Girls Basketball

Alyssa Galvan didn’t score many points or see much playing time during the last three years, but she would have enjoyed one more season on the University of Wisconsin-Platteville basketball team.

Rosary athletic director Mary Lou Kunold confirmed Monday night that the school will not renew veteran girls basketball coach Dave Beebe’s contract for an 18th season in 2012-13.

GENEVA – Sami Pawlak spent the first part of a recent final-hour study hall talking shop and the next part getting a head start on a day ideal for hooky.

FIRST TEAM Jackie Cardona, Aurora Central Catholic, Sr., G

Mark Fitzgerald works outside the Aurora Central Catholic school building, but the Chargers’ girls basketball coach does well to make up for lost time.

NORMAL – In a tournament with a third-place game, someone has to finish with two losses.

NORMAL – Given the different histories of Aurora Central Catholic and Quincy Notre Dame, it would have taken a monumental upset for ACC’s dream season to extend into the state championship game.

SYCAMORE – Belvidere North advanced to a Class 3A girls basketball sectional final last season.

AURORA – If there are lingering questions about the quality of competition the Aurora Central Catholic girls basketball team played to advance to the IHSA Class 2A state semifinals, there is no such ambiguity about what awaits the Chargers tonight in Normal.

MAPLE PARK – Kaneland shuttles girls basketball practices between the high school gym and the adjacent middle school, divvying court time in tandem with the boys.

We reporters who cover high school sports often have to confirm teams’ records after a game, and it’s funny how many coaches of struggling teams can’t quite remember their team’s current mark.

HOFFMAN ESTATES – Animated Geneva girls basketball coach Sarah Meadows shouts regardless of the Vikings’ position in a game.

SYCAMORE – A six-egg omelette will raise your cholesterol. A six-point first half will kill your season.

Twice during Thursday’s IHSA Class 3A Yorkville Regional final, Kaneland girls basketball junior Allyson O’Herron attempted drives off shot-fakes only to be whistled for traveling.

GENEVA – Geneva girls basketball players discovered the best place to exhale was their locker room.