High School Sports

Young sectional seeds

By Michael O’Brien

They aren’t officially released until Friday and the IHSA can make changes until then, but here are the seeds the coaches came up with last night…

1. Lincoln Park

2. Marshall

3. Young

4. De La Salle

5. Crane

6. Hales

7. St. Ignatius

8. Phillips

9. Dunbar

10. Payton

11. King

12. Clemente

13. Manley

14. Jones

15. Noble Street

16. Westinghouse

17. Kenwood

18. Gage Park

19. Raby

20. Juarez

21. Bronzeville

22. Du Sable

23. Cristo Rey

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