BLOOMFIELD, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — South Knox defeated Sullivan in sectionals, 43-32.

Kendal Hill led the Spartans in scoring with 19 points.

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Here’s a look at our local high school basketball highlights and scores from February 3rd, 2026:

Girls Basketball

Iowa

Bishop Heelan 80, Sioux City West 30

Sioux City East 47, Sergeant Bluff-Luton 36

Sioux Center 56, Boyden-Hull 19

Coon Rapids-Bayard 57, Ar-We-Va 10

George-Little Rock 61, Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn 20

Harris-Lake Park 59, South O’Brien 23

IKM-Manning 59, Missouri Valley 54

Newell-Fonda 82, G-T/R-A 35

Rock Valley 58, MOC-Floyd Valley 40

Pocahontas Area 48, East Sac County 33

Remsen St. Mary’s 32, Sibley-Ocheyedan 29

South Central Calhoun 44, Southeast Valley 6

Sioux Central 63, Storm Lake St. Mary’s 35

Trinity Christian 41, MMCRU 38

Central Lyon 47, Unity Christian 35

Emmetsburg 90, Alta-Aurelia 22

West Lyon 51, Western Christian 33

Nebraska

Elkhorn Valley 78, Lutheran High NE 19

Madison 34, Wakefield 31

West Holt 76, Hartington-Newcastle 24

South Dakota

Sioux Valley 59, Dakota Valley 51

Vermillion 74, Beresford 56

Lennox 52, Elk Point-Jefferson 35

Boys Basketball

Iowa

Sioux City West 73, Bishop Heelan 66

Le Mars 61, Sioux City North 49

OABCIG 68, Lawton-Bronson 24

Ridge View 62, Kingsley-Pierson 56

Sioux Center 51, Boyden-Hull 49

Storm Lake 73, Denison-Schleswig 26

Newell-Fonda 69, G-T/R-A 66

Sheldon 55, Okoboji 48

MOC-Floyd Valley 58, Rock Valley 54

Remsen St. Mary’s 50, Sibley-Ocheyedan 46

Southeast Valley 79, South Central Calhoun 50

Sioux Central 74, Storm Lake St. Mary’s 14

Unity Christian 76, Central Lyon 54

Westwood 59, Siouxland Christian 51

Alta-Aurelia 56, Emmetsburg 47

Pocahontas Area 57, East Sac County 38

Nebraska

Cedar Catholic 48, Pierce 45

Crofton 59, Guardian Angels Central Catholic 48

Norfolk Catholic 70, Battle Creek 32

Pender 67, Wakefield 43

Wausa 60, Winside 29

Wisner-Pilger 49, Oakland-Craig 39

Wynot 68, Walthill 57

South Dakota

Vermillion 64, Beresford 34

Lennox 74, Elk Point-Jefferson 34

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LAWRENCE (KSNT)- The Jayhawks are hungry for more.

After a 43-17 season (20-10 Big 12), the Jayhawks are determined to go even farther in 2026.

“It didn’t feel great to end the season the way we did,” junior pitcher Dominic Voegele said. “It left a sour taste that we want to get back.”

The 43 wins tied for second most in program history, but the Jayhawks went 0-2 at the NCAA Regionals.

With a large transfer class for the Hawks, the team knows they’ll have to gel together quickly.

“We’ve done it every year now for our college career,” Brady Ballinger said. “It’s gotten easier but its still a challenge.

Ballinger was named a preseason first-team All-American by D1 Baseball. He’s the second Jayhawk ever to earn the honor.

“We all bond being over JUCO players,” Dariel Osoria said. “We talk about our experiences and get ready together to go out and face good competition.”

The Jayhawks will open its season Friday in Edinburg, Texas, for a three-game series against UTRGV.

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PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WZZ) — The Peoria High Lions are still undefeated in Big 12 play.

The Lions went to archrival Manual and beat the Rams, 73-66, on Tuesday night to move to 8-0 in conference play. Peoria High played its first game without coach Daniel Ruffin, who was placed on unpaid leave Tuesday, according the Peoria Public Schools.

Ruffin, 41, was arrested Monday for allegedly sending inappropriate messages to a child, police said. Assistant coach Ryan McElmurry was named the interim coach.

Other boys basketball winners Tuesday included Normal Community, Richwoods, Bloomington, Dee-Mack, Eureka, LeRoy, Fieldcrest, Heyworth, Havana and North Fulton. Girls basketball winners included Washington, Morton, Metamora, Canton, IVC and Tri-Valley.

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BLOOMFIELD, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — West Vigo defeated Eastern Greene in sectionals, 46-27.

Lydia Jones led the Vikings in scoring with 16 points.

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VINCENNES, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Washington defeated Jasper in sectionals, 49-31.

Shay Hawk led the Hatchets in scoring with 17 points.

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Indiana State defeated Evansville, 84-63.

Markus Harding and Enel St. Bernard tied a team-high in scoring with 19 points.

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York girls basketball’s Tessa Rodwell set two school records in back-to-back games.

On Thursday, Rodwell scored 36 points to set York’s single-game scoring record.

On Friday, she earned a double-double of 29 points and 13 rebounds to become York’s all-time leading scorer.

Her record-setting games earned her the top spot on this week’s Section V Best.

Also featured on this week’s list are CJ Johnson of Penfield, Car’Mella Parker of Lyons, Ryan Carmody of Aquinas and Jonah Bialek of Fillmore.

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PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — Have a night Jaelyn Nunley.

The senior guard hit six three-pointers and scored 20 points to lead class 1A top-ranked Deer Creek-Mackinaw to a 53-23 win over visiting Lexington in Heart of Illinois Conference girls basketball on Monday. Nunley became the Dee-Mack career leader in three-pointers in the win, she now has 120 for her career.

Last week, Nunley passed Addi Swadinsky, class of 2023, as Dee-Mack’s single-season record holder for three-pointers when she hit her 58th of the year. Dalia DeJesus added 17 points for Dee-Mack (24-2), which grabbed the lead on an 18-5 run in the second quarter.

Other girls basketball winners Monday night included Manual, Normal West, Eureka, Heyworth and Elmwood. Bloomington and Lexington won boys basketball games.

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KANSAS CITY, MO. — Missouri Southern Softball’s Emily Davis has been named the MIAA Pitcher of the Week following a dominant start to her collegiate career.

In a five-game stretch at the Lone Star Classic in Mansfield, Texas that saw the No. 24 Lions go a perfect 5-0 overall, Davis made four appearances and two starts. She tallied a total of 17.1 innings of work, racking up 19 strikeouts while allowing just 2 earned runs for a 0.81 ERA across her four appearances.

After picking up the win in the Lions’ season opener over Colorado School of Mines, the freshman was one hit away from recording a perfect game against Southern Nazarene, where she picked up her second career win.

Davis and the Lions will look to keep the winning ways rolling when they return to action on Friday, February 6 at the Bentonville Tourney.

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WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — In their Morgan State college dorm in the mid-1990’s, Daronte Jones and Melvin Coleman stayed busy.

“We did a lot of battles in Madden,” Coleman told DC News Now. “I’d be in the bed asleep it would be a Saturday and [Daronte] would walk and grab the controller and put the controller by my bed and soon I’d wake up and he’d jump back in like I don’t see him and be like, ‘oh so what you calling me out?”

In January, three decades after his Madden battles as a college football player with his roommate, and many professional and college football coaching stops, Jones has been hired as the Washington Commanders new defensive coordinator.

For Jones – it’s a homecoming. He hails from Prince George’s County, where he attended Bishop McNamara high school in Forestville, Maryland.

It’s not just his college friends and teammates who remember the Madden matchups. His good friend and teammate from Bishop McNamara Mike Jones also took part in the legendary video games matchups – though he didn’t know at the time he was facing a defensive mastermind.

“He’s definitely the reason why I stopped playing Madden,” Mike said. “Cause he’s reading all your plays and this was the time when he was early in his coaching career… I’m like dude I’m playing for leisure.”

During his college career, Daronte suffered a neck injury that kept him off the field. Coleman said Daronte would spend more time in the play calling booth during games and was earning a bigger grasp of the game. He said it showed in Madden too.

“That kind of helped us being coaches and our playing careers were done,” Coleman said. “We learned how to think on the run, think quick, make adjustments quick.”

You could call Daronte’s coaching career the Daronte Jones World Tour.

It started in 2001 as a graduate assistant at Division II Lenoir-Rhyne. Coleman said Daronte conducted an interview with the school before they went on their spring break trip senior year. The following years took Jones to Nicholls State (then Division I-AA) as safeties coach, defensive coordinator jobs at high schools in Louisiana and his first return to the DMV where he served as Bowie State’s assistant head coach and defensive coordinator from 2005 to 2009.

Jones bounced around more after that. He was cornerbacks coach at UCLA in 2010, defensive backs coach for the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League in 2011, Hawaii’s secondary coach in 2012-14 and Wisconsin’s defensive backs coach in 2015.

Then, Jones made the jump to the NFL — first as the Miami Dolphins assistant defensive backs coach, then the Cincinnati Bengals cornerbacks coach, then the Minnesota Vikings defensive backs coach. After a brief stint as LSU’s defensive coordinator in 2021 where he coached star cornerback Derek Stingley Jr., Jones returned to the Vikings, where he stayed until this offseason.

“For most people who think that this is a person who’s coming out of nowhere, that’s not true,” Mike Jones said. “This guy has been grinding close to over 20 years. He’s been grinding and getting information from the best minds in football.”

For Mike and Coleman, watching Daronte flourish in the football world has been meaningful, but they’ve also seen his growth as a coach.

“Secondary wise, pass defense wise, everywhere he’s gone they’ve gotten better,” Coleman, who is now the safeties coach at Morgan State said. “Somebody is doing well, somebody is probably making the pro bowl. Somebody is probably making all-conference. So the proof is in the work.”

Since 2023, Daronte had worked directly under Brian Flores in Minnesota. Coleman said that Daronte’s coaching influences and style comes from several different legendary coaching trees.

“With him being around [Vic] Fangio, Marvin Lewis, [Mike] Zimmer, Vance Joseph and now Flores,” Coleman said. “He’s got a lot work from them. He got a lot of tape to take from them.”

In recent seasons, with Daronte serving as the team’s defensive backs coach and pass game coordinator, the Vikings’ defense has played aggressively, focusing on trying to force turnovers and blitzing at some of the highest rates in the NFL.

Daronte’s high school teammate Mike Jones, who is now a counselor at Bishop McNamara says the way he played was pretty similar to how his defenses play.

“He was always in the right spot… When we look at those old films when we get together, he pops on film,” Mike said. “He’s always going all out.”

Mike said Daronte earned the nickname “Crow” because “he made crow sounds in the backfield.”

“He would make these crow sounds like he’s lurking in the secondary,” Mike said. “He would take on the biggest person on the team in practice even though he was gonna get knocked down… He’s not scared.”

According to his friends, Daronte’s days at McNamara mean a lot to him. Several years ago, Daronte donated to the Bishop McNamara football program. His contributions provide student athletes with scholarship assistance. Daronte’s name is now etched on a plaque in the McNamara locker room, noted him as a 1996 graduate and that year’s male athlete of the year. Daronte played football, wrestling and track & field at McNamara.

“He’s been able to come back and give back to the community itself in terms of the program and the school,” Bishop McNamara football head coach Greg Calhoun said. “But he’s also been able to take advantage of the opportunities to give back.”

Calhoun told DC News Now that he referenced Daronte as inspiration and motivation for his players and as an example to potential recruits.

“I actually just had a set of recruits come through and we just showed his locker again as we always do,” Calhoun said. “A lot of great coaches out here in the world but for him to be selected for that job and that opportunity in this community, is huge.”

Bishop McNamara plays in one of, if not the best high school football conferences in the country, the WCAC. The Mustangs last won a WCAC championship in 1990. Since, the conference has been dominated by blue blood programs DeMatha, Gonzaga, St. John’s and Good Counsel.

But in 2025, months before Daronte being hired by the Commanders, a few seasons into his tenure in Forestville, Calhoun helped his team take a massive step forward. The Mustangs beat their rival Gonzaga, 21-0 on October 11. Gonzaga was the eventual WCAC runners-up.

The following week, McNamara fell just short to eventual undefeated WCAC champion DeMatha, 12-7. They were one of two teams to come within five points or less of the Stags all season long. It was also DeMatha’s second lowest scoring output of the season.

“We’re not always the first names mentioned in that league,” Mike said. “Now we have something that we can definitely hang our hat on in conversations… Now we have the defensive coordinator of our local team.”

Calhoun believes that an esteemed alum calling plays down the road, could further fuel his players.

“Just knowing that you have somebody of that magnitude at that level kind of puts that pressure on you obviously as the current student in that process, just letting you know you have some big shoes to fill,” Calhoun told DC News Now. “You have some expectations, you have some standards and that’s something that we work to build here in this process and our guys take pride and value in that.”

And while Daronte rises in the football coaching ranks, he’s still a boy from Prince George’s County, Maryland.

“I know growing up, everybody was like DC, DC, DC, but now it’s like PG County,” Coleman said. “We’ve got players, we’ve got ballers, we’ve got good thinkers and I think it’s just you’re proud to represent where you’re from.”

As for what Commanders fans should expects going forward, Coleman said Daronte is “a guy that’s going to be on a mission to be great. To not lose.”

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Illinois has now defeated top-five opponents in back-to-back weekends, the latest win coming in Lincoln, Nebraska, over the No. 5 Nebraska Cornhuskers.

WCIA 3’s Courtney Layne Brewer shares the highlights from the 78-69 win with Sports Director Glenn Kinley reporting from Pinnacle Bank Arena, plus extended analysis of another high-scoring game by Keaton Wagler and some of the best plays of the game.

Up next, No. 9 Illinois hosts Northwestern on Wednesday, February 4 at 8 p.m.

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EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — Indiana State defeated Evansville, 78-75 on Sunday.

Clemisha Prackett led the Sycamores with 20 points. Amerie Flowers and Tierney Kelsey each added 14 points.

Indiana State improves to 8-13 (4-7 MVC). They will be back in action on February 5th, at home against Murray State.

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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — WTWO’s Rick Semmler highlights his top plays on this week’s edition of Rick’s Rallies.

This week’s featured athletes:

Blake Hammond – Terre Haute North

Noah Wilson – Lawrenceville

Enel St. Bernard – Indiana State

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SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WJHL) — The ETSU Buccaneers gave credit to the big men on the court Sunday night in their 86–72 road win over the Wofford Terriers. The victory pushed ETSU back into sole possession of first place in the Southern Conference.

Bucs Forward Cam Morris III led the team with 22 points, seven rebounds and a career-best five steals, while 6-foot-8 sophomore Jordan McCullum added 17 points. Blake Barkley finished with 11 points and six boards as ETSU improved to 16–7 overall and 8–2 in league play.

After a back-and-forth first half, ETSU took control for good early in the second, using efficient offense and steady defense to create separation. The Bucs closed the game at the free-throw line, converting 21 of 22 attempts in the final eight minutes.

Jaylen Smith scored 10 points for his third straight double-figure performance, and Allen Strothers contributed five assists. ETSU shot 48% from the field, won the rebounding battle 35–24 and capitalized on Wofford turnovers.

ETSU returns home Wednesday to face Furman at Freedom Hall.

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SEATTLE, Wash. (WCIA) — Illinois women’s basketball took on its seventh ranked opponent of the year in the Washington Huskies and kicked off the west coast swing with a win.

The Illini played No. 25 Washington on the road in Seattle, leading by as many as 14 points and coming out with a 75-66 victory.

Cearah Parchment and Berry Wallace once again top the box score, with 23 and 22 points, respectively. Parchment also picked up her seventh double-double of the year with ten rebounds.

Illinois stays out west to face Oregon on Wednesday at 8 p.m.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – On Teddy Bear Toss Night, the Gamblers fell 3-2 to the Fighting Saints of Dubuque.

Check out the highlights of the game in the video above, and a look at the Teddy Bears on the ice below.

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ATHENS, Texas (KETK) — The defending national champion Trinity Valley Community College Cardinals were back on Saturday afternoon, looking to get revenge against the Lamar State College Seahawks.

The Seahawks beat TVCC in Port Arthur two weeks prior, but the Cards had different plans in Athens, beating Lamar State College 87-61.

Trinity Valley will now get ready to head to Kilgore College this coming Wednesday to face off against the rival Rangers.

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ATHENS, Texas (KETK) — The Trinity Valley Lady Cardinals have been rolling so far this season, and were looking to remain undefeated in Region 14 play as they hosted the rival Angelina College Lady Roadrunners.

The Lady Cards scored early and often, taking care of A.C. 87-41, and moving to 5-0 in the conference.

TVCC will head to Brenham on Wednesday to take on Blinn College, before returning to Athens the following Saturday to host Paris Junior College.

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