Mount Prospect Sports
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Bob Frisk: The Daily Herald's social media before there was social mediaMay 16, 2020 1:00 am - To truly appreciate Bob Frisk and what he meant to high school sports and the Daily Herald, all you had to do was tag along with him to a game. It didn't matter whether ...
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Softball: Grams' 40th season at Elk Grove put on holdMay 15, 2020 1:00 am - Elk Grove's Katia Pendowski couldn't wait for her senior season of softball. A major reason was Ken Grams, whose 948 wins are the most of any active coach in Illinois hi...
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MLB throws curveball to high-school draft prospectsMay 14, 2020 1:00 am - At 6 feet 4 and nearly 225 pounds, with a mid-90-mph fastball and belief that he's professional-baseball ready, Ben Wiegman couldn't wait to unleash his potential this s...
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Final months at the job for Wheeling's May spent at home due to pandemicMay 09, 2020 1:00 am - This would be quite a twist. What are the odds of the person starting a hall of fame ending up in it? That's exactly what appears will happen for Wheeling assistant/prin...
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Bergen's reward was watching students growMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - Tom Bergen has a simple explanation for his 42 years coaching and teaching at Lake Park. "I'm a little traditional," said Bergen, who is retiring from the Roselle high s...
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Water polo: Cancellation of season that had begun a bitter pill to swallowMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - Everybody out of the pool. That was the edict to water polo teams from the Illinois High School Association on March 12, when all spring sports were suspended due to the...
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Girls track and field: Glenbard West's Hart, others miss out on more successMay 08, 2020 1:00 am - It came to this - arguably Illinois' best female high school distance runner ever, running a time trial on a nearly empty track in a wide-open field with no spectators. ...
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Aloha for Ridge: Elk Grove football star Ian Ridge invited to Tiki BowlMay 07, 2020 1:00 am - A trip to Hawaii around the holidays sounds pretty good, and Ian Ridge got his official invitation for beachy, sunshine bliss on Wednesday. Now all he's got to do is hop...
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Success continues for Wheeling grad NowryMay 05, 2020 1:00 am - When he was a fifth grade student at Field Elementary School in Wheeling, Max Nowry's father signed him up for the Wheeling Park District's floor hockey program. When th...
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Top Ten QBs: Jimmy Garoppolo of Rolling Meadows (No. 2)May 05, 2020 1:00 am - Editor's note: The Daily Herald is counting down the Top 10 high school quarterbacks over the past 20 years, two at a time. We continue today with Jimmy Garoppolo of Rol...