Itasca Sports
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Preliminarily, a good dayMay 24, 2013 8:13 am - CHARLESTON — The pressure’s on, but Lake Park’s Antonio Shenault doesn’t feel it ... much. In the preliminaries of the 119th boys state track meet Friday at Eastern Illi...
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For several Class 1A athletes, one more race to goMay 23, 2013 3:05 pm - CHARLESTON — Jake Hooker mentioned one motivation shared by most every athlete who competed in Thursday’s Class 1A preliminaries of the boys state track finals. “Just th...
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Naperville North soocer player nets big honorMay 23, 2013 1:00 pm - Naperville North soccer player Zoe Swift was one of the athletes whose picture graced the cover of our spring sports preview. On Tuesday she became the recipient of a mu...
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Ventrella pitches Lisle into sectional finalMay 23, 2013 12:54 am - Lisle 4, Walther Lutheran 1: In a game played in Lockport, the Lions (19-10) advanced to the Class 2A Benedictine University sectional final behind Alex Ventrella...
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The kicker is, St. Francis gets winMay 22, 2013 8:49 pm - St. Francis sophomore Corky Hart cramped up during Wednesday’s Class 2A Riverside-Brookfield sectional semifinal against Hinsdale South. Hart’s dehydration and cramping...
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Lake Park works hard to avoid eliminationMay 22, 2013 4:41 pm - It took a handful of innings, but that sense of urgency finally kicked in for Lake Park’s baseball team. The top-seeded Lancers were pushed to the brink of playoff elimi...
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Hampshire gets past Wheaton AcademyMay 22, 2013 4:33 pm - Hampshire junior Michael Merchut and Whip-Purs’ baseball coach John Sarna each said Wednesday that the hardest playoff game is the first one. The Whip-Purs overcame a s...
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Simmons is back, and so is Waubonsie ValleyMay 21, 2013 8:53 pm - As they say, in high school volleyball anything can happen in the postseason, and Tuesday produced the first big upset of the tournament as the regional host and No. 15 ...
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Second-half stretch sends Benet to defeatMay 21, 2013 8:48 pm - As Benet girls soccer coach Bob Gros prepared to leave Hinsdale Central’s Dickinson Field after Tuesday’s 3-0 loss to the host Red Devils in the first of two Class 3A se...
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Benet’s York homers twice to beat Metea ValleyMay 21, 2013 3:30 pm - Emily York hit 2 homers in an 8-run second inning, her sixth and seventh of the year, and that big inning boosted No. 2 seed Benet past Metea Valley 11-2 on Tuesday at t...