With last week's loss to Fremd still fresh on Barrington's mind, the Broncos boys basketball team was determined not to let another conference win slip through their grasp. Shooting 81 percent for the entire second half, the Broncos thwarted a previously surging Saxons squad, 52-37, at home on Friday night to improve to 14-4 on the season. "We knew they (Schaumburg) were a dangerous and talented team," said Broncos head coach Bryan Tucker. "In their last two conference games

Just days removed from a stellar defensive performance on the road against Cary-Grove, in which Schaumburg prevailed 41-34, the Saxons got a dose of their own medicine Friday night when visiting Barrington handed them their fifth loss of the season, 53-30, to begin MSL West conference play. The Broncos held the Saxons to 37 percent shooting from the field, and Schaumburg (2-5) shot just 44 percent from the charity stripe (7-for-16), as Barrington improved to 4-1 overall on th

To the superstitious, a full moon is believed to elicit patterns of unpredictable human behavior. If you believe in that sort of stuff, then consider Minooka head coach Terry McCombs as unpredictable as they come. With a full moon overhead, the No.15 seeded Indians were deadlocked at 34-34 in overtime with the 2nd-seeded Barrington Broncos in the second round of the 8A playoffs. That's when the 70-year old coach called a play the team had not used all year. A play that worked

If you've ever seen the chicken chase in "Rocky II" then you'll have a general idea of how daunting a task it is to tackle Barrington's Ray Niro. In the scene, Rocky Balboa attempts to coral a live chicken as part of his training regimen to improve his quickness, and just when he thinks he's got the fowl cornered, it eludes him yet again. Life imitated art on Saturday afternoon for the Hoffman Estates Hawks defense when it visited Barrington and attempted to bring down the Br

In Grind We Trust. It's been the Barrington Broncos mantra this year and it was on full display Thursday night in Palatine when the team dug deep and got past the host Pirates, 26-24, in a colossal MSL West showdown. Using a combination of ball control and stout defense in the second half, the Broncos turned a 14-14 tie at intermission into a 26-14 advantage with just seconds to go in the game in order to move to 6-0 overall on the year. Palatine dropped to 3-3. "These guys p