Lake Zurich Sports
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Plenty for Stortz to smile aboutNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Getting the media-reluctant Bryan Stortz to return my phone calls -- or those of any other reporter for that matter -- can be tough enough sometimes. He has told me that...
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Genuine sportsmanship takes back seat to IHSA's greedNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Somewhere, Add A. Tude must have been cringing. With one hand the IHSA preaches about the values of sportsmanship in the form of its orange and blue foamed mascot that ...
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Teams thinking young this seasonNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - Boys bowling in Lake County sports a youthful appearance this season. All three teams -- Lake Zurich, Stevenson and Vernon Hills -- were hit with graduation losses and w...
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No regrets for DiMatteoNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - He wasn't sick with envy, or with regret, although it would have been perfectly understandable if he had been. No, Mike DiMatteo was just plain sick. That's why he didn'...
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Lake Zurich puts chill on WarrenNov 27, 2007 10:00 pm - Sarah Boothe, who never shoots too far from the basket, had trouble shooting. Lory Shaw, a good foul shooter, rattled free throws in and out -- mostly out. But then, who...
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Schweighardt era comes to a close -- for nowNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- With the culmination of the Class 7A championship, so ended the Schweighardt Era at Wheaton Warrenville South -- for a generation, at least. Chris Schweigha...
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Even IHSA, Lake Zurich can't spoil DVC's dayNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- So it wasn't the championship bonanza the DuPage Valley Conference expected. It was still pretty cool. Three DVC football teams enjoyed something they'd nev...
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Lake Zurich wraps up 7A titleNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- Lake Zurich had been there, but the Bears hadn't done it. Until Saturday. Returning to the Class 7A state championship football game after falling to St. Ri...
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Brick by brick, Stortz builds a championNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- Leave it to a coach to turn an exercise in team-building into, well, an exercise. When the football players at Lake Zurich were handed bricks this summer an...
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Shields, Grant snip WaucondaNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - Grant trusts Mike Shields with a basketball -- and scissors. That's especially true when it comes to finishing tasks. Shields used fourth-quarter heroics to help Grant r...