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It's been a long, long, long, long, long time - The Heat Index

It's been a long, long, long, long, long time

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By D.J. Wanberg

Neuqua Valley has the chance to break a rare and long drought in Naperville high school athletics on Tuesday night when it takes on Richards in the Chicago State University Super-Sectional.

Benet Academy in Lisle is a school in The Naperville Sun's coverage area and placed third in Class AA in 1979 and lost in the state quarterfinals in 1982 and 1983.

But no Naperville public high school has reached the state finals in boys basketball since 1915. Then Naperville HIgh School lost to Shelbyville 30-20 in the quarterfinals held at Millikin Gym in Decatur.

The layup hadn't been invented yet and players only took half-court shots. I'm kidding.

But how long ago was it?

Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President, was in his first term.

World War I was in its second year.

The luster was still on the Cubs' World Series championship trophy won just seven years before.

Arizona and New Mexico were in just their third year of statehood. Alaska and Hawaii still had to wait 44 more years for their chances.

The White Sox were still two years away from winning their first World Series.

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Brad Engel is the longest-tenured member of The Sun sports staff and has won several national and state awards in his coverage of preps as well as the Chicago Bears, Chicago Fire and general sports.

Paul LaTour has been honored with national awards in each of the last three years and currently serves as The Sun's sports enterprise writer in addition to his duties covering high school and college sports.

Dustin Michael Harris joined The Sun in August 2005 and has covered everything from high school sports to men's college basketball in addition to his new role as one of The Sun's sports columnists.

Patrick Mooney covered politics, prep sports and professional baseball for several print and online media outlets before joining The Sun in August 2007. He concentrates on prep sports, writing features, profiles and breaking recruiting news.

Sean Fuchs joined The Sun in January 2008 and covers prep football in addition to swimming and diving and other high school sports. During his career, he’s won national awards covering prep, college and pro sports.

Brad Nolan worked as a Sun sports staff writer for nearly five years before taking over as sports editor in April 2005. Since then, The Sun has continued to be honored as one of the top sports sections in the nation.

Chris Sosa formerly served as The Sun's assistant city editor before taking the assistant sports editor position in January 2007. He also writes a weekly sports column for The Sun.

D.J. Wanberg has served in several different capacities during his long-standing career with The Sun. Most recently, he worked as a sports staff writer and sports night editor until being named associate sports editor in 2006.