Christ the King 55, Leo 38 The Gladiators turned on the Lions Saturday with stunning ferocity. Christ the King Jesuit College Prep’s basketball team goes by Gladiators, and they hosted Leo’s Lions in a nonconference game on the West Side. Before halftime, Leo’s 17-point trimming of St. Rita a night earlier was a distant memory. […]
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Leo V. St. Rita – Basketball commentary by Dan McGrath.
The last time the Leo Lions took the floor at St. Rita, in February 2022, they staged one of the epic performances in school history, rallying from a 17point second-half deficit to clip the Mustangs 59-57 on Austin Ford’s acrobatic put-back basket at the final buzzer. The dramatic road win over a fellow unbeaten was […]
Continue reading...Leo V. St. Francis – Basketball commentary by Dan McGrath
Down the road, maybe, the young Leo Lions will learn to win games like this. Utilizing superior quickness and a lot of want-to, the Lions battled bigger, stronger, older St. Francis of Wheaton to a standoff that required overtime to resolve at Leo on Tuesday night. Neither team led by more than five points during […]
Continue reading...Leo V. Mount Carmel – Basketball commentary by Dan McGrath.
Offense, defense, rebounding … everything about the Leo Lions’ performance against Hyde Park in the Team Rose Shootout at Mount Carmel on Sunday was superior to their play against longtime rival Brother Rice at home two nights previous. The effort in particular. But a young, rebuilding team has little to no margin for error against […]
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Continue reading...Leo V. Brother Rice – Basketball Commentary by Bill Figel
One had to stare really hard at the uniforms to make sure it was Leo playing Brother Rice at Leo on Friday, Dec. 8. The crowd was uncommonly small and decidedly subdued, a half-full Lions Den totally devoid of the passion these two longtime rivals usually inspire. And the game was a non-competitive yawner. Leo […]
Continue reading...Leo V. St. Laurence – Basketball Commentary by Bill Figel
Leo’s young basketball squad visited Catholic League rival St. Laurence in a non-conference tilt Tuesday night in Burbank with both teams eager to get back toward .500 on the season before tough conference play begins in earnest Friday. St. Laurence of the Catholic League White beat Leo 65-41 on the strength of traditional three-point plays […]
Continue reading...Leo V. De La Salle – Basketball Commentary By Bill Figel
by Bill Figel The value of a learning curve is defined later by what is actually learned. Leo began its Catholic League play Friday night against conference favorite De La Salle (5-0, 1-0) falling 71-40 and to a 1-2 record, 0-1 in the Catholic League. A well-coached Meteor squad with a collective defensive wingspan that […]
Continue reading...Leo v Bogan High – Basketball Commentary by Dan McGrath
From: Dan McGrath There were some “winning ugly” aspects to the Leo Lions’ 55-46 trimming of Bogan in a Nov. 28 nonconference road game, but a win is a win for a young squad working to establish itself. So the Lions were happy to leave Bogan with a nice bounce-back victory that squared their record […]
Continue reading...Leo v Farragut High – Basketball Commentary by Dan McGrath
Dan McGrath’s commentary via Jack Hannigan As for the concept of starting the high school basketball season before Thanksgiving … bad idea. Young, inexperienced and new to each other as the Leo Lions are, they clearly could have used another week of preparation before facing Farragut in the Rich Township Shootout in Richton Park on […]
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