Conant's Rothstein aims to help out at Platteville
Conant softball first baseman Hailey Rothstein plans to study nursing or physical therapy, two fields in which helping others is the main focus.
In high school, Rothstein has focused on being helpful with community service, including Feed My Starving Children, Almost Home Foundation, Adopt a Sailor and Operation North Pole.
She has also found time to help her Cougars softball team win two Mid-Suburban League champions in the last three years.
Her powerful offensive game hardly went unnoticed by the staff of Wisconsin-Platteville, where Rothstein will spend her collegiate career.
"I saw Hailey play at a tournament and I was immediately interested," said Platteville coach Lee Negrelli. "She had great fundamentals around the bag at first base as well as a solid swing and good power. I believe she will be an excellent addition to our Pioneer softball program and she will certainly compete for a starting position as a freshman. Her potential is extraordinary and we are very excited to see what she can do at the next level."
A four-year varsity player, the left-handed hitting Rothstein had 7 home runs last year, including the team's 50th for the season. She had a .995 fielding percentage, .376 batting average, .720 slugging percentage and contributed 30 RBI for her team.
Rothstein is an IHSA Scholastic Achievement Award recipient, has maintained a 3.6-3.8 GPA all four years and is a member of the National Honor Society.
Baseball
Bradley sophomore pitcher Matt Dennis (Rolling Meadows) set the Braves' career saves record in a doubleheader split at North Florida to complete their eight-game spring break trip.
Braves freshman right-hander Jordan Fedro (Prospect) turned in his second straight solid start and was credited with a win against Iowa. Fedro (2-0) worked around 5 hits, allowing 1 run with 2 walks and a strikeout in 5 innings.
Teammate Paul Solka (Maine West) had 2 hits, including a triple.
Softball
Georgia Southern sophomore Michelle Mazur cracked the starting lineup in the third weekend of the season and has started the last 25 games.
On the Eagles' last seven-game road trip, she hit .294 going 5-for-17 against No. 6-ranked Louisiana Lafeyette, No. 30 Texas and Sunbelt rival Texas Arlington.
Mazur began the spring break road trip against the Rajin Cajuns going 2-5 with 2 singles, 2 walks and a hit by pitch.
She belted a double off the top of the center field wall against Texas and closed out the road trip against Texas Arlington with a single and home run in the Eagles' first Sunbelt conference victory.
Mazur has also been strong defensively at third base, committing only 2 errors in the 21 games that she has started with a fielding percentage of .960.
• Wisconsin-Oshkosh sophomore Sara Brunlieb (Rolling Meadows) pitched the 11th no-hitter in program history in a 12-0 victory over Thomas College (Maine).
Brunlieb struck out three and walked one. She walked the second Thomas College batter of the game before retiring the last 14. The offense for Oshkosh (10-6) offense backed up Brunlieb (6-2) with 14 hits, including five for extra bases.
• Millikin's Becca Thompson (Schaumburg) had 2 hits in the big Blue's 9-5 victory in game one of a doubleheader against Monmouth.
Thompson tripled home Millikin's third run in the fifth inning.
Men's basketball
Georgia Southern freshman Jake Allsmiller, son of former Buffalo Grove all-stater Brian Allsmiller, played a key role off the bench this season for the Sun Belt Conference runners-up.
The 6-5 Allsmiller, whose father played for Vanderbilt, played four years at Christ Presbyterian Academy in Nashville, winning state championships in 2012 and 2013. He was a three-time all-state selection and once made 12 three-pointers in a game. He made 457 career three-pointers to set a new school record and rank third in Tennessee history.
Women's basketball
Old Dominion sophomore forward Destinee Young (Hoffman Estates) scored a career-high 20 points with 7 rebounds in 26 minutes during a 69-62 win over Virgina in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament.
Young netted 8 points and 7 rebounds in the Lady Monarch's final game of the season, a 71-66 loss at Villanova in the second round of the NIT.
Indoor football
Chicago Blitz quarterback Tommy Kudyba (Elk Grove) threw 4 touchdown passes in a season-opening 46-24 victory over the host Cleveland Saints.
Baseball
Millikin's Erik Schurtz (Rolling Meadows) belted a home run while going 3-3 with 2 RBI in the Big Blue's 15-4 win over visiting Dominican in the first game of a doubleheader. Millikin won game two, 10-6, as Schurtz continued his hot hitting with 3 hits.
Women's tennis
Augustana's Dana Goggin (Buffalo Grove) won both of her singles and doubles matches over Principia and Lake Forest last Saturday at the Quad City Tennis Club. She earned College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin "Player of the Week" earlier in the week after going 2-0 in singles play during the week of March 16-22. She sports a 24-3 record this season as the Vikings' No. 2 singles player.
Men's lacrosse
Augustana junior Jonathan Bryk (Fremd) has 23 ground balls.
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