Bill Text: IL HR0825 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates the Pleasant Plains High school girls basketball team for winning the 2020 IHSA Class 2A Championship.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-05-22 - Resolution Adopted [HR0825 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HR0825-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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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