THREE THINGS WE KNOW

1Lost amid the penalties imposed on HomewoodFlossmoor’s girls basketball program last week was a rule approved by the IHSA Board of Directors that will penalize non-boundaried schools for enjoying too much success in the state tournament. Beginning with the 2014-15 school year, non-boundaried schools that reach the state finals twice over a four-year span in sports such as girls and boys basketball, softball and volleyball will move up a classification. Montini’s girls basketball program and St. Francis’ and Joliet Catholic’s girls volleyball teams are among the area schools most likely to move up.

2Count Lake Zurich and Benet among the underclassmen-dominated teams that could threaten next year’s preseason Super 25. Benet won the Class 4A East Aurora regional behind a roster loaded with juniors Emily Schramek, Emily Eshoo, Emma Hlavin and Morgan Thomalia, sophomore Kathleen Doyle, and freshmen Kendal Schramek and Katie Jaseckas. Lake Zurich did not have a senior on its roster. Key players for coach Chris Bennett in 2014-15 will be juniors Allison Trybula, Rachel Dawson and Elly Daleske and sophomores Frankie Nesca and Abby Pirron.

3The end finally came for Mount Assisi’s girls basketball team, but not before it reached the sectional finals for the first time in program history. Seton ousted the Eagles 45-37 last week in the Class 2A Harper sectional final despite the efforts of MaryKate Wetzel, Kathleen Murphy, Jess Moriarty and Terri Dearth. Mount Assisi is closing at the end of the school year. Ironically, Seton was an all-girls school founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1963. It was taken over by the Archdiocese of Chicago and went coed in 1987.