When Plainfield East boys basketball coach Kanwer Sarkaria had a freshman named Alijah Little in his geography class, he noticed that Little was having trouble seeing the lesson on the board even though he was sitting in the front row.

Sarkaria asked Little if he wore glasses or contacts, and Little told him he did. Little came to school the next day with contacts in.

“I told him that he was going to see something he hadn’t seen before,” Sarkaria said. “The rim.”

Little is now a senior for the Bengals and he had his contacts in Tuesday night. He led East to a hard-fought 40-36 win over District 202 and Southwest Prairie Conference rival Plainfield North by scoring 13 points, grabbing seven rebounds and handing out four assists.

He was at his best in the fourth quarter. The Tigers l

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