Full Text of HR0825 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate the Pleasant Plains High | 4 | | School girls basketball team for winning the 2020 Class 2A | 5 | | State Championship on February 29; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Competing against a two-time defending state | 7 | | champion, the Cardinals represented the Sangamo Conference at | 8 | | Redbird Arena on the campus of Illinois State University, where | 9 | | they handed the Commandos of Chicago Marshall a loss by a score | 10 | | of 43-37; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, The Pleasant Plains Cardinals finished the season | 12 | | with a record of 28 wins and 3 losses; en route to the | 13 | | championship, Pleasant Plains won six tournament games against | 14 | | Waverly, Auburn, Breese Central, Breese-Mater Dei, Quincy | 15 | | Notre Dame, and Port Byron-Riverdale by holding each opponent | 16 | | to 40 points or less; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, A defensive powerhouse, Pleasant Plains only | 18 | | trailed for little over a minute at the start of the game when | 19 | | Marshall opened with a three point lead; the Cardinals | 20 | | responded with a six point run and never looked back; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Though the leading seniors of this state champion |
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| 1 | | Cardinals team previously won an IESA Championship four years | 2 | | ago, the Pleasant Plains girls basketball team won the first | 3 | | state championship in program history, beating the two-time | 4 | | defending state champion Commandos of Chicago Marshall; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Under the leadership of Head Coach TJ Fraase, the | 6 | | Pleasant Plains High School girls basketball roster included | 7 | | Ali Fraase, Heidi Hergenrother, Caroline Jachino, Anna | 8 | | Kanllakan, Macy Kanllakan, Emily Long, Teagan Morley, Addy | 9 | | Skeeters, Asya Smith, Macy Ward, and Sammy Willis; therefore, | 10 | | be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 12 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 13 | | we congratulate the Pleasant Plains High School girls | 14 | | basketball team for winning the 2020 IHSA Class 2A State | 15 | | Championship and wish the program future success; and be it | 16 | | further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to Head Coach TJ Fraase and Pleasant Plains High | 19 | | School Principal Luke Brooks.
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