Prep Sports
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Team fundraisers stuck in neutralApr 08, 2020 1:00 am - The Fenton softball team had its eyes on a pitching machine. Not just any pitching machine. This one could also be taken from the batting cage outdoors and used to help...
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Memorial Field at Elgin High getting a major makeoverApr 07, 2020 1:00 am - The Memorial Field makeover is under way. Construction began two weeks ago on the recently approved $4.6 million renovation of the 59-year-old Elgin High School facility...
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Minor league players from area still have hopes for 2020 seasonApr 07, 2020 1:00 am - As he waits to cash a paycheck again, young pitcher Lake Bachar understands it's all about potential gains. Fact is, 2020 could go down as the most rewarding year of his...
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How the shutdown has impacted lower level high school athletesApr 07, 2020 1:00 am - As she begins her fifth season as a lower level softball coach for Hersey High School, Catherine Zaworski didn't expect to be working more with her players on the comput...
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Clubhouse Chatter: If you weren't a sports writer, what would you be?Apr 07, 2020 1:00 am - What our Sports staff has to say while waiting for the games to resume. I was an economics major in college, so hopefully I could devise some sort of company or televisi...
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Former Elgin all-stater Harrington hasn't lost love of basketballApr 07, 2020 1:00 am - It's been 21 years since Sean Harrington left Elgin High School as the program's all-time leading scorer, but the sweet-shooting, son-of-a-coach, all-stater can rattle o...
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With help from family, colleagues, Downers Grove coach goes from football to face shieldsApr 07, 2020 1:00 am - Not too long ago, Downers Grove South High School teacher Mark Molinari was best known as the school's varsity football coach. That changed last week. The career and tec...
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Former Warren, CLC coach Ramsey missing basketball but enjoying lifeApr 06, 2020 1:00 am - Long before the basketball season was abruptly interrupted by COVID-19, and became a very different kind of basketball season than any of us has ever seen, it was also t...
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Clubhouse Chatter: Question headlineApr 06, 2020 1:00 am - What our Sports staff has to say while waiting for the games to resume. A teacher and coach. Both of my parents are teachers, and I used to make my younger brothers play...
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Umpires missing paychecks, camaraderie spring sports bringApr 06, 2020 1:00 am - Jeff Collis knows at least 600 people longing to shout out, "Play Ball!" Collis, the assignment supervisor for the Fox Valley Blues, works with athletic directors at abo...