Boys basketball: Palatine keeps MSL West frontrunner status in win over Hoffman

After beating Barrington last week to pull into a first-place tie in the Mid-Suburban West, Palatine knew it had to keep control of its own destiny as it hosted an energetic Hoffman Estates team Thursday night."It's one of those things we talked about was getting control of our own fate, but there's still two other teams (Barrington and Fremd who entered Thursday night's action a game behind in the standings at 3-2) that can say the same thing," Palatine coach Eric Millstone said. "So all we nee