Three Peoria boys basketball teams win sectionals, advance to 2025 IHSA Elite Eight

Three kids basketball crews from the Peoria region won separate championships Friday evening in the 2025 Illinois Senior high school Organization postseason.

Peoria High, Handbook as well as Peoria Religious are actually moving on to the Elite 8 after triumphes.

Peoria High 57, Metamora 48

WASHINGTON-- Leshawn Stowers scored 21 points as well as Peoria High began the second one-half on a nine-point go to win their excellent 3A separate title given that winning the 2012 Class 3A condition champion.

The 10th-ranked Cougars (29-6) head to the Pontiac Supersectional and also face No. 4 Chicago Sibling Rice (29-6) at 7 p.m. Monday. Peoria High right now has 22 separate labels in program past history.

Peoria High elderly protection TJ Sturdivant Jr. reached back-to-back-to-back 3-pointers in a 1-minute, 28-second stretch to open the 3rd quarter. This flipped a 22-19 Peoria High shortage to a 28-22 lead as well as never ever looked back to gain its 13th video game in a row.

Stowers, a Miami Ohio sponsor, was actually melodramatic along with 14 second-half scores, while freshman Nigel Moore chimed in 12 and Sturduvant scored 10.

The loss ended the incredible career of Metamora elderly and Bradley enlist Matthew Zobrist, that scored 21 points for the seventh-ranked Redbirds (28-7).

Manual 62, Sherrard 49

SHERRARD-- Josh Humbles and Reggie Postlewaite each scored 18 scores as Guide beat the multitudes for a Class 2A sectional championship.

The No. 8-ranked Rams (21-12) deposit to the 6 p.m. Monday supersectional at the Financial institution of Springfield Facility as well as face seventh-ranked Williamsville (31-3). Guide final succeeded an Elite Eight matchup in 2019 en route to a Course 3A fourth-place end.

With the activity matched 24-24 at halftime, the Rams took a long lasting top thanks to a 15-7 eruption that consisted of four factors off the seat coming from Terrance Paige. Guidebook, which has actually right now won 8 in a row, utilized its own trademark protection to drive its own result in 50-39 midway through the 4th quarter and all yet put the video game away.

Bradley hire Dietrich Richardson completed with 10 aspects, all being available in the 1st half. Sherrard (30-4) was actually stepped through 18 factors from Rylan Carton.

Peoria Religious 57, Princeville 54

BRIMFIELD-- Peoria Christian gained its own initial sectional champion in 21 years through levying some retribution on the Princes.

The Chargers had actually dropped to Princeville, 77-69, in double overtime on Feb. 8. Now, PERSONAL COMPUTER (27-9) experiences Greenfield (24-10) at 7 p.m. Monday in the Lesson 1A Jacksonville Supersectional.

Peoria Religious has actually managed its own win streak to seven in a row, gaining its own very first separate championship because taking a Lesson A fourth-place in 2004.

Stone Tumbles 49, Princeton 43

MARENGO-- Princeton went belly up to gain its own initial separate crown because 2009 in losing at the Class 2A Marengo Sectional.

The Tigers complete the season at 21-12, having gained four regional championships straight. Stone Drops (25-8) had gone through an eight-point loss to Princeton on Jan. 4.