School News
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
The Seminole Ridge High School baseball team is off to a disappointing start, but coach Trent Pendergast believes the Hawks can turn it around.After dropping a 3-2 decision to powerful Jupiter in a d...
6 rays of light boost JCA
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
A team from Joliet is in the state baseball finals. Right-hander Andrew Giaudrone is the No. 1 pitcher. His catcher is Kevin Hulbert, although Hulbert does some pitching as well. ... The local team ra...
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
When Joliet Catholic Academy advanced to the Class 3A State Baseball Tournament a year ago, the Hilltoppers came in with the No. 1 ranking and walked away disappointed. They did finish third on the st...
Thursday, 11 June 2009
JOLIET -- When Joliet Catholic Academy advanced to the Class 3A State Baseball Tournament a year ago, the Hilltoppers came in with the No. 1 ranking and walked away disappointed. Read more ...
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
A pair of warning-track outs in the seventh inning helped LaSalle-Peru hold off a stubborn Oswego team 4-3 Tuesday in a Class 3A supersectional in Rock Island, ending the Panthers' improbable playoff ...
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
Dick Goss: A team from Joliet is in the state baseball finals. Right-hander Andrew Giaudrone is the No. 1 pitcher. His catcher is Kevin Hulbert, although Hulbert does some pitching as well. R...
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
When they capped off their first appearance in the IHSAClass 2AState Baseball Tournament with a third-place finish, the Morrison Mustangs knew they had raised the bar considerably for the teams that w...
Tuesday, 09 June 2009
MARION — With virtually everyone coming back from Marion’s 2008 baseball team that fell to eventual Class 3A state champion Highland in the sectional semifinals, high expectations were established...
Knights get hero’s welcome in E’ville
Monday, 08 June 2009
The Metro-East Lutheran Knights’ charter bus limped back onto campus Sunday afternoon in Edwardsville from its long journey, stopping at the entrance of the parking lot so the Class 2A second place ...
Super showdown: Sandburg, St. Rita battle for state finals berth
Monday, 08 June 2009
The baseball gods could not have penned a better script for high school baseball fans tonight. The SouthtownStar's No. 1 vs. No. 2. Arguably the region's most prolific public school powerhouse...
Sunday, 07 June 2009
Cary-Grove seeks its first state berth. Batavia qualified for the Class AA quarterfinals in 2004. The Trojans have won 30 games for the first time in school history. Read more A...
Sunday, 07 June 2009
Marissa made too many errors and Raymond Lincolnwood capitalized for a 3-1 victory in the Class 1A baseball title game on Saturday afternoon. Read more Add comment (0) ...
Saturday, 06 June 2009
Andrew vs. Sandburg. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 59
Saturday, 06 June 2009
LINCOLN — The Chatham Glenwood Titans will square off against the host Lincoln Railers at 11 a.m. today for the championship of the Class AA Lincoln Sectional. The game will be broadcast on SportsRa...
Saturday, 06 June 2009
Most of the Larkin baseball players are sporting mohawks, a trend that grew more widespread with each postseason victory. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 44
Saturday, 06 June 2009
Batavia's Tim Drish was fielding questions about his home run in Thursday's sectional semifinal win over Wheaton Warrenville South, when all of a sudden the senior left fielder stopped. Read ...
Friday, 05 June 2009
The Metro-East Lutheran Knights baseball program is preparing to embark on uncharted waters for their school — the final four. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 64...
Friday, 05 June 2009
The Marissa Meteors are making a repeat appearance at the IHSA Class 1A state baseball tournament today after finishing second at last year's event. Read more Add comment (0) ...
Decade of dominance
Friday, 05 June 2009
Seven hundred wins. That’s how many victories the Olympia softball and baseball teams have combined for over the last 11 seasons. Basic English grammar rules dictate that it be s...
Friday, 05 June 2009
The Marissa Meteors are making a repeat appearance at the IHSA Class 1A state baseball tournament today after finishing second at last year's event. Read more Add comment (0) ...
Friday, 05 June 2009
The London Mills Spoon River Valley High School Wildcats baseball team has seven seniors on the roster, and these guys have grown up together as players, going from 17 wins as freshmen to 25 wins as s...
Friday, 05 June 2009
Pleasant Plains had gathered a pie plate full of disappointment and maneuvered it within inches of the Olympia High School baseball team’s collective face. Read more Add comme...
4A St. Charles North sectional preview
Thursday, 04 June 2009
Class 4A St. Charles North sectional preview No. 3 Batavia (28-6) vs. No. 7 Wheaton Warrenville South (20-13) Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 96
Tuesday, 02 June 2009
Sophomore Nick Hahn, who has a school-record 11 wins, and freshman Tanner Scott, who has tied a school record with nine home runs, are playing beyond their years for Burlington Central's conference an...
Shelby Sluggers Earn Awards
Tuesday, 02 June 2009
The Shelbyville Ram baseball team didn’t advance very far into the playoffs this year, but they sure had fits of power that punctuated their ‘09 season. Recently, they gave out awards for this int...
Monday, 01 June 2009
The Herrin Tigers and Marissa Meteors are playing good baseball at the right time and both squads compete in today's prep super-sectionals. Read more Add comment (0) ...
Monday, 01 June 2009
There figures to be plenty of offense this afternoon at the Class 2A Springfield Supersectional baseball tournament at Lincoln Land Community College’s Claude Kracik Field. Read more ...
Schwalbach Scholarship
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Schwalbach Scholarship - The family of Nick Schwalbach announced Tuesday that the recepient of the ninth annual Nick Schwalbach Scholarship is EHS senior Kraig Rehkemper, center right. The award was e...
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
After spending Saturday evening during the Memorial Day holiday weekend enjoying their first regional baseball championship in three years, the Orion Chargers didn't waste any time in setting their si...
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
MATTOON – Seeded fourth out of four teams, Mattoon has won nine of its last 10 games heading into its own baseball regional. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 69 ...
Monday, 25 May 2009
How challenging is the upcoming St. Charles North Class 4A sectional baseball tournament? Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 65

Tuesday, 09 March 2010
The Galesburg High School baseball team will wait tables at the Pizza House, 132 E. Simmons St., from 5-8 p.m. Wednesday as a fund raiser. Read more Add comment (0) ...
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Baseball America has released its preseason national baseball rankings and two area teams broke into the top 50.Last year's Class 4A runner-up St. Rita begins the season at No. 13 on the strength of...
Monday, 22 February 2010
HARRISBURG - The Harrisburg High School baseball team is hosting a chicken and dumpling dinner on Feb. 28 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Lions Club Den. Read more Add comme...
Stewart: At Morton, nice just isn’t enough
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Steve Schupp will coach his final boys basketball home game Friday at Morton, a moment he didn’t think would come for two more seasons. After 38 years on the job, the man who...
Balk called on St. Rita baseball
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Mike Zunica arguably is the most maligned baseball coach in the Southland, a lightning rod of criticism for opposing coaches, parents and administrators. In January, acting on multiple tips, IHSA ex...
Harrisburg pitches in for Haiti
Saturday, 06 February 2010
HARRISBURG - Hard work is not limited to the weight room or playing field for the Harrisburg High School baseball team. Read more Add comment (0) ...
Friday, 05 February 2010
A high school baseball program that spawned a Cardinal career could be canceled. A budget shortage is forcing the small Piasa, Illinois school district to make some tough decisions. One of those decis...
Friday, 05 February 2010
The Enrico Fermi High School baseball team will hold a fundraiser at Chicago Sam's on Thursday, Jan. 28, from 5 to 9 p.m. A portion of all of the food sales that night will go to the school's baseb...
Saturday, 16 January 2010
HHS boys baseball team will be collecting supplies that will be sent to Haiti. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 41
E’ville baseball story unfolds
Saturday, 02 January 2010
Maybe the largest rumble on the Edwardsville athletics scene in 2009 came in the offseason of its sport.The buzz surrounding the unveiling of the Edwardsville Tiger baseball program’s plan to star...
Friday, 09 October 2009
Carmel Catholic has its new baseball coach. Social studies faculty member and Carmel alumnus Joe May will replace Chuck Gandolfi, whose contract was not renewed. For the past six years, May has serv...
Tuesday, 06 October 2009
After months of uncertainty, the Ron Czarnecki era is officially over at Oak Forest High School. The school named Thaddeus Gatton its new varsity baseball coach. Read more Add ...
Saturday, 25 July 2009
After losing to New Trier in the Class 4A state baseball championship last month, St. Rita gets a chance at redemption in this week's Phil Lawler Summer Classic. Read more Add c...
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Dick Goss: Wilmington High School is a perennial power in Joliet area baseball. The critics are quick to point out the Wildcats play on the small-school level. But when Wilmington had its best team a ...
Monday, 22 June 2009
After seeing their spring season come to a frustratingly early end, Ryan March and his Brother Rice baseball teammates are intent on moving forward. On Tuesday, March sparked the Crusaders to an 8-7 w...
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Kyle Nelson took an inexperienced Burlington Central club and guided it to a 25-7 record and a berth in the Class 3A sectional finals. For that, he's the Courier News Baseball Coach of the Year for th...
Thursday, 18 June 2009
St. Viator's athletic program is in for some significant changes when the 2009-10 school year begins. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 61
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Still stinging from a close loss to New Trier in last weekend's Class 4A state championship game, St. Rita was back on the field on Wednesday to start preparing for the 2010 season. Read more...
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
The Edwardsville Tigers baseball team enjoyed much success in 2009 and a big reason for that was the two juggernaut bats nestled in the middle of their lineup. Read more Add com...
Monday, 15 June 2009
Bill Scheibe: Tinker to Evers to Chance remains the most famous double-play combination in Cubs history. Likewise, Joliet Catholic baseball fans will not soon forget the relay of left fielder John Ger...
Monday, 15 June 2009
CHATHAM — Overcast skies and the occasional splatter of raindrops couldn’t keep Chatham from celebrating three Glenwood High School spring sports teams going to state. About 100 people attended th...
Saturday, 13 June 2009
Prep baseball: Three days before the start of his sophomore year in high school, budding actor Vinnie Hughes left behind the California sun and the Hollywood sound stages, moving with his family to th...
Friday, 12 June 2009
The return of “An I on Sports” comes after a two-week hiatus, the reason for its omission — that pesky Metro-East Lutheran Knight baseball team. Read more Add comment (0) ...
St. Rita sticking to plan
Friday, 12 June 2009
St. Rita baseball coach Mike Zunica is not a proponent of scouting the opposition, which goes against the grain of many of his peers. Read more Add comment (0) Hi...
Friday, 12 June 2009
What little they know about each other translates into mutual respect and the expectation that today’s 10 a.m. Class 3A State Baseball Tournament semifinal matchup between the LaSalle-Peru High Scho...
Friday, 12 June 2009
Watching from the grandstand through the years, Cary-Grove coach Don Sutherland has seen what it takes to win state titles. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 82 ...
Friday, 12 June 2009
Class 3A state semifinal Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 83
It's the place for aces
Friday, 12 June 2009
Despite drawing from a relatively small area, the LaSalle-Peru baseball team has an impressive track record when it comes to turning out professional pitching prospects.   In 2001,...
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Bill Scheibe: By the bottom of the third inning Monday, Joliet Catholic senior Dan Duffy had departed from his perch atop the steps of the Standard Bank Stadium dugout to begin warming up senior relie...
Thursday, 11 June 2009
An aspiring actor in southern California before moving to the Midwest, pitcher Vinnie Hughes now plays an important supporting role for Joliet Catholic's baseball team. Read more ...
Thursday, 11 June 2009
St. Rita coach Mike Zunica is less interested about countering what O'Fallon might do in Friday's Class 4A baseball semifinals than in making sure the Mustangs do what has made them successful all spr...
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Though Joliet Catholic is the most battle-tested of the Class 3A semifinalists, the Hilltoppers aren't taking anything for granted this weekend. Read more Add comment (0) ...
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Though St. Rita comes into the Class 4A semifinals on a high after beating top-ranked Sandburg in the supersectional, each of the other three teams is a potential title contender. Read more ...
Tri-Cities baseball season wrap-up
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Aurora Christian Final record: 25-11. Seaon ended: Lost 9-3 to Watseka in Class 2A Benedictine supersectional. Top returnees in 2010: Stephen Clancy (sr., CF); Matt Morse (sr., SS); Mitch Hol...
Rams' ace will take hill against 'Toppers
Thursday, 11 June 2009
The list of state-finalists from the East Suburban Catholic Conference in prep baseball is long and distinguished. Read more Add comment (0) Hits: 118

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