High School Baseball
Yorkville rebounded from its sweep at the hands of Kaneland two weeks ago with a Northern Illinois Big 12 East sweep of DeKalb this week, but it was hardly conventional.
Nelson Munoz may not be the most talkative kid. Generally, his performance on the mound does the talking for him.
The high school baseball state playoff pairings come out next week. In advance of them, Tyler Damasky and Prospect made a huge statement on Thursday in Arlington Heights.
Lake Forest baseball coach Ray Del Fava often looks for a time to inject some fun into a game, especially when it pertains to George Karkazis.
St. Charles North’s baseball team should come with a label like those in side-view mirrors, except in the North Stars’ case it should read “Stars are closer than they appear.”
After watching his team drop its first two games against Waubonsie Valley, Neuqua Valley coach Robin Renner had a simple message.
Waubonsie Valley junior pitcher Jason Neville knew he didn’t have his best stuff on Wednesday, but his resiliency knew no bounds.
Ben Kimpler and Brendan Murphy hooked up in a pitchers’ duel Wednesday, and it was Kimpler who earned the win as Libertyville’s baseball team downed its rival Mundelein 4-1 in eight innings.
Batavia had no problem getting anything done Wednesday against the Vikings, scoring four runs in each of the first two innings en route to a 13-0 win in five innings to even the Upstate Eight Conference River Division series at one game apiece.
Hampshire ace Trey Schramm took a pitch in the right elbow from Prairie Ridge’s Ben Cilano Wednesday and when the bruise swelled up he had to leave. Without Schramm, who has signed with Xavier, the Whip-Purs failed to match up and fell 10-1 to the runaway leaders of the Fox Valley Fox.
Steven Skolarz is the first to admit he didn’t perform up to his potential last season.
After dropping five straight games against a murderer’s row of competition, St. Laurence’s season was in danger of spiraling further out of control against St. Rita.
While Cary-Grove senior Larkin Hanselmann has confidence in his team’s offense, he also was aware of McHenry sophomore Bobby Miller’s pitching reputation.
Joliet Catholic cranked out 13 hits and registered a 10-3 victory over Marist.
St. Rita, Providence and Mount Carmel make up the top three.
St. Rita won three games last week, but suffered its first loss of the season with a 6-4 defeat at the hands of Providence. St. Rita also beat Providence 7-5 and topped Loyola 7-2 and 8-3.
Providence stole six bases, played perfect defense and got another efficient performance from pitcher Brent Villasenor on Saturday. That combination produced a 6-4 Catholic League Blue win over national No. 1 St. Rita.
With both sides running low on pitching at the end of a long week, no one knew what to expect from Friday’s key DuPage Valley Conference baseball opener between Glenbard North and Wheaton Warrenville South.
Jacobs took down one of the top teams in the state in a, 5-3, win against Mount Carmel on Thursday.
Esteban Martinez couldn’t hit the ball any harder than he did during his first three at-bats on Wednesday against Providence.
Mount Carmel sophomore Cameron Hupe heard a little chatter from St. Laurence heading into his first Catholic League Blue start on Wednesday.
Chicago Police are investigating a report of a sexual assault at St. Francis de Sales High School on the Far South Side in late March.
Loyola coach Nick Bridich entered his team’s Tuesday visit to St. Rita with a healthy respect for the Mustangs that owed nothing to the No. 1 ranking in the nation bestowed on them this week by MaxPreps.
Oak Lawn coach Billy Gerny received quite a surprise a few weeks back, and a satisfying one at that. Senior shortstop Boo Quillin approached Gerny out of the blue about wanting to get back on the mound this season.
Perhaps no one knows what Neuqua Valley is supposed to be, and what it isn’t supposed to be, better than Tyler Tesmond.
St. Rita, Mount Carmel and Providence compose the top three.
Brent Villasenor jumped off the mound and whirled toward the dugout with an emphatic fist pump.