6’6 2023 George Bellevue jumps over LW East new principal, Mr. Griggs, to win the Black and Blue dunk contest tonight!
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LW East defeats Sandburg 80-67 to go to 11-4 and 2-2 in conference. BJ Powell led the way with 20 pts. Huge news is that Coach Kolimas got his 400th win in his career tonight! Great job Griffins and Great job Coach K!
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What a way to win a regional title! Kaiden Ross with a buzzer beater! LW East now 26-5 on the season after beating Neaqua Valley 50-48! Kyle Olagbegi led the way with 17, George Bellevue had 15 and BJ Powell with 8!
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LW East defeats Bloom at Bloom 79-75 in double OT!! Ty Toliver led the way with 29 points, freshman BJ Powell had 18 points and George Bellevue had 17 points(including 2 FTs to ice the game). 15-1 on the year now!
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LW East defeats Teutopolis 56-38 to win the Effingham X-Mas title! Ty Toliver led all scorers with 23 points! Now 14-1 on the season! Toliver, George Bellevue and Kyle Olagbegi all made the all-tournament team!
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Well it’s state semi-finals tomorrow so once again how does the states best player prepare for the game vs Marist....by once again getting knocked out of lighting in round 1 by a member of our state champion cheerleader team!!
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Congrats to our freshman B Coach Greg Rigoni on winning his 600th hundredth game in his career between coaching the 8th grade level at Hickory Creek jr High and LWE high school! That’s a whole lot of W’s! What an amazing accomplishment!
LW East defeats East Aurora 71-42 in opening round of ihsa tournament. East now 24-5 on the year. Mac Hagemaster led the way with 14 points, George Bellevue had 12, and Matt Hudik had 9 points! Regional title Friday at East Aurora at 7 pm.
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Good luck to LW East hooper, Matt Hudik, in tonights super-sectional baseball game! He is the states best shooting right fielder by a wide margin!
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Thanks to a very memorable regular season (23-5) seniors!!! On to the playoffs to make a run! Uche, Kyle, Brayden, Kaiden, Josh, Tylon, and George you made this regular season memorable for the our school!
Lincoln-Way East defeats Lincoln-Way Central 55-54 in overtime! Julian Barr and soph Jhei-R Jones led the Griffins with 19 points each. This completes a program sweep 🧹 after a Sophomore, Frosh A, and Frosh B victory for the Griffins.
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LW East defeats Homewood 71-58 to improve to 19-2 on the season and 3-1 in conference. George Bellevue had 28 points and 17 rebounds! Kyle Olagbegi had 19 points!
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LW East defeats Plainfield South 68-67. Julian Barr hit 3 threes in the game including the game winner with 4 seconds left for the win. Alex Witkowski added 11 in the Griffin victory! East moves to 2-0 on the year.
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LW East defeats Sandburg 68-50. Griffins were led by Tylon Toliver with 23 points, and George Bellevue with 17 points and 10 rebounds, and BJ Powell with 10 points. LWE is now 16-1 and 1-0 in conference.
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Senior night! 6’7 senior Jack Mannion
Plans: college at Missouri or U of Illinois
Favorite Teacher: Mr Harness
Favorite Class: Entrepreneurship
Favorite food place: Chipotle(Mokena location)
TV Show: Breaking Bad
Movie: Wolf of Wall Street
Congrats Jack!
Relaxing in the off season and decided to rip open a box of baseball cards with the kids and look what came up… Star LW East baseball, Colorado Rockies and former hooper Ryan Ritter!
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🏀51-43 Lincoln Way East over Maine South... Sophomore BJ Powell leads the way with 21 points!! 🔥Sophomore Karson Thomas with 11 and Brendan Sanders with 11.
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LW East top career leading scorers Sam Shafer of SIU
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and Dorian Aluyi of Minot State
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both back in the high school gym working on their game.
Congrats to freshman A and B teams for defeating Sandburg tonight. The A team won 64-30 behind a huge night from George Bellevue and his first in game dunk!!! and the Bs won 54-53 on two clutch FTs from Jake Baird.
Congrats to Summit Hill Jr High and Coach Pufahl on the sectional title tonight! Good luck at the state tournament this weekend!
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Sophs open up with a nice win over Stagg 67-15. Everyone scored and Aiden Nilsson Led the way with 19 points. Freshman Karson Thomas with a nice slam to open the season!
LW East defeats Pleasant Plains 65-31 to advance to title game at Effingham. Now 13-1 on the season. George Bellevue led the way with 18 points, Kyle Olagbegi with 16 points!
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LW East varsity defeated LW Central 67-56 tonight. LWae was led by Ryan Sucha with 17 points and a huge game from Sean McLaughlin with 15 points, 8 boards and 4 blocks. East is now 14-5 on the year. LWE sophs won 67-56 and are 17-4 on the year.
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LW East defeats Champaign Centennial 53-44 to advance to final 4 at Effingham, now 12-1 on the season. Ty Toliver led the way with 14 points, Kyle Olagbegi had 12!
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LW East takes down State ranked Bolingbrook for the 2nd time this year on Senior night 75-67. LWE was led by sophomore Jhei-R Jones with 17 points, Julian Barr w/14 points, and sophomore Cameron Mallory w/ 12 points.
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How does the
#1
ranked player in the state get ready for a Friday night game....by getting eliminated in the 2nd round of a game of shooting knockout
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LW East (12-4) beats Proviso East 64-63 at Hyde Park! Big games from Brent Taylor, Karson Thomas, and Brendan Sanders! BJ Powell hit a huge 3 to take the lead late! And Jacob Alexander and Brent Taylor with huge FTs at the end.
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LW East falls to Joliet West in the sectionals 63-47. Single digit game in the 4th! East finishes 26-6 on the season. Kyle Olagbegi led the Girffins with 16 points, BJ Powell with 14 points and George Bellevue with 12 points.
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LW East defeats Mattoon 86-51 in first round in Effingham. Kyle Olagbegi led the way with 18 pts and 7 boards. George Bellevue had 16 points and Matt Hudik had 15 points. Griffins now 11-1 on the season.
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LWE drops a conference game to Lockport tonight. Tylon Toliver led the way with 20 points. Congrats to seniors Tommy Cheney and Josh Ellison on senior night!
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