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March 16 marks the nine-year anniversary of Tap House in Plainfield and the bar and grill at 24402 W Lockport St. in Plainfield is celebrating by helping the community through the COVID-19 pandemic. With schools being closed around the state, Tap House wants to make sure that every kid is taken care of by providing brown bag lunches available to any K-12 child that is in need. "We love our community. This is not about us, it's about the community and we are doing what we can...
Making its 14th trip to the IHSA state girls basketball finals is nothing new to Montini Catholic. The Lombard-based school made its 14th consecutive trip to the finals this season, placing third in Class 3A with a 55-43 win over Springfield Lamphier. What is rare for the Broncos this season is the age of the players they accomplished the feat with. Montini featured only two seniors, two juniors, eight sophomores and three freshmen. Among the trio of ninth graders are Madisyn...
The Joliet Catholic Academy girls basketball team was just two games away from advancing to the IHSA state finals two weeks ago. Despite a 40-36 loss to Seneca in the championship game of the Wilmington Sectional, the Angels were still represented at Redbird arena – twice. Junior Emma Jay won the Class 2A Three-Point Shootout state title, connecting on nine of 15 shots on Feb. 28. That came a day after she connected on 10 shots in the preliminary round to advance to the final...
After falling in the IHSA Class 4A state semifinal March 6, Bolingbrook needed a half of basketball to shake off the disappointment and rally from behind for a 63-57 win over Lake Park to claim the program's eighth trophy and first third-place finish. The Raiders had not been to state since winning its third-straight championship in 2011. "Our goal was not only to get down here, but to compete for a state championship and when that didn't happen, it took a while for that to...
For the first time since 2011, the Bolingbrook girls basketball program will bring home a state trophy, unfortunately it will not be the one the Raiders wanted. With a 68-57 loss to Lincoln-Way West in the IHSA Class 4A semifinal at Redbird Arena on the campus of Illinois State University, Bolingbrook will play Lake Park at 5:30 p.m. Saturday for third place in the state. Bolingbrook was plagued all game by missed shots – both at the rim and at the foul line. "We were 20-64 f...
For the 18th-straight year, downtown Plainfield will be covered in emerald green spectators as the village hosts its annual Irish Parade. This year’s events will step off at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 15 at Plainfield Central High School – the same place the parade will finish when it is completed. “Weather permitting, we will have bounce houses and face painters and that is free,” said event committeeman Bill Markley. “We will have bagpipers and Shriners and that is where the...
Heading into the IHSA Class 4A Metea Valley Regional final against Bolingbrook, Plainfield South already had achieved more in one season than any other team in program history. The Cougars tied a school record with 16 wins on the season, equaling the same number of wins as last season. With a 46-38 win over District 202 rival Plainfield Central in the regional semifinal round, South advanced to the program's first-ever regional championship game. That said, coach Lincoln...
On May 16, like hundreds of other Plainfield Central students, 18-year-old Taylor Babec will walk across the stage and get her diploma. However, unlike her classmates she will be celebrating more than finishing four years of high school. For Taylor, May 16 marks the 10-year anniversary of her final treatment for non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, which she was diagnosed with at five-years-old and battled for more than three years. As a part of that battle, Taylor received 22 blood...
With just shy of five minutes to play in the IHSA Class 4A Lewis University Super-Sectional, Bolingbrook found itself chasing a near double-digit deficit in a game it had trailed almost the entire way. There were not quit in the Raiders. Tremendous defense from Danyel Middleton down the stretch, three clutch free throws from Kennedi Perkins and an absolutely dominating performance from Treasure Thompson led a 71-68 win over Whitney Young and the Raiders' first trip downstate...
When Joliet Catholic Academy last won an IHSA boys basketball regional championship in 2013-14, it did so as a No. 4 seed and advanced all the way to the sectional championship game. This season, the Hilltoppers entered the Class 2A tournament with an 11-19 record and was the No. 7 seed one of two sub-sections of the Pontiac Sectional. While the seed may have reflected Joliet Catholic's record, it did not reflect how it got that record. The Hilltoppers (14-19) play in the...
It has been eight years since Bolingbrook girls basketball has advanced to the IHSA state finals and had a chance at winning the program’s fifth state championship. This year’s Raiders are one game away. Bolingbrook defeated Benet Academy, the Associated Press No. 1 team in 4A, 68-54 to win the Benet Academy Sectional and advance to the Super-Sectional Monday against Whitney Young. Young defeated Downers Grove North 53-47 to win the Proviso West Sectional. “This is a big accom...
For the Benet Academy boys basketball game, Valentine's Day was all about winning. Prior to player introductions, Redwing coach Gene Heidkamp was honored for reaching his 300th career win at the school. He then led Benet to a 45-43 East Suburban Catholic Conference win over Notre Dame, top-ranked Class 3A team in the state. "We needed a big win," Heidkamp said. "We have played a very tough schedule and come up short against some very good teams. Notre Dame is an outstanding...
For the Benet Academy boys basketball game, Valentine's Day was all about winning. Prior to player introductions, Redwing coach Gene Heidkamp was honored for reaching his 300th career win at the school. He then led Benet to a 45-43 East Suburban Catholic Conference win over Notre Dame, top-ranked Class 3A team in the state. "We needed a big win," Heidkamp said. "We have played a very tough schedule and come up short against some very good teams. Notre Dame is an outstanding...
For the Benet Academy boys basketball game, Valentine’s Day was all about winning. Prior to player introductions, Redwing coach Gene Heidkamp was honored for reaching his 300th career win at the school. He then led Benet to a 45-43 East Suburban Catholic Conference win over Notre Dame, top-ranked Class 3A team in the state. “We needed a big win,” Heidkamp said. “We have played a very tough schedule and come up short against some very good teams. Notre Dame is an outstanding team and to be able to hold on and beat them is...
Shay Boyle has spent his entire educational life in Catholic schools and beginning in July, he will have the opportunity to lead young men through their own Catholic school life. That is after Boyle was approved in January by the Board of Directors of Notre Dame College Prep as the school's next president. "There may not be another person on the planet that has been through more Catholic education than me," Boyle said. "From kindergarten through eighth grade I went to Our...
Benet coach Joe Kilbride quickly pointed out the correlation. Kilbride certainly hopes for a repeat ending. Senior forward Kendall Holmes joined an exclusive company in program history by topping the 1,000-point mark in her illustrious career. The DePaul recruit scored 26 points to lead the Redwings to a victory over St. Viator on Feb. 5. In the 57-49 East Suburban Catholic Conference win, Holmes became just the 10th player in program history to reach the four-digit mark....
Plainfield Central girls basketball coach Armond Frazier is admittedly normally not an overly sensitive guy. January 27 was one of those days where he was. That day, a California helicopter crash had killed nine people, three of them teenage girls basketball players and two coaches – most notably among the dead was former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna. The flight was on its way to Bryant's Mamba Academy, where the girls all played basketball f...
Up until a few years ago, a match-up between Bolingbrook and Joliet West basketball would have been a normal, conference game between two of the area's elite programs. While not much in that statement has changed, the conference part has. The two local schools that shared residency in both the SICA and SWSC, now call different leagues home after Joliet West relocated to the Southwest Prairie Conference a few years ago. So, in order for them to compete on the same stage, it...
Things were going well for the Lisle girls basketball game up until it met up with Aurora Christian on Jan. 25. The Lions entered the game with a 20-4 record and were on their way to an IHSA Class 2A top seed. On that Saturday, not only did Lisle drop the game 75-27, it had three players suffer injuries. That coupled with an illness, and the Lions 1-2 over their next three seeing the only two consecutive losses all season. "We have to get healthy," coach Nick Balaban said...
While the Morton Arboretum in Lisle has a focus on trees and educating the public about trees and their pivotal role in the ecosystem, there are events that happen on the 1,700-acres in between the trees that also bring the community in. Last weekend, patrons flooded the grounds on two chilly, snow covered days of demonstrations of husky sled-pulling and skijoring where the dogs pull a person on skis. Huskies were on hand to be adopted from Adopt-a-Husky, the presenters of...
Heading into her senior bastketball season, Mia Bertino was already a decorated athlete as a four-time state qualifier for the Joliet Catholic Academy tennis team. On January 19 against Providence Catholic at the Bishop McNamara MLK Day tournament, she added to her accomplishments when she became one of a handful of players in Angel lore to record 1,000 career points. “It was a surreal moment,” she said. “I didn’t know I was at 1,000 at that point, I thought I still had a w...
Maine South and Niles West high schools are separated geographically by less than six miles, but this season, their girls basketball teams are separated by light years. The Hawks are built around a core group of two seniors and three juniors who gained varsity experience together a season ago. The Wolves, on the other hand, have only two seniors on a junior-dominated roster. West is working on replacing 10 seniors from last season's team, including Enterprise Publications...
Of the hundreds of nominees for the 2020 McDonald's All-American basketball game, 44 combined boys and girl nominees reside in the state of Illinois. Two of those play for Bolingbrook High School. On the boys side, Darius Burford is one of only 13 guys from the Land of Lincoln to be nominated for the game, while Treasure Thompson is one of 31 Illinois ladies on the list. The 2020 McDonald's All-American Games selections from this nominee list will be revealed on Jan. 23 at 2...
We already have Black Friday - the large retail shopping day the day after Thanksgiving - now add Green Wednesday to the list. While it will not carry the annual gravitas of Black Friday, for one day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020 rivaled that day. That is the day Illinois began to officially legalize recreational marijuana after HB 1438 was signed into law in June. Weed connoisseurs waited in line more than four hours outside Rise dispensary, 2903 Colorado Ave. in Joliet to partake in the legal purchase of cannabis. Normal hours...
We already have Black Friday - the large retail shopping day the day after Thanksgiving - now add Green Wednesday to the list. While it will not carry the annual gravitas of Black Friday, for one day, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020 rivaled that day. That is the day Illinois began to officially legalize recreational marijuana after HB 1438 was signed into law in June. Weed connoisseurs waited in line more than four hours outside Rise dispensary, 2903 Colorado Ave. in Joliet to...