State Farm Holiday Classic finals on WJBC

Posted on December 31, 2015

Logan Wolf and the U-High Pioneers play in the Large School Boys final at the State Farm Holiday Classic today. (Photo by Karin McCall/You Name It Sports)

By WJBC Staff

WJBC will close out 2015 with four State Farm Holiday Classic championship games from Illinois Wesleyan’s Shirk Center.

The boys title games both feature intercity schools. On 1230 AM and WJBC.com, the Central Catholic Saints will take on Quincy Notre Dame in the Small School Boys final at 4 p.m. with Larry Duling and Derek Seig on the call. That will be followed by the Large School Boys final featuring University High and Rock Island at 5:45 p.m with Eric Lapan and Seig.

WJBC.com will have webcasts of the Small School Girls final between Champaign St. Thomas More and Rockford Lutheran at 2 p.m. (Duling, Sondra Findley) and the Large School Girls title game between Chicago North Lawndale and Rock Island (Lapan, Findley). Listen live here.

After basketball, Sportstalk will come your way at 7 p.m.

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