Articles filed under Plato Center

• Softball/Fox Valley roundup May 11, 2013 12:00 AM
  Paige Allen fired a 3-hit shutout and Cassidy Westlund scored the game's only run on a wild pitch in the top of the seventh inning Saturday as the South Elgin softball team stayed alive in the Upstate Eight Valley race with a 1-0 win at Metea Valley.
  

   
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  Kaneland snares sectional title May 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  Kaneland girls track coach Doug Ecker says his team's goal going into a sectional meet is to qualify as many athletes as possible to the state meet. But earning a sectional championship is nice too. The Knights won the Class 2A Burlington Central sectional title Friday night with 83 points. Hampshire was second with 74. Burlington Central took third with 69 points.
  

   

• Cary-Grove’s Stanley throws no-hitter May 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  Junior Lauren Stanley had her best outing since taking over the circle for injured senior Lindsay Efflandt, throwing a no-hitter Friday as Cary-Grove's softball team defeated Dundee-Crown 1-0 in a Fox Valley Conference Valley Division game at Cary-Grove. Stanley (7-3) struck out 7 and walked 1 as the Trojans (18-3, 9-2) remained in a first-place tie in the Valley with McHenry and Prairie Ridge. Cary-Grove plays at PR Monday.
  

   

• Softball/Fox Valley roundup May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Burlington Central wins BNC title May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  On Monday, the Burlington Central girls track team tied with Byron for first place at the Big Northern Conference meet. On Thursday at the BNC boys meet at Oregon, the Rockets scored enough points to avoid a tie and claim the conference championship. Burlington Central used first-place finishes from Ryan Olsen in the 400 meters and Lucas Ege in the 300 hurdles to help the point total as the Rockets scored 95 points, barely outdistancing second-place Winnebago, which scored 91.
  

   

• Burlington Central clinches Big Northern East May 9, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Burlington Central baseball team clinched the outright Big Northern Conference East Division championship with an 8-2 victory at Rockford Christian in six innings Thursday. The BNC East title is the second straight for Central (11-8, 10-2) and the program's fourth in five seasons.
  

   

• Softball/Fox Valley roundup May 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Hampshire putting it all together May 8, 2013 12:00 AM
  In years past, while Hampshire's Patti Nihells, one of the longest-tenured area girls track coaches, may not have had the largest teams but she's always had talented individual athletes both on the track and in the field events. This year, Hampshire is enjoying the best of both worlds. The Whip-Purs are fresh off winning the Fox Valley Conference Fox Division team title in only their second year in the conference. Hampshire, which finished third overall in the 14-team FVC meet, will look to continue that season-long success at Friday's Class 2A Burlington Central sectional. At the sectional level, the top two place-finishers in each event and any individual or relay team equaling or surpassing the minimum state-qualifying standard in each event advance to the state finals in Charleston at Eastern Illinois University.
  

   

• Baseball/Fox Valley roundup May 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Tri-Cities police reports May 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  Four tires were stolen from outside a garage in the 6N700 block of Irwin Avenue near St. Charles between 12:01 a.m. April 28 and 6 a.m. April 29, according to a sheriff's report.
  

   

• Fox Valley police reports May 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  Authorities were called to the 11N300 block of Russell Road in Plato Township at 1:52 p.m. April 28 for a report of shots fired, according to a sheriff's report, No arrests were made. Police found more than 150 shell casings from different types of guns around a small campfire littered with beer cans, the report said.
  

   
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  David Lindley brings the world to the ECC Arts Center May 10 May 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  Multi-instrumentalist David Lindley will perform his unique brand of world music during a performance at the Elgin Community College Arts Center on Friday, May 10. The performance will begin at 8 p.m. at the Blizzard Theater in Building H, the ECC Arts Center, on the Spartan Drive Campus, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin.
  

   

• Softball/Fox Valley roundup May 7, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Baseball/Fox Valley roundup May 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Burlington Central shares BNC title May 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Burlington Central girls track team captured a share of the Big Northern Conference championship Monday night when the Rockets tied Byron, each scoring 84 points at the conference meet at Genoa-Kingston.
  

   

• Girls soccer/Fox Valley roundup May 6, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Girls soccer/Fox Valley roundup May 4, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• The SoapboxMay 4, 2013 12:00 AM
  Read our editors' opinions about gender diversity in Arlington Heights, an outstanding library in Waukegan and a former House speaker's Olympic push, among other topics.
  

   

• Softball/Fox Valley roundup May 4, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Unexpected good pitching at core of Bartlett’s surge May 4, 2013 12:00 AM
  The odds did not favor Bartlett having another strong softball season back in March. The Hawks had plenty of talent returning from their 2012 Class 4A state runner-up team, but they lost an all-state catcher to injury and they had about 6 innings of varsity pitching experience returning. But here it is May a year later and, yep, there's Bartlett surging again. The Hawks are 18-6 overall and 9-2 in the Upstate Eight Conference, currently a game ahead of the pack in the Valley Division.