The Peoria Heights Patriots are awesome this year! Not only having a great a season of 16-10, the boys have made it through Regionals!

     The Regionals this year were held at Delevan High School. The first game we played was on Tuesday, February 23. The Heights played against Hartem. This game was close but the Patriots were able to tip the ball in with 5.5 seconds left and leave Delevan with a 63-62 victory over the Stags.

     After winning that game, it led the boys to another game on Thursday, February 25. This game was against Dee-Mack. Dee-Mack having beaten us out of last years regionals, the boys definitely wanted this win. The Heights had a good lead for most of the game, and kept it up through the end, leaving the final score 64-54, and finally sending Dee-Mack home.

     Finally after winning two regional games, the Patriots made it to the regional title game, and they were very excited. This game was against Illini Central. Both teams were having really good seasons, but only one would be able to be victorious in the end. Throughout the game, both teams would lead then fall, and finally in the last five seconds when Illini Central thought they had the game, a timeout was called to rethink their strategy. The game was back in play, but at 1.2 seconds to go the final time-out was called, and the Heights knew what they had to do to win. Starting back up the ball was thrown in to Jeff Todd who shot the ball with all hopes of it going in, and as the buzzer went off ending the game, the ball went through the hoop, leaving the final score 61-60. The Patriots won, and received their regional title! The boys also got to cut the net down to bring home with their plaque.

     Good luck at Sectionals Patriots!!