Hart Pisani

Jaelle Hamilton hit two homers and Gracie Anderson homered once, and Minooka got two early runs and never looked back as the softball team took down Plainfield East on Friday.

Minooka's duo of Nate George and Dejay Smith shined, while Plainfield South had a few winners as well on Wednesday at the Southwest Prairie Conference Meet.

Oswego scored three goals in a three-minute span midway through the second half to secure the victory over Joliet West on Tuesday.

Lockport remains undefeated and more notes from the girls soccer season thus far.

At the time of this writing, Dimitrijevic had struck out 192 batters in 90 1/3 innings for Lincoln-Way Central.

It's been an up-and-down season for Lincoln-Way West co-op's boys lacrosse team, but Saturday saw the Warriors put forth one of their top efforts with a 10-2 South Suburban Conference win over Oak Forest co-op.

The game switched locations late due to field conditions at Plainfield Central, but Lincoln-Way West was still considered the road team Friday. That didn't stop them from taking a 7-3 victory.

Trailing by three runs entering the bottom of the sixth, Joliet Catholic put five runs up and got the win to hand Manteno its first loss of the season.

Chris Kinsella serves as an assistant football coach for Joliet Catholic and a full-time firefighter in Joliet.

Joliet West honored seven seniors Tuesday as the Tigers coasted to a 7-0 Southwest Prairie Conference win against Joliet Central.

It's been a fantastic start for Lincoln-Way West at 19-0, but their goal is to go undefeated in the postseason.

Lincoln-Way West have yet to drop a contest this season while Joliet Catholic looks like they could make another state title run. That and more in this week's Herald-News baseball notebook.

Joliet Catholic had little trouble against St. Viator in the first set and shook off an early slump in the second to earn a 25-14, 26-24 sweep Wednesday on the Hilltoppers' senior night.

Lemont's Rehan Saraiya and Sean Svoboda have been dominant at No. 1 doubles this season and own a 9-0 record after a perfect run through the top doubles bracket at Saturday's Joliet Steelman Invite.

Joliet Central went up by six runs in the first two innings before Plainfield East came all the way back for a 10-8 win in their Southwest Prairie Conference game Tuesday.