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NONCONFERENCE PROVIDENCE 3 MINOOKA 0 After the huge SPC West win over Plainfied North on Thursday, the Southwest Prairie West-leading Indians (8-6) can be excused for a little let-down on Friday, although coach Jeff Petrovic will not agree. The Indians were only able to muster five hits off Providence (10-6) junior Tyler Young. Junior Mitch Thomas had a single and a triple, while sophomore Caleb Parker, junior Casey Swanson and senior Joey Gould all had singles for the Indians. Indians starting RHP Josh Davis (0-1) allowed ju...
SOUTHWEST PRAIRIE EAST PLAINFIELD CENTRAL 10 PLAINFIELD SOUTH 0 (SIX INNINGS) On Thursday in downtown Plainfield, Plainfield Central (7-6, 2-4) head coach John Rosner turned to junior RHP Carter Prochaska to pick up a must-win in the Wildcats SPC East series finale. Awaiting to face the Wildcats ace were the No.1-ranked Cougars of Plainfield South. The Wildcats offense gave their junior ace all the support he would need with a six-run first inning. Senior Josh Cunniff got the 'Cats on the board with an RBI single. Senior...
CENTRAL SUBURBAN SOUTH MAINE SOUTH 10 NILES WEST 7 The Hawks (8-8, 3-3) scored five times in the top of the seventh to erase a 7-5 Niles West lead and sweep away the Wolves (10-5, 2-4) in Skokie. With one out, senior Alex Heinz' RBI single pulled the Hawks within 7-6. Senior Cooper Kotowski gave the Hawks an 8-7 lead when he ripped a two-run double, driving in his third and fourth runs of the game. Senior Timmy O'Brien gave the Hawks some insurance when he drove home two more Hawk runs for a 10-7 lead. In the bottom of the se...
SOUTHWEST PRAIRIE WEST PLAINFIELD NORTH 4 MINOOKA 3 This one was deadlocked at 3-3 as the game moved to the bottom of the sixth. Tigers senior Matt Barribal walked with one out. Senior Dom Curcio got an infield single before Tigers junior Brandon Bak singled home fellow junior courtesy runner Joe Vietti with the eventual game-winning run putting the Tigers up 4-3. The valiant SPC West-leading Indians (7-5, 4-1) rallied after two out. Junior Ryan Norman induced a walk from Tiger junior reliever Ryan "Snaps" Silva. Junior...
Former Bolingbrook High School and Ohio State University linebacker Tuf Borland will continue his football career with the Minnesota Vikings after signing as an undrafted free agent. He joins the team coached by another local product in Lockport Township High School graduate Mike Zimmer - one of the few defensive minded head coaches in the NFL. "I just learned about that connection earlier in the process before the draft," Borland said of Zimmer's ties to the area. "It is...
METRO SUBURBAN CROSSOVER RIDGEWOOD 17 WESTMONT 12 The Sentinels (2-12, 0-6) were led by Jason Czaplewski, who had a perfect day at the plate with two singles, two bases on balls and three RBI. NONCONFERENCE SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN CROSSOVERS STAGG 1 LOCKPORT 0 (8 INNINGS) The murders row bats of Lockport (6-3) were silenced by the 3-7 Chargers' George Evangelopoulos in Palos Hills. Matt Merk and Michael Hughes had the two Porter hits. Junior RHP CJ Byrdak (1-2) was the tough-luck loser on the mound for the Porters. Byrdak allowed...
SOUTHWEST PRAIRIE WEST MINOOKA 10 OSWEGO EAST 9 The Red-hot Indians (6-3, 3-0) had only five hits in their SPC West series finale with Oswego East. The Indians put the five hits to good use, scoring 10 runs and sweeping away the Wolves (1-4, 0-3) to move into sole possession of first-place in the SPC West. Indian senior Nick Gehrke had a single and drove home a pair of Indian runs. Junior Ivan Dahlberg doubled and had an RBI, while junior Caleb Parker and senior Joey Gould both singled and drove home Indian runs. For the...
CENTRAL SUBURBAN NORTH MAINE EAST 2 MAINE WEST 1 The Blue Demons (3-5, 2-1) swept away their rivals from Des Plaines behind senior RHP Mason Ishii. Trailing 1-0 in the top of the third inning, Blue Demon freshman Jalen Moraga walked and was driven home by a booming triple to right off the bat of Ishii to tie the game at 1-1. Senior Chris Illiopoulos followed with a clutch two-out RBI single to left scoring Ishii for a 2-1 Blue Demon lead. Ishii (1-2) allowed one run on three hits and three strikeouts in his outstanding 5 1/3...
The Village of Niles can confirm that there are several internal investigations underway within the Niles Police Department, including one formal investigation that was opened in late March at the direction of the Chief of Police after he learned that a "whistleblower" expressed concern about how a February 2021 well-being call was handled. There are also several personnel-related issues that are being investigated for various reasons, including some that date back to before...
Softball Joliet West Tigers 4 Plainfield Central Wildcats 0 This was a scoreless game through four innings before Joliet West tallied two runs in the fifth and sixth. Makena O’Donnell was the starting pitcher for Plainfield Central and went 5 1/3 innings, scattering eight hits. She was charged with one run, struck out three and walked none. Kaia Garnica was 1-for-3 for the Wildcats. Boys Volleyball Lockport (4-1, 3-0) defeated Sandburg 25-21, 25-15 in a SWSC match at Lockport. The Porters were led by Carter Steffgen (6 k...
In the Southwest Prairie Conference West Division, the two schools predicted by many, to take home the 2021 conference championship are Plainfield North Tigers or the Panthers of Oswego. On Monday, in the first game of their crucial SPC West three-game series in Plainfield, the Tigers won 9-6. In game two of the series, at Oswego's historic Jackie's Field of Dreams Stadium on Tuesday, the Tigers prevailed again by a 9-6 score. This game came down to one complete inning of the contest. The Oswego (5-2,0-2), bottom of the third...
NONCONFERENCE MAINE SOUTH 5 LINCOLN-WAY EAST 4 What might have been the greatest upset in IHSA Baseball history occurred on May 21, 2019 in the Class 4A Lincoln-Way East Regional semifinal. On that day, the No.16 seed Romeoville Spartans defeated the No.1 seed and hosts Lincoln-Way East Griffins, 2-1. On Monday in Park Ridge, the now previously-undefeated Lincoln-Way East Griffins (7-1) fell again to another Enterprise/Bugle Newspaper school — this time, to the Hawks of Maine South, 5-4. Trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the f...
In 2018 when JCA won the IHSA Class 5A state football title, it was apparent to those watching the games just how battle-tested the Hilltoppers were. Joliet Catholic lost four games that season and needed to win its final game just to qualify for the playoffs. What fans didn't see, however, was maybe the Hilltoppers' toughest opponent - their own underclassmen. "There wee a couple sophomores that started on varsity on the championship team, but we don't win that championship...
For many years the Plainfield North Tigers and the Oswego Panthers had many memorable battles on the diamond, battling for the old 10-team Southwest Prairie Conference title. With the addition of West Aurora and Yorkville at the beginning of the 2019-20 school year, the SPC split into two divisions - the East and the West. The old SPC rivals the Tigers and the Panthers stayed together as members of the Western Division, however the 2020 IHSA baseball season was wiped out because of the pandemic. On Monday, the two rivals met...
Steven Homan, 47, Owner of the 'The Barn' nightclub in Quincy Il was charged April 14 with one count of Aggravated Battery, a Class 3 Felony, and turned himself in to police a day later and is out on bail. Homan posted 10 percent of his $25,000, or 2,500, and is free until his court date on May 5. Homan was charged after he allegedly attacked Quincy basketball player Jazzpher Evans, a former star at Joliet West High School on Easter Sunday morning in what the family attorney...