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In 2008, Benet Academy basketball coach Marty Gaughan was retiring after 19 seasons at the helm of the Redwings' program. The recently retired coach was part of the hiring committee and had coached against then St. Patrick's assistant coach and former Nazareth Academy head coach Gene Heidkamp for the job. "Some of the biggest accolades he received were from our previous head coach Marty Gaughan," said longtime Benet Academy athletic director Gary Goforth. "Marty knew him and...
CCL/ESCC MARIST 34 NOTRE DAME 13 BENET 14 ST.IGNATIUS 7 CCL/ESCC CROSSOVER JOLIET CATHOLIC 49 ST LAURENCE 0 CENTRAL SUBURBAN SOUTH MAINE SOUTH 49 NILES WEST 6 ILLINOIS CENTRAL 8 WILMINGTON 35 LISLE 24 METRO SUBURBAN CHICAGO CHRISTIAN 48 WESTMONT 24 SOUTHWEST PRAIRIE MINOOKA 58 PLAINFIELD EAST 20 PLAINFIELD NORTH 35 ROMEOVILLE 0 OSWEGO 24 PLAINFIELD SOUTH 0 OSWEGO EAST 35 JOLIET WEST 14 YORKVILLE 26 PLAINFIELD CENTRAL 14 SOUTHWEST SUBURBAN LINCOLN-WAY EAST 42 BOLINGBROOK 14 HOMEWOOD-FLOSSMOOR 41 LOCKPORT14 WEST SUBURBAN...
Just when you thought the past year could not get any weirder - the Bolingbrook Raiders unveiled a pass-heavy offense in Friday night's football opener at defending Class 8A state champion Lincoln-Way East. Raider senior quarterback Vincenzo Meschi, a transfer from Batavia, put the ball in the air 53 times in the season opener, connecting on 26 of his passes in a 42-14 loss. "That was our strategy coming in," said Bolingbrook coach John Ivlow. "We knew if we came out and ran...
It may be only an abbreviated six-game season but for the state of Illinois' thousands of high school football players excitement reigns supreme. Tonight, all across Illinois, the 534 football playing schools will kick-off the 2020 season. For the Bugle/Enterprise Newspapers football playing schools joy also reigns supreme. "It is just so awesome to be playing football again," Joliet Catholic junior quarterback Aidan Voss said. Joliet Catholic returns 15 starters from their 2019 IHSA Class 5A quarterfinalist. With an Illinois...
When the men's NCAA bracket was announced, there were two players from local communities on teams heading to the NCAA tournament and both are from the Valley View School District - one each from Bolingbrook and Romeoville. On the women's side, there are three players on two different teams headed and a pair of them graduated from Bolingbrook High School. Jahari Smith, who actually played at both Romeoville and Bolingbrook in her time in high school is now a starter for...
Senior night success - well almost. It was senior night at Benet Academy in Lisle as 10 Redwing seniors were honored with their parents in an emotional pregame ceremony. After the ceremony, the entire Redwings roster demolished Marist 62-33 in the 'Wings final East Suburban Catholic Conference game of the abbreviated season. The Benet victory was the 300th as a Redwing for the venerable Gene Heidkamp, in his 13th season in Lisle. About 50 miles to the southeast in Chicago...
In a tribute to an injured senior, Bolingbrook and St. Ignatius orchestrated a scenario where the teams traded uncontested layups in the beginning of the game in order to get the injured 6-foot, 3-inch Kai Evans a basket in his final game as a Raider. To the unknowing fan, it appeared as if Evans muffed his point blank attempt, but according to fellow senior Kyonte Thomas, it was all part of the plan. "He said he was going to pad his stats a little and get two points and a reb...
After beginning the season with a perfect 19-0 record, the Drake Bulldogs finished with a record of 25-4 on the season and after falling to Loyola-Chicago in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament final on Sunday. The Bulldogs were still awarded a berth in the field of 68 teams that will advance to the NCAA tournament, giving Drake's 6-foot sophomore guard Joseph Yesufu a chance to play in the big dance. Yesufu averaged 12.1 points, 1.8 assists and 1.7 rebounds per game....
On Saturday afternoon, with the blaring sounds of Queen's 1977 rock anthem 'We are the Champions', the Joliet West Tiger girls hoisted the Southwest Prairie Conference championship trophy after defeating Plainfield North 68-53. The Tiger girls had done their part, toward the goal of a Joliet West Tigers sweep, of the Southwest Prairie Conference championships. Following the Tiger girls' postgame celebration, the surprising Cougars of Plainfield South were set to face the SPC East Division champions from Joliet West in the...
Southwest Prairie Conference East Division champions, Southwest Prairie Conference champions, 14-1 overall record — all in 2020-21. The above accomplishments of Joliet West girls varsity basketball head coach John Placher's Tigers may be only the beginning. On Saturday morning on Joliet's west side, a pair of Tigers were getting together for the 2021 Southwest Prairie Conference championship game. The visiting SPC West Division champion Tigers of Plainfield North (9-4) and the SPC East champs the Tigers of Joliet West (...
Back on February 24, 2020 in an IHSA Class 4A Girls Maine West Sectional semifinal, Evanston defeated Maine South 65-51. Evanston totally dominated the game and led by as many as 28 points. For the third consecutive season, the Wildkits ended a Hawks season. For the 2019-20 season, Maine South finished 24-6 with three of the losses coming to Evanston. On Friday night in Park Ridge, Maine South met up again with their nemesis. The Hawk girls entered the game with a one-game lead over the Wildkits in the CSL South in the first...
Maine South played 11 games in the last 15 days and have played 23 games overall in the 36 days of the season. After the most physically demanding high school basketball schedule in IHSA state history, Maine South senior Sean Gallery stood at the free throw line. Thirteen seconds remained in the Hawks' (13-10) season-ending finale with St. Viator (6-5) with the two teams deadlocked at 53-53. Gallery knocked down both charity tosses and a last second desperation shot by St. Viator went wide and the physically-drained Hawks...
On paper, Glenbard West is one of the top teams in the state in this abbreviated COVID-19-shortened season. The Hilltoppers entered the final game at Downers Grove North undefeated with a margin of victory in the upper 20s. West has six players on the roster listed at 6-foot, 5-inches or taller and four above 6-7, including 6-10 junior Braden Huff. None of that phased the Trojans. "Our team does not care about all of that stuff," said Downers Grove North senior Kyle Engstler....
On Wednesday night the Minooka Indian boys' basketball tea, boarded their bus for the 8.5 mile ride up Ridge Road to Plainfield South High School. In another edition of the traditional 'Battle of Ridge Road' rivalry, the two schools met in a Southwest Prairie Conference postseason tournament quarterfinal. Led by 6-foot-5 senior Cooper Schmid, the host Cougars held off the Indians 66-62. Schmid scored 24 points, hauled down 18 rebounds, blocked three Indian shots, dished out four assists and added three steals. Other than...
For his high-flying, rim-rattling, monster-slam dunks we at The Niles Bugle refer to Notre Dame's 6-foot-5 Paris France native Louis Lesmond,as "The Flying Frenchman." Along with seniors Troy D'Amico and Anthony Sayles, Lesmond led the 2019-20 Notre Dame Dons to the Associated Press' Illinois State rankings No.1 spot. On Monday night in Niles, Lesmond — instead of flying above the rim for two points — the Flying Frenchman was deadly from 20-30 feet away from the basket. Burying a career-high eight three-point bombs and sco...
In Joliet Catholic Academy's memorable postseason run in the 2019-20 Class 2A IHSA playoffs, then-junior guard Ante Acosta had some shining moments for his Hilltoppers. Defeating the No.2 and No.1 seeds in the IHSA Class 2A Pontiac Sectional complex, Acosta hit some important long-range three-point bombs during the Hilltoppers' great run. Unbeaten Bismark-Henning (30-0) ended the Hilltoppers dream season in the Pontiac Sectional championship game. On Friday night in an East...
After suffering a heartbreaking, last second, buzzer-beating loss to Class 3A No.1 Niles Notre Dame (11-1, 7-0) on Friday, the question was whether the Benet Academy Redwings could bounce back less than 24 hours later. In a Saturday matinee, the athletic Carmel Corsairs (4-6, 3-3) of Mundelein could have been a problem for the Redwings. No problem. Behind a suffocating defense and 19 big points from senior Tyler Van Eekeren, Benet Academy (6-2, 4-1) rolled to a 46-30 ESCC victory. Van Eekeren scored 15 of his game-high 19 poi...
In a battle of East Suburban Catholic Conference undefeated powers, the Benet Academy Redwings (6-0, 3-0) crushed the host Roadrunners of Nazareth Academy, 48-22. 26-4. Leading 15-12 with six minutes remaining in the first half, Benet Academy shut out the Roadrunners for the rest of the first half. The run was ignited by a long-range three-pointer from junior Margaret Temple (eight points, two 3's). The 'Wings closed out the half with a 10-0 run, concluded by a 25-foot- bomb from Redwing freshman Emilia Sularski (three...
One week ago in New Lenox, the Providence Celtic girls varsity basketball team defeated the Joliet Catholic Academy Angels 61-58. The two Roman Catholic schools went after each other for 32 minutes. Revenge. For someone to seek revenge against another fails to follow the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. After the heart-breaking defeat the Angels suffered to their bitter rivals, we believe the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet would absolve the Angels in their quest for revenge. Behind a career-high 32-point performance...
In a Southwest Prairie East battle on Saturday, Romeoville hung on to defeat Plainfield South 56-49 at "The Ville". The host Spartans were led by their double double machine, 6-foot-4, 245 pound senior Trayton Trice. Trice picked up the double double scoring 15 points and hauling down 10 rebounds to lead the Spartans (2-3, 2-3). Romeoville also received a fine performance from senior Charlie Burd, who scored an even dozen points for the Spartans. Burd nailed three clutch free throws in the final 30 seconds to hold off...
Back on Thursday, January 23, 2020 (47-43) and then again on February 11, 2020 (51-48), Homewood-Flossmoor defeated the Bolingbrook Lady Raiders. The two Lady Vikings victories over Bolingbrook gave H-F the 2019-20 girls Southwest Suburban Conference Blue Division basketball championship. As a sophomore, now junior, Bolingbrook's Kennedi Perkins gave everything she had in the two heartbreaking losses to H-F. On Monday night she remembered those losses and paid back the Lady Vikings. Scoring a game-high 21 points, Perkins led...
In a battle of Southwest Suburban Conference divisional leaders the SWSC Red leading Andrew Thunderbolts held off the SWSC Blue leading hosts from Bolingbrook 52-45. The Thunderbolts (4-1) were led by their 6-foot-4 junior Mike Morawkski. Morawski took home game-scoring honors with 24 points. The Raiders were led by their 6-foot-9 sophomore Donaven Younger who scored 11 points and grabbed seven rebounds. Andrew led by as much as 11 points in the game, before two Younger free-throws pulled the Raiders even at 38, with 4:41...
After Tuesday's 58-56 overtime loss to arch-rival Joliet Central (3-2, 3-1), the Tigers of Joliet West were looking to bounce back at the expense of the undefeated Plainfield South Cougars on Friday night. The Cougars (3-1, 3-1) entered the action on Friday all alone atop the Southwest Prairie Conference East. Joliet West would withstand a pair of fourth quarter Cougar runs and a 25-point explosion from Cougar senior Cooper Schmid and hold on to a 55-44 victory. In 2019-20 Joliet West won 29 games and were SPC East Champs...
In an East Suburban Catholic Conference battle in Joliet on Wednesday, the visiting Marist Redhawks (2-1,1-1) led the host Joliet Catholic Hilltoppers 33-26 at the half. In the first three minutes of the third quarter, a 9-0 Marist run, extended the Redhawk lead to 42-28. After outscoring the Hilltoppers 21-7 in the third quarter, Marist led 55-33 and would go on to a 69-55 ESCC road win. Marist was led by junior Xavier Sulaiman, who scored a game-high 24 points. Senior Alexander Knight added 22 points for the victorious Redh...
Normally, the Downers Grove School District 99 crosstown classic between North and South High is part of a girl and boy hoops doubleheader at either school. Due to the fallout from the virus, the girls' game was played on the North Side and the boys battle was played on the South Side and because of HSA virus restrictions only 24 DGN parents were in attendance for the girls game. Even with the small crowd in attendance, both schools came out with a lot of energy. Behind juniors Ryann Wendt and 6-foot Eleanor Harris, the...