suffered a tear. It will be interesting to see how quickly Tuck returns.
Of course, I've probably left some things out of this list. So forgive me as I get back in the swing of things.