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• Jacobs celebrates first sectional crown May 18, 2013 12:00 AM
  Whether you were a Jacobs tennis player graduating or not, Saturday was quite the celebration to say the least. The Golden Eagles, who qualified all 6 of their participants in the Elgin sectional to state, won the sectional with 29 points, the program's first sectional championship. South Elgin placed second with 24 and Hampshire was third with 21. The meet, which was originally scheduled for 9 a.m. was moved up to 2 hours to accommodate Jacobs' graduation at the Sears Centre.
  

   
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  ECC Kids College offers summer enrichment May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  Elgin Community College will host students 6 to 16 this summer in week-long day camps offering enrichment opportunities while school is out. Budding lawyers, astronauts, filmmakers, writers, interior designers, artists, chefs, video game makers, actors and musicians will have the chance to hone their skills during the fifth year of ECC's Kids College.
  

   

• Grant garners first sectional title May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  Grant boys track and field coach Tom Evans spent Friday evening watching a parade of his Bulldogs qualify for next week's state meet in Charleston, but he continued pacing the infield nervously once the final event of the Class 3A Huntley sectional had concluded. Runner-up sectional finishes the previous two seasons tend to have that effect on a coach. Moments later his nervousness was replaced by excitement and pride as the North Suburban Conference champions were announced as sectional champions for the first time in school history. Grant garnered 83 team points to run away from Fox Valley Conference champion Huntley and NIC-10 Conference champion Belvidere North, which finished tied with 56 points.
  

   

• Full circle for Bianchina, Geneva at Hoffman Estates May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  Senior Mike Bianchina served as an alternate runner for Geneva when it won its last boys track and field sectional title in 2010.Three years later in the Hoffman Estates Class 3A sectional, Bianchina helped the Vikings to their second title in four years.Despite finishing tied for sixth out of 14 teams at the Upstate Conference tourney last week, Geneva rose to the occasion on Friday night and scored 103 points to top runner-up Schaumburg (88) and St. Charles North (80)."I always thought about it (going out with a sectional title after being part of one as a freshman)," Bianchina said. "This was a great night for the entire team."
  

   

• Baseball/Fox Valley roundup May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Softball/Fox Valley roundup May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Burlington Central has productive night at Sterling May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Burlington Central boys track team accomplished its goals Friday night at the Class 2A Sterling sectional. The Rockets qualified three relay teams and two individuals for next weekend's state finals in Charleston.
  

   
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  St. Edward savors Class 1A sectional title May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  You could sense the relief on the faces of St. Edward forward Allison Kruk and midfielder Corey Lepoudre when a Willows Academy player knocked a ball out of play late in the second half, a ball both looked at each other to get, but neither could. Kruk had been hit in the jaw by a ball earlier in the match and Lepoudre came off for her asthma at one point. And at the end of the Class 1A Westminster Christian sectional final, you could see the Green Wave were out of steam. Which is why there was good reason that Green Wave coach Tim Brieger asked his team in practice earlier this week to set the tone early against the Eagles. Gaining a measure of revenge over the team that beat them in the 2011 state third-place game, St. Edward beat Willows Academy 2-1 Friday to win the sectional title, the Green Wave's second sectional crown in the last three years.
  

   
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  Jacobs 3,200 relay team Friday’s fastest May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  The Jacobs 3,200-meter relay team made quite a statement Friday at the Class 3A state girls track and field finals in Charleston. The quartet of Molly Barnes, Tori Tamburrino, Sam Baran and Lauren VanVlierbergen won its heat and clocked the fastest time of all 3A teams at 9:16.19. The Golden Eagles will take a shot at school history in today's finals. No Jacobs girls individual or relay team has won a track state title. LaShawna Canty came the closest taking second in the high jump in 1998 and 1999.
  

   
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  Images: Girls Track & Field State Prelims May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  Images from preliminaries Friday at the IHSA Girls State Track and Field Meet at O'Brien Field on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
  

   
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  Scout Troops Contribute to the Fabric of Community in West Chicago May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  Scout Troops Contribute to the Fabric of Community in West Chicago
  

   

• Camps Combine Outdoor Experiences with Girls’ Modern Interests May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  Golf lessons, astronomy, art and sailing among the fun activities offered at local Girl Scout camps
  

   

• Elgin Theatre Co. auditions for "Love Letters" May 19May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  Elgin Theatre Company will hold open auditions for A.R. Gurney's "Love Letters" on Sunday, May 19, 2013, at the Sears Gallery in Elgin.
  

   

• Explore your relationship to nature with artistic expression May 17, 2013 12:00 AM
  What is an orange dove? Find out Saturday, June 8, when local artist Mary Telfer guides an exciting art experience from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Art Studio in the Sage Therapeutic Recreation Center at the Northern Illinois Special Recreation Association office, 285 Memorial Drive, Crystal Lake. The public is invited to participate in this new event.
  

   

• Employment picture is hardly rosy May 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  ASleepy Hollow letter to the editor: As unemployment fell to 7.5 percent in April, its lowest level since December, 2008, the pool of available workers remains substantial. There are still 11.7 million Americans looking for work with 4.4 million of them searching for six months or more. More troubling are the 6.1 million 15- to 24-year-old Americans who are neither employed or studying.
  

   

• Lambert suits Wauconda in athletic director’s role May 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  Athletic directors never rest, and Andy Lambert can empathize. The new AD on the block has a starter kit at home. Jake is 2. Luke is 3 months. Andy and wife Meagan go through lots of diapers and ... “Lots of coffee,” Lambert joked. He didn’t need a caffeine boost Thursday night. Lambert was new-daddy pumped about being approved by Wauconda Unit School District 118 as the high school’s new athletic director. Sharply dressed in a pinstripe suit, Lambert is sharp, period.
  

   

• Efflandt returns in Cary-Grove win May 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   

• Baseball/Fox Valley roundup May 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  
  

   
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  Homers put St. Edward in regional final May 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  The wind didn’t blow at gale force Thursday afternoon in Elgin. Perhaps 10-15 mph sustained. But the warm, southerly wind blew straight up the hill upon which Westminster Christian’s tony baseball diamond sits and straight out to left field, thereby creating a lifting effect that turned any flyball hit in that direction from ordinary to extraordinary. St. Edward hit 2 such flies: Jack Tierney’s first-inning, 2-run home run and Tighe Koehring’s solo shot to lead off the bottom of the fourth inning. Koehring’s home run gave No. 2 St. Edward a 3-2 lead it never relinquished in a Class 2A regional semifinal victory over No. 3 Aurora Christian.
  

   
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  Charities unite to bring physical education to youth organizations in Latin AmericaMay 16, 2013 12:00 AM
  Local Charity Gear For Goals partners with Willow Creek Community Church to provide baseball equipment to youth organizations in the Dominican Republic