Chargers to receive Welcome Home Sunday

CARPENTERSVILLE – Five villages in the Dundee-Crown High School area will partner with D300 this Sunday afternoon to welcome home the DCHS Boys Basketball Team from the state tournament.

Police from Algonquin, Carpentersville, East Dundee, Sleepy Hollow, and West Dundee will participate in an “Official Escort” of the team bus en route to Dundee-Crown High School.  The Carpentersville Fire Department will also join this celebration.

The Official Escort will start at approximately 2 p.m. along Route 72 in Sleepy Hollow.  The route will continue east on Route 72 through downtown Dundee, turn north on Route 25, west on Route 62 into Algonquin, south on Route 31, east on Huntley/Main into Old Town Carpentersville, and veer around the north side of Carpenter Park before eventually ending in the school parking lot.  Fans are welcome to stand along the Carpentersville Bridge or in Carpenter Park.  Pom dancers and “Super Fans” from Dundee-Crown will be in Carpenter Park to cheer on the team as the bus passes.

The Dundee-Crown team is headed to the Final Four this Friday evening (March 20) in Peoria, playing games both Friday and Saturday to determine their ultimate placement in history.  Regardless of the outcome, the team and Coach Lance Huber have already broken records, baffled odds-makers, and stirred an intense pride in DCHS fans of all ages.  Never before has Dundee-Crown been to the IHSA state finals for boys basketball.  Never before has any boys basketball team from the Fox Valley Conference gone this far, for that matter.  The last time the community saw this level of excellence well preceded the merger of Dundee and Crown High Schools, with Dundee High School taking third in state in 1946 after winning the state title in 1938.

The idea for the Official Escort came from Carpentersville Village Hall, with Carpentersville officials contacting the District 300 Department of Communication Services on Wednesday as news of DCHS’s historic trip to the state finals swept across the region.  D300 Administration and DCHS school officials collaborated closely with police, fire, and municipal officials to make Carpentersville’s vision for its hometown team become a reality.