Downers Grove North won six events Thursday on its way to the team title at the Class 3A Glenbard North Sectional.
Area teams including Marmion Academy, Rock Falls, Sandwich, Sterling, Dixon, Mendota, Plano, Sycamore, Wheaton Academy and St. Francis were at Sycamore High School Thursday to compete in the IHSA Class 2A boys track sectional.
Teammates since they were nine years old, Downers Grove North seniors Jude Warwick and Jimmy Janicki recently became the sixth and seventh players in the program over the last 25 years to reach the 100-hit milestone. That, plus notes on Lemont and Downers Grove South.
Former Morton College athletic director and women’s basketball coach Jason Nichols was fired in March after a college investigation discovered that Nichols violated his employment agreement, according to one of two letters received by the by the Shaw Local News Network.
Downers Grove North senior Jimmy Janicki, who homered in the first and third game of the three-game series as the Trojans swept Lyons to clinch the West Suburban Silver title, is the Suburban Life Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is his Q&A with Joshua Welge.
Downers Grove North baseball beat York in eight innings, Westmont baseball threw a combined perfect game in a regional semifinal and Wheaton Warrenville South softball got its 20th win in Wednesday's roundup.
Hinsdale South senior Amerie “Mimi” Flowers had a memorable state ride during girls basketball with the Class 3A fourth-place finisher. Now she's headed to her first state track meet with a lifetime best shot put at sectionals. That, and much more in Bill Stone's track notebook.
Here are Sean King's photos from the Class 3A Glenbard East Regional semifinal between Geneva and Glenbard East.
Sophomore Ella Howard scored two goals in her first playoff game as Geneva's girls soccer team earned a 4-0 win over Glenbard East in a Class 3A Glenbard East Regional semifinal on Tuesday.