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SOUTHWEST PRAIRIE WEST Plainfield North 48 Yorkville 39 The Tigers traveled to Yorkville (12-17, 4-12) and defeated the Foxes for their 20th victory of the season. For Plainfield North coach Bob Krahulik, this season's 20-win campaign is the Tigers' first 20-win season since 2014-15. In 2013-14, Krahulik's first year at the helm of the Tigers, Plainfield North finished 21-8. The Tigers, in a defensive first-half, led only 18-17. The Tigers scored 18 points in the third quarter to break away from the Foxes 36-24. Three Tigers...
EAST SUBURBAN CATHOLIC Notre Dame 61 Carmel 52 The Dons fell behind 12-2 in the first quarter and trailed 21-12 in the second quarter before grinding out the ESCC victory at home. With the win, Notre Dame (26-4, 8-1) grabs a share of the ESCC championship with Marian Catholic (22-7, 8-1). Juniors Troy D' Amico and Louis Lesmond, each scored 16 points to lead the Dons. Junior Anthony Sayles chipped in with a dozen points. Benet 43 St. Viator 40 The Redwings (21-8, 7-2) led 8-7 after one quarter, only to be run over by the...
On Wednesday night in Aurora in an IHSA Class 4A Metea Valley Regional opener, Plainfield Central led their District 202 rivals Plainfield South 32-29 at the end of the third quarter. On Dec. 6 at Plainfield Central (12-21), the Wildcats defeated South 61-53. On Feb. 7 at South (16-12), the Cougars romped past the Wildcats 50-32. In the first six minutes of the fourth quarter, the Cougar defense turned the Wildcats over nine times and go on a 17-0 run to lead 46-32 with two minutes left in game. Cougar junior Aniaya Mabry (14...
For Lisle (27-7), its IHSA Class 2A St. Joseph Sectional opener with Chicago Woodlawn (13-6) would be a tune-up for the main event in Westchester on Thursday night at 7. The Illinois Central 8 champions from Lisle overwhelmed the girls from Woodlawn 47-12. After watching the Class 2A defending state champions, from Chicago Marshall (19-10) destroy their sectional semifinal opponent from South Shore 59-9, the Lions put on a similar outstanding performance. Up next for the Lions will be the two-time defending Class 2A state...
Bolingbrook (24-5, 5-1) pulled back to within one full game nof the Southwest Suburban Blue leaders from H-F (22-3, 6-0) with the 72-54 win over Lockport (12-16, 1-5) at the 'Brook. Plainfield North (19-7) traveled to Neuqua Valley (21-8) in Naperville in a nonconference game with IHSA Class 4A Lockport Sectional seeding implications for both teams. The two teams battled for 32 minutes to a 55-55 deadlock in regulation. The overtime was all Tigers. Outscoring their hosts from Neuqua Valley 17-6 in the overtime, North rolled...
BOYS 1. Notre Dame 26-4 Dons stunned at Benet 2. Joliet West 23-4 Tigers slip past Steelemen at "The Old Barn" 3. Benet Academy 20-8 Redwings take down No.1 Dons 4. Bolingbrook 22-5 Raiders struggle past LW East in 2 OT 5. Plainfield North 18-7 10 in a row for red-hot Tigers! 6. Maine South 16-13 Hawks finish home season, with Minooka win 7. Romeoville 15-13 Spartans clinch 2nd-place in SPC East 8. Plainfield Central 14-11 Wildcats Valentine's Day loss to Romeoville 9. Lockport 12-15 Porters beat arch-rival Sandburg 10. DG...
Since losing to Joliet West 66-39 on Jan. 20, red-hot Plainfield North (18-7, 10-4) has run off 10 consecutive victories. On Friday night in Plainfield, the Tigers took-apart West Aurora 70-52. The Tigers led 19-18 after one quarter. The North defense held the Blackhawks (8-18, 6-8) to just five second-half points to open up a 32-23 lead at the half. The Tigers extended the lead to 51-37 after three quarters and finished off the Blackhawks. With the win, the Tigers kept pace with Oswego East (18-9, 11-3) in the Southwest Prai...
As the season winds down for the Plainfield co-op swim team, the group has its sights set on high goals. The first of those were fulfilled last weekend when Plainfield won the Southwest Prairie Conference title at Oswego with 307 points, bettering the hosts by 24 points. Leading the way for the champions were Marc Avery and Alex Dvorak, who each won a pair of individual conference titles. Avery won the 50-yard freestyle in a time of 20.95 seconds and the 100-yard free in 46.95...
Plainfield High School – Central Campus senior Gillian Camacho, Plainfield North High School senior Emily Woods and Plainfield East High School senior James Memishi are among about 15,000 National Merit Scholarship 2019-20 finalists nationwide. The trio is competing for 7,500 National Merit Scholarship awards, worth about $31 million. The awards will be announced this spring. This is the 65th year of the prestigious program, which honors academically talented high school senio...
Since 1901, fans of the automotive industry have had the pleasure of going to the Chicago Auto Show. The biggest auto show in North America was originally staged at the third Chicago Coliseum that was at 1513 S. Wabash Avenue. To give fans and aficionados more information about the show, Chicago Auto Show Historian and Archivist Mitch Franklin spoke to the Plainfield Public Library District. "The presentation covers the entire length of the show from 1901 until 2019,"...
BOYS 1. Notre Dame 25-3 Dons' smash Shamrocks to clinch ESCC tie 2. Joliet West 22-4 Without 3 starters, Tigers rally past Hillcrest 3. Bolingbrook 21-5 Raiders ambushed by hot-shooting Vikings 4. Benet 18-7 Redwings fall at Marian Catholic; host Dons Friday 5. Plainfield N. 16-7 8 in a row for SPC West 2nd-place Tigers 6. Maine South 15-12 Win battle of Park Ridge vs. Maine East 7. Plainfield C 14-10 Beat South in OT, fall to mighty Neuqua Valley 8. DG North 12-12 Back to .500 for the young Trojans 9. Romeoville 14-13 Up...
Winning for the 22nd time in 23 games, Joliet Central (25-4, 13-2) received a battle in the first half from Romeoville (7-21, 2-13) before exploding for a 55-29 Southwest Prairie East victory. With the SPC East win, the big game is all set up for Tuesday night on Joliet's West Side between the SPC East leaders from West (26-3, 14-1) and the Steelwomen at 6:30 p.m. The host Tigers have won 21 consecutive games since losing to Central on Dec. 9, 47-44 at Joliet Central. Behind nine, first half points, from Lindsay Novak, the...
SATURDAY Notre Dame 65 Hersey 48 The top-ranked Dons (25-3), led 24-15 after one quarter, 43-32 at the half and 59-41 after three quarters at Hersey (8-16) in Arlington Heights on Saturday. Bolingbrook 68 West Aurora 56 The Raiders (21-5) bounced back from Friday's loss at H-F by rallying past West Aurora (8-17) at the Ernie Kivisto Shootout at East Aurora. The two teams were deadlocked at 15-15 after one quarter. The Brook led 29-27 at the half. The Blackhawks soared into the lead at 34-32 after three quarters. Enter the Rai...
On Thursday, the Bolingbrook Raiders (20-6,6-1) traveled to Orland Park in search of win No. 20 for the season at Sandburg (17-10, 1-6). The Lady Raiders won the game 63-51. The Southwest Suburban Blue victory pulled Bolingbrook to within one game of SWSC Blue leader, Homewood-Flossmoor (21-4, 7-0). The two SWSC Blue powers will clash for the conference title at Bolingbrook on Tuesday. Bolingbrook coach Chris Smith experimented with some lineup changes tonight to get the Lady Raiders ready for the upcoming IHSA Class 4A Girls...
BOYS 1. Notre Dame 22-3 at Maine South Tuesday; St. Pat's Friday! 2. Bolingbrook 19-4 18-2 run shocks Joliet West, H-F, Friday in Flossmoor 3. Joliet West 20-4 Short-handed Tigers' melt-down vs Brook, no prob 4. Benet 17-6 Huge ESCC road game at Marian Catholic Friday 5. Plainfield North 14-7 Ellinghaus free-throws, extends winning streak to 6 6. Maine South 14-10 Hawks look to shock the Dons Tuesday 7. Plainfield Central 13-9 Wildcats hope to finish strong in SPC East! 8. Romeoville 13-12 Spartans fall at Oswego, at Joliet...
On the road in Naperville, red-hot Plainfield North (15-7) was in search of its seventh consecutive victory. The Tigers grabbed a 15-10 lead after one quarter and watched the hosts from Naperville North (11-12) crawl back within 28-26, at the half. Both teams scored 18 third quarter points and the fourth quarter, was an all-out war. Final Score Plainfield North 64, Naperville North 60. The Tigers were led by 6-foot-3 senior Cooper Bridges, who scored 18 points. The Tigers 6-foot-8 senior Colin O'Rourke scored nine points and...
On Joliet's West Side Tuesday night, 20 was the big number at Joliet West High School. The white-hot Tiger girls basketball team were taking on Plainfield Central in search of their 20th consecutive victory. The Tigers didn't waste any time in pursuit of their 20th consecutive win. Joliet West (25-3, 14-1) streaked out to a 19-8 lead after one quarter and put this one away in the second quarter. Holding the Wildcats (12-16, 6-7) to just four second quarter points, the Tigers stormed into their halftime locker room up 34-12....
Plainfield North 70 Wheaton North 66. Two minutes remaining in the first overtime of Saturday's non-conference battle between the host Tigers and their guests from Wheaton North. Plainfield North's 6-foot-1 junior, Carlos Conley, went on a personal 5-0 run to erase a 66-65 Falcon lead and give his Tigers a 70-66 lead with two minutes remaining in overtime. Wheaton North (10-11) tied the game at 70. With seconds remaining in OT, the always reliable Tiger senior, Blake Ellinghaus, was fouled and went to the free-throw line....
On Wednesday, the Associated Press released its Illinois Boys' High School Basketball Rankings. Sitting atop the AP Illinois Class 3A Boys Rankings are the Dons of Notre Dame. On Friday night in Niles, the Dons (22-3, 6-0) rolled out to a 26-8 lead after one quarter. At the half, they extended their lead to 53-29 and rolled to their sixth consecutive ESCC victory 68-46 over Nazareth (9-15, 3-3). Benet Academy (17-5, 5-1), St. Patrick (16-5, 5-1) and Marian Catholic (17-6, 5-1) all won on Friday to remain one game behind the D...
Lewis University's seventh ranked men's volleyball team finished off a perfect weekend with a sweep of Charleston (W.V.) at Neil Carey Arena on Saturday evening. The Flyers improve to 5-3 while the Golden Eagles fall to 1-7. Lewis used a 7-2 run midway through the opening set to break open a close match as it went onto win 25-15. The Flyers hit .455 in the stanza and were led offensively by Kyle Bugée (Cupertino, Calif./Homestead) with four kills while Tyler Mitchem...
When Lincoln DePaula took over the Plainfield South girls basketball program, the team had not had much success. In DePaula's first year it was much of the same as the Cougars posted a 4-20 record, but since then, the program has been headed in the right direction. After wins over Joliet Catholic Academy and Plainfield North last week, the Cougars were 12-9 and "I remember the season four years ago, and it was a tough one," DePaula said. "But we were building something....
A Joliet police officer is facing drunk driving charges for an off-duty crash that killed a Berwyn officer. Erin Zilka, 35, a 12-year-veteran, was charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence after the crash Jan. 19 on Interstate 55 north of Route 30 in Plainfield Township. The passenger in Zilka's Dodge Durango, Charles Schauer, 33, was a 10-year-veteran of the Berwyn Police Department. Zilka has been placed on administrative leave while the Joliet Police conduct an...
Sustained excellence is hard to do in any sport. For Downers Grove North (21-5, 7-2) basketball coach Stephan Bolt, excellence has defined his career. In his eigh seasons as the head coach for Downers Grove North, he has just had one losing season in his tenure, which was his first year in 2012-13. "I give all of the credit to the kids because they buy into our system," Bolt said. "We tell them to leave it all on the floor on the defensive side of the ball." Not only are the...
In a Wheaton Warrenville South, MLK Tournament quarterfinal gameSaturday evening, the area's No.4-ranked Redwings of Benet Academy (13-4) took on No. 9-ranked Downers Grove North (10-8). In their first-round game, at 9:30 a.m, the Redwings, started slow but would cruise past Plainfield East 59-42. The Trojans had to rally past Glenbard North 49-44 in a game that was played at 11 a.m. to set up the quarterfinal match-up between the two neighboring rivals. The two schools are...
Lewis University’s women’s basketball team extended its winning streak to seven and remained unbeaten in Great Lakes Valley Conference play with an 86-77 win at Illinois Springfield on Monday evening. The Flyers are now 11-5 overall and 8-0 in the GLVC while the Prairie Stars fall to 6-10, 1-7 GLVC. Lewis came out firing shooting over 71 percent (10-for-14) while holding UIS to just 3-of-15 shooting in the opening quarter. After the Prairie Stars tied the score at nine, the Flyers finished the quarter on a 16-0 run. Lewis ext...