November 23, 2024
Sports

High school sports roundup: Lyons Township takes title at own gymnastics invite

By SUBURBAN LIFE
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Lyons Township's Finn Dowling competes on the parallel bars March 10 at his school's inaugural gymnastics invitational. Dowling won vault and was one of five different individual event champions for the Lions as they won the team title. (Bill Ackerman)

WESTERN SPRINGS – The inaugural Lyons Township boys gymnastics invite could not have gone much better for the host team.

The Lions had five individual champs as they posted a 156.550 score to easily win the team title ahead of Hinsdale Central (143.650) on March 10.

Luke Szczesniak (8.3 on pommel horse), Finn Dowling (9.3 on vault), Matt Hurd (9.0 on rings), Nick Perez (9.0 on parallel bars) and Alex Janicki (8.9 on horizontal bar) were champions.

Dowling was second on horizontal bar (8.7).

Janicki (8.8 on parallel bars), Perez (8.0 on pommel horse) and Sam Dillon (8.7 on rings) had third-place finishes.

Floor exercise was the only event that LT did not crown a champion. Dowling (9.6) and Janicki (9.5) were second and third, respectively.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Fenwick

A 10-0 surge to start the second half erased a 27-26 halftime deficit and sent the Friars on their way to a 60-46 win against North Lawndale in the Class 3A Fenwick sectional final March 10.

It was the first sectional title since 1998 for Fenwick (28-4), which faced St. Viator in a supersectional game March 14 for a berth in the state finals.

DJ Steward had 19 points to lead Fenwick. Jacob Keller added 17 points.

BOYS TRACK AND FIELD

Lyons Township

Lyons Township’s Vince Zona and Danny Kilrea competed at the New Balance National Indoor meet in New York on March 10 to 12.

Zona was second in the 1-mile run for emerging elites with a time of 4:17.34.

Kilrea placed seventh in the 2-mile run championship heat in 9:07.25.

Closer to home, Charles Harders had the Lyons’ best finish at Batavia’s Distance Madness invite on March 11. He placed ninth in the 1,600-meter run with a time of 4:27.51.

Morton

The Mustangs had numerous runner-up finishes as they placed third at the Argo invite on March 11.

Colin Anderson was second in the 1,600-meter run (4:43.55), and Brandon Saavedra finished second in the 3,200 run (10:35.85).

Morton’s Anthony Cruz took second in the pole vault (10 feet, 6 inches), and Daquan Travis finished second in the high jump (5-8).

Dominick Lopez (53.97 seconds) and German Tinoco (55.21) went 3-4 in the 400 dash, Aldean Diaz was fourth in the 600 run (1:32.34), and Pedro Ocampo was fourth in the 1,600 (4:48.91).

GIRLS WATER POLO

Lyons Township

The Lions went 2-1 at the Stevenson tournament March 11.

Lyons Township won its first two matches by a combined score of 29-0 before falling 6-5 against host Stevenson.

In a 21-0 win against Wheeling, Frannie Bailey, Hanna Good and Rhyan Komsthoeft scored four goals each while Annika Moore, Maggie Piwowarczyk, Olivia Ohm and Abby Ahrens had two apiece. Victoria Guevara also scored.

Allie Bradbury made eight saves in net against Wheeling.

Bailey, Moore, Good, Guevara, Piwowarczyk, Ohm, Komsthoeft and Ahrens scored one goal each in an 8-0 win against Palatine. Bradbury needed to make just six saves in net, thanks in part to five steals by Moore. Ohm had three steals while Bailey and Good had two steals each.

Good netted three goals against Stevenson, with Guevara and Ohm also scoring. Moore had 10 steals in the game, and Bradbury made seven saves.

LT is 2-2 on the season.