Saturday (Girls Volleyball)
Redbird Arena (Illinois State University in Normal)
Class 1A Tournament: Keith School 25-11, 25-13 Hartsburg-Emden
**Championship Match
**Keith School: 3rd straight state title
Cissna Park 20-25, 25-23, 25-17 Woodlawn
**3rd Place
Class 2A Tournament: Deer Creek Mackinaw 10-25, 25-22, 25-23 Dakota
**Championship Match
Watseka 16-25, 25-16, 25-13 Edwards County
**3rd Place
Class 3A Tournament: Wheaton St. Francis 25-18, 25-23 Joliet Catholic
**Championship Match
Breese Mater Dei 25-15, 19-25, 25-22 Montini
**3rd Place
Clkass 4A Tournament: Benet Academy (Lisle) 25-10, 25-10 Libertyville
**Championship Match
Normal Community 25-15, 25-16 Loyola Academy
**3rd Place
Girls Swimming
Rockford Jefferson Sectional
1) Belvidere North: 251.5 pts
2) Rockford Boylan: 235 pts
3) Hononegah: 224 pts
5) Byron: 143 pts
**Byron: Michaela Spanbauer 6th Place Diving
**Qualified for the State Meet at Evanston High School
College Basketball
DEKALB, Ill. -- Redshirt senior center Jordan Threloff scored 17 points and grabbed 16 rebounds as the NIU men’s basketball team claimed an 86-56 victory over Aurora on Saturday in the regular season opener at the NIU Convocation Center. Sophomore guard Aaric Armstead also added 17 points as the Huskies won their season opener for the first time since the 2006-07 season.
NIU shot 48.3 percent (28-of-58) from the field in the contest and out-rebounded Aurora, 56-25, in the victory. The Huskies converted 28-of-35 trips to the free-throw line (80 percent) while the Spartans were just 6-of-14 (42.9 percent) from the charity stripe.
“A big key for us today was to pound the ball inside and I thought we did a great job of that,” said NIU head coach Mark Montgomery. “We shared the ball, we played hard, we played with great energy and we came away with the win.”
The Huskies recorded 17 offensive rebounds leading to 27 second chance points while only allowing five second chance points to Aurora.
