Prep Sports
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DuPage County and Fox Valley baseball roundup: Downers Grove North, Hampshire, Burlington Central among regional championsMay 31, 2025 8:15 pm - Trailing 2-1 through the middle innings, Downers Grove North senior Sean Cabaj came through with the game’s biggest hit — a 2-run single in the fifth — to help lift the T...
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Baseball: Aurora Christian falls in sectional championship game
May 31, 2025 8:07 pm - The Marquette baseball team had all kinds of traffic on the base paths in three of the first four innings against Aurora Christian in Saturday’s Class 1A Harvest Christia...
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Baseball: Lake Zurich holds off Fremd’s furious rally on bittersweet day for Piggott familyMay 31, 2025 8:01 pm - There wasn’t a more difficult seat to sit in Saturday in Palatine than the aluminum bleacher seat that Stephanie Piggott was in. Piggott, sitting directly behind home pla...
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Cook and Lake County baseball roundup: Mundelein, Prospect’s offenses come alive in regional championship winsMay 31, 2025 7:53 pm - Mundelein hit Palatine with an 8-ball Saturday in the first inning of the Class 4A Palatine regional baseball championship game. The Mustangs then relied on solid pitchi...
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Baseball: Rooney’s three-run blast rallies Benet past Kaneland to regional title
May 31, 2025 6:53 pm - Nursing a 1-0 advantage over Benet in the second inning of Saturday’s Class 3A regional title game, on its home field, Kaneland wiggled out of a base loaded jam to stay i...
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Baseball: Cary-Grove defeats Antioch for 3rd regional championship in a row
May 31, 2025 5:49 pm - Oskar Freund’s two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the first inning put his team ahead early, and Cary-Grove’s bats never slowed down as the Trojans defeated the Seq...
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Baseball: Waubonsie Valley erupts for 11 runs in 4th inning to oust West AuroraMay 31, 2025 5:37 pm - After three innings the scoreboard at Waubonsie Valley showed nothing but zeros, and after three-and-half frames it only showed a single 1. But that 1 was deceiving, as t...
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Girls soccer: Lucier’s strike sends Barrington to sectional titleMay 31, 2025 5:31 pm - An early goal from Piper Lucier was enough to give Barrington a 1-0 sectional final victory Saturday afternoon over Lake Zurich at the host Warren Township to send the Fi...
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Boys volleyball: Libertyville, New Trier advance to sectional final at BarringtonMay 31, 2025 4:36 pm - Libertyville’s smallest uniform number is reserved for its tallest player: 6-foot-10 middle hitter Nathan Knight. Sporting No. 0, the junior and Ball State commit filled...
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Baseball: Crystal Lake South holds off ‘Cinderella’ Central to win regional title
May 31, 2025 4:29 pm - Beating its crosstown rival that hadn’t lost a postseason baseball game in two years, and beating the hitter who beat them up all year, required everything Crystal Lake S...