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These Bolingbrook student-athletes have received college scholarships:

CARTHAGE COLLEGE
Four-year Full Football Scholarship: John Seigler

EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
Four-year Athletic Full Scholarships: Roosevelt Holliday and Alex McNulty

LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
Four-year Full Athletic Scholarship: Satavia Taylor

MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY
Four-year Athletic Full Scholarship: Candace Nevels

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
Four-year Full Athletic Scholarship: Diamond Taylor

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, GREEN BAY
Four-year Full Athletic Scholarship: Troy Snyder

By Jason Ivanitz

Bolingbrook sophomore Ariel Massengale and freshman Morgan Tuck are living a dream right now as they were chosen to the inaugural USA Basketball Women's U16 National Team on Sunday.

A total of 34 girls were invited to the Olympic facility located in Colorado Springs to try to make the roster of 12 that will be used when team USA participates in the 2009 FIBA Americas Tournament. The tournament will feature eight teams (to be announced) and the top three countries will advance to the FIBA Under 17 basketball championship in 2010.

The two Raiders plan to return home Thursday from Colorado after spending a little more than a week away from home; the return date to Colorado has not been announced.

Bolingbrook is one of only two schools that has multiple players on the squad, and Tuck and Massengale are the only representatives from the state of Illinois.

Senior Troy Snyder connected on a 15-foot jumper with less than a second to play on Saturday night, giving the Bolingbrook Raiders boys basketball team a 73-71 victory over Springfield Southeast in the championship game of the Decatur Turkey Tournament.

The Raiders held for a final shot, with Snyder keeping the ball for the final 15 seconds of the possession before driving to the left of the lane and hitting the winning shot.

Diamond Taylor led the Raiders (3-0) with 20 points. Synder finished with 19 points, eight rebounds and four assists.

Despite Snyder's heroics on offense, Southeast had a chance to tie the game at the end.

Southeast's Lawrence Thomas had a chance to tie the game after he got fouled with 0.5 seconds left, but he missed the front end of a one-and-bonus and time expired. Thomas finished with 25 points.

The Bolingbrook Raiders boys basketball team advanced to the championship game of the Decatur Turkey Tournament on Friday with a 66-59 win over Decatur Eisenhower.

Troy Snyder led the Raiders with 17 points. Diamond Taylor had 16 points and Antoine Cox had 10 points.

Trailing 53-49 at the start of the final quarter, Cox -- who began the game on the bench -- had three points, three blocks, a steal and a rebound in the final eight minutes.

The Brook (2-0) will face Springfield Southeast in the championship game today at 7:30 p.m. Southeast advanced to the title game with wins over Harvey Thornton on Wednesday and Mt. Zion on Friday.

Coach Speak details all the Bolingbrook Raiders results that coaches see fit to e-mail to The Brook Blog. If they add comments, we run them verbatim.

Bolingbrook 78 Peoria Central 68 Diamond Taylor 27 pts, Troy Snyder 22pts. Russell Burns shut down their leading scorer Bobo Drummond and played tenacious defense the entire game. Play Eisenhower at 6pm on Friday night.

The Bolingbrook Raiders boys basketball team won its first game of the season on Tuesday night, beating Peoria Central 78-68 in the Decatur Turkey Tournament.

Diamond Taylor scored 29 points in his first game as a Raider. Fellow senior Troy Snyder wasn't far behind with 25 points.

The Raiders (1-0) will play Decatur Eisenhower in the tournament semifinals on Friday at 6 p.m. The championship game is on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Coach Speak details all the Bolingbrook Raiders results the coaches see fit to e-mail to The Brook Blog. If they add comments, we run them verbatim.

The Bolingbrook Raiders wrestling team opened its season with two losses and one win in a three-way dual meet at Bradley on Tuesday night.

Romeoville 45, Bolingbrook 25
Bolingbrook 40 Plainfield South 24
Bradley 36, Bolingbrook 18

The Raiders went 3-0 in the JV competition.

Bolingbrook 58, Romeoville 24
Bolingbrook 52, Plainfield South 21
Bolingbrook 34, Bradley 18

The coaching staff was very excited to see many more positives than negatives after the first night of wrestling. Many of our kids who needed to come out strong this season did very well. With having only 2 seniors and 2 juniors in the varsity lineup we wrestled pretty well. Senior 189lber Andrew Flynn went perfect on the night winning all 3 of his matches. Freshman Robby Bain wrestled 2 matches and won both at 215lbs. Another great accomplishment was that our JV team finished the night 3-0 with 3 dominating performances over the 3 teams.