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For 25 years, George Shimko has been teaching basketball – and for most of that time his family looked on. Now, they are following in his footsteps. Through his George Shimko Basketball School in Oak Lawn, he coached his children, but never pushed them to go into athletics, especially as coaches, it just happened naturally. "I have always coached my children like players," George said. "I have never coached them like my child and I think that is why they became successful. I...
Jake Farley, a native of Plainfield, IL, and graduate of Plainfield North High School, is one of 10 members of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater men's soccer team who were selected All-American Collegiate Athletic Conference for their performances during the 2019 season. Three of those Warhawks garnered major awards from the ACAA. Senior forward Hozai Ceballos (Janesville, Wis./Janesville Craig) was named Player of the Year, senior defender Garrett Morgando (St. Charles,...
The Chicago Bears named Trent Howland, a junior and running back at Joliet West High School, the Chicago Bears "High School All-Star" for week 9. On October 25, 2019, Howland helped West win its first SPC Conference championship in fifty years with five touchdowns in Joliet's 43-7 win at Plainfield Central. Howland will be invited to the Bears vs. Kansas City game on Sunday, Dec. 22, and will join his fellow "High School All-Star" honorees, respectively, for a pregame photo...
Friday night's IHSA Class 8A First-Round game between Minooka and Joliet West was also a de facto Southwest Prairie Conference Championship Game as the SPC East champion Tigers (4-6) invaded Minooka to take on the SPC West champion Indians. The Indians were coming off a monumental SPC West championship game victory at Oswego (9-1) and were facing a Joliet West team it defeated 49-7 in the opening week of the season. The Tigers took the opening kickoff and drove 83 yards, took...
The IHSA playoffs open this weekend and 13 Enterprise Newspapers teams advanced to the second season, including Class 8A No. 1 seed Minooka. Class 8A No. 32 Joliet West @ No. 1 Minooka Friday, Nov. 1 - 7 p.m. In Class 8A, the No. 32 seed Tigers are the lone 4-5 team in the field, getting in the postseason because of winning the Southwest Prairie Conference East Division. West, Plainfield East and Plainfield South all had 4-1 league records and the Tigers held the tiebreaker...
SOUTHWEST PRAIRIE WEST Minooka 28 Oswego 21 The Indians (9-0, 5-0) rallied past Oswego (8-1,4-1), to win the SPC West. The 2019 Indians are the first team in Minooka football history to finish a perfect 9-0 for the regular season. Yorkville 31 Plainfield North 7 The 6-3 playoff-bound Tigers were buried by the Foxes (7-2, 3-2) on Friday CSL SOUTH Maine South 44 New Trier 7 The Hawks (7-2, 5-0) won for the seventh consecutive game and routed the Trevians (4-5, 1-4). It was the Hawks' 17th CSL South championship in 18 years. CCL...
In a game that was significant for both teams with a conference title on the line, Joliet West defeated Plainfield South 22-13. The Tigers, who entered the game one game behind Plainfield South and Plainfield East, needed the win to keep their playoff hopes alive. A South win would have locked up the Southwest Prairie Conference East Division title, however, the West win gives the Tigers a shot at the title and a playoff berth, despite a best-case 4-5 overall record. The...
When the Oct. 15 volleyball game between Minooka and Plainfield Central ended, the scoreboard said the visiting Indians had won 27-25, 25-17. The real winner, however, was Addy Boggs. Addy is a student at Circle Center Grade School in Yorkville and has been diagnosed with Batten Disease CLN3 - a very rare, genetic disease that to this point has no cure. Of the many symptoms of Batten Disease, one is vision loss, which she is already starting to experience. For the past seven...
SPC WEST Minooka 27 West Aurora 13 Minooka improved to 8-0 overall and 4-0 in the Southwest Prairie West with the senior night victory over West Aurora (2-6, 0-4). Oswego (8-0, 4-0) ran past Yorkville 28-20, setting up an SPC West championship game at Oswego between the Indians and the Panthers Friday night. Plainfield North 14 Oswego East 9 The playoff-bound Tigers (5-3, 2-2) traveled to Oswego and rolled past the Wolves (4-4, 0-4). CCL/ESCC CROSSOVERS Nazareth 21 Notre Dame Without Dons’ leading rusher Julian Schurr, the C...
Although Plainfield Central and Romeoville will not make the playoffs in the 2019 season, Friday night was not an indicator of the two teams records. Four quarters was not enough for one of the teams to come away with the victory. Even though the Wildcats (1-6, 1-5) eventually prevailed 16-13, the Spartans (1-6, 1-5) did not go down without a fight. "I thought our defense was great in the first half," said coach Justin Trovato. "In the second half Central got going a little...
The Plainfield Band Boosters organization will host its 22nd annual fall craft show on October 26 and 27, 2019 at Plainfield High School – Central Campus, 24120 West Fort Beggs Drive, Plainfield. All proceeds from the craft show will support the band programs at Plainfield High School-Central Campus, and Plainfield East, North and South high schools. The show will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, October 26; and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 27, 2019. The s...
In a game that featured blown calls, changed calls and made-up calls, Plainfield South held off the officials and Plainfield East's late rally to grab a 33-20 win and control of its own destiny in the Southwest Prairie Conference East Division. "I don't complain about crews and say anything, but they were a bad crew," "Both teams got it, it was just a rough flow to a game and that can affect us and we didn't let it." After a scoreless first quarter, East scored first on a...
It was Homecoming 2019 at Minooka High School Friday night as the Indians welcomed undefeated and state-ranked Yorkville. After 48 minutes, the Foxes were no longer undefeated. Improving to 7-0 overall and 3-0 in the Southwest Prairie West, Minooka, rallied past the Foxes 19-10, before an overflow homecoming crowd. Noah Ellens one-yard touchdown run gave the Indians a 6-3 lead at the half. After Yorkville (6-1, 2-1) grabbed a 10-6 lead with seven minutes to go in the third quarter, the Indians and Connor Etzkorn answered. Etz...
In the opening tournament of the season for the Lewis University men's bowling team, the Flyers set a program mark with their highest finish ever, placing seventh in the 26-team MSC Louisville Collegiate Classic Saturday at Kingpin Lanes. The Flyers shot a 7,183 for the day after five traditional games and 12 Baker games (194.1 average). Winning the tournament was Emmanuel College with a 7,899, while Northwestern Ohio was second with a 7,524 and Marian was third with a 7,469....
In an effort to raise funds for the students and scholarships at Plainfield Central High School, the Athletic Booster Club hosted its first Car Show and Food Truck Rally to also go along with the movie "The Goonies" on the football field. Ran by the Plainfield Central Athletic Booster Club fundraising committee chair, Tristan Torres, each vehicle had to pay $10 to enter. "We wanted something for the kids to do leading up to our homecoming on Saturday," Torres said. "We wanted...
The purpose of an all-star game is to have fun. There was no doubt that the players on the court during the Voyager Media Boys Basketball All-Star Shootout, on Sunday, March 18 at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, had fun. But in the end the South squad had a little more fun. That’s because they rallied to win. Led by a game-high 25 points from MVP Ryan Saunders from Joliet Central, the South rallied in the second half to come away with a 120-116 victory in the 10th annual event with showcases some of the areas seniors...
As the only senior starter for the Benet Academy girl basketball team, Tsimba Malonga knew she was capable of scoring. But after suffering a hyperextended knee and missing a few weeks in the middle of the season, she didn’t always get that opportunity. So playing in her final high school game, the University of Denver recruit showed what she is capable of. Malonga poured in all 21 of her points in the second half to easily help her North squad double up the South team 88-44 in the Voyager Media Girls Basketball All-Star S...
Replacing a superstar in sports is never easy. Especially when it is Natalie Mitchem. Mitchem, who is now playing D-I college volleyball at Ball State University, led Bolingbrook last year to a school best 24 wins, was named the team's Most Valuable Player as a senior and finished her career with a school record 801 career kills. "Well it's never easy replacing someone like Natalie who was obviously great," said Bolingbrook coach Moly DeSerf. "It's going to be an all in team...
First-year Plainfield North football coach Anthony Imbordino is on a three-week run of facing his former teams. And if they all goes as the first one did, the Tigers will be happy. North defeated Romeoville 42-0. Imbordino was an assistant for the Spartans under former head coach Jeff Kuna. Over the next two weeks, the Tigers will travel to Plainfield Central, where Imbordino was a star defensive lineman and Oswego, where he coached just before coming to North. "I try and...
Bolingbrook and Plainfield East soccer are on two different tracks. For the Bengals, a sub .500 record so far in the early season has coach Cosimo Patano searching for answers. "We're still trying to establish our identity at this point in the season," Patano said. "Our style and what brand of soccer we want to play is still something this team is trying to figure out." Senior leaders including Brayden Saunders and Kolin Goss headline the young Bengals roster, but Patano said...
Motivational speaker Ernest Crim Last year, members of the Plainfield East High School Black Student Association (BSA) club heard Ernest Crim speak for the first time at Joliet Junior College. They were so moved by Crim's speech that they asked him to visit their school this year. PEHS will host Crim as a guest speaker at 5 p.m. on Thursday, September 26, 2019. All high school students are invited to attend this free event. Please be aware that strong language may be used. Crim, a social science teacher at Joliet Central...
lthough both Plainfield Central and Plainfield East have played Southwest Prairie Conference opponents to open the season, under the new configuration of the league, when East visited Central on Homecoming 2019, both teams were playing the openers for the new SPC West. "I had kind of assumed the kids understood the whole conference thing, but after last week when I told them we were 0-0 and starting conference, they were puzzled," East coach Brad Kunz said. "We had to have...