Dave Oberhelman
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Lake Park hoping ‘to hit just right’May 22, 2012 11:35 pm - “We’ve got to hit just right, but it’s possible.” Lake Park track and field coach Jay Ivory’s statement was hard to question. After all Ivory...
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Kaneland looking good this year...and beyondMay 22, 2012 11:35 pm - Eric Bacon didn’t realize it until after his Kaneland boys track team had won its fourth straight sectional title. The Knights had scored in 17 of 18 events at the Class...
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Fortunes change at WW South sectionalMay 18, 2012 8:48 am - Phabian Clark picked himself up. Literally and then figuratively. The first time was not pleasant. The Wheaton Warrenville South senior led his preliminary heat of the 1...
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Panic? No, Conant’s Bowers towersMay 18, 2012 8:48 am - Ben Bowers felt no panic after twice failing to clear a height well below his ability. Missing 6-foot-3 on his first two attempts Friday at the Class 3A Wheaton Warrenvi...
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Naperville Central changes its fortunesMay 17, 2012 10:02 pm - Naperville Central’s Tyler Haines did high jump and hurdles as a sophomore. Last year he didn’t even run track. On Thursday night at the Class 3A Naperville N...
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Work on Geneva's new FieldTurf begins MondayMay 17, 2012 10:00 am - Here's to no more mud in your eye. Capping a process more than a year in the making, on Monday work commences to renovate Geneva High School's Burgess Field. Reconstruct...
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Track teams looking for correct answersMay 16, 2012 8:54 pm - Boys track and field teams will be answering all sorts of questions in sectional meets this Thursday and Friday. Unless the answers are positive, athletes miss a trip to...
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From Addison Trail to New Mexico to DetroitMay 16, 2012 8:56 am - Retired Addison Trail football coach and teacher Paul Parpet knows Carmen Messina as well as anyone. Parpet can take pride that Messina, a 2007 Blazers graduate who went...
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Lake Park on track for titleMay 10, 2012 2:44 pm - Eighty-nine field event points for Lake Park’s boys track team is not a surprise. The defending Upstate Eight Conference Valley Division champion needed contributio...
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Geneva volleyball makes quick climb; Coffey enjoys big season in returnMay 10, 2012 2:29 pm - They’re one of the boys, now. Geneva’s boys volleyball team has rounded into form in its second season as a varsity program. After understandably struggling in 2011 to a...