Thursday Morning Sports Schedules and Scores

By Kevin Bessler

Boys High School Basketball-

Class 3A Regional…Normal U-High 71 Pontiac 58

Class 2A Sectional…Chicago Corliss 59 El Paso-Gridley 53

NCAA Basketball-

#14 Purdue 73 Illinois 56

The Fighting Illini scored only 23 points in the 2nd half and fall to 10 & 18.  They will next play Northwestern Sunday.

Penn State 78 #17 Maryland 61

Illinois State 65 Missouri State 57

NBA-

Chicago Bulls 109 Memphis Grizzlies 107

NHL-

Chicago 4 Anaheim 3

MLB-

Chicago Cubs 9 Texas 5

Atlanta 4 St. Louis 0

Cincinnati 11 White Sox 4