Dave Oberhelman
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Meet these area athletes making a differenceApr 20, 2011 12:00 am - This area offers great capacity for relief efforts. We’re not talking the sixth and seventh innings. Community service is rampant among schools and athletic programs, an...
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Fenton brings in Zeman to coordinate offenseApr 20, 2011 12:00 am - Football seven-on-seven drills are a couple months off. Meanwhile, it's fun to speculate how Fenton's offense will look under an imminent partnership of strange bedfello...
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St. Charles East’s Williams, Abel start fastApr 18, 2011 12:00 am - The 400-meter dash is hard enough without worrying about the opposition. Whether by design or by donning mental blinders, St. Charles East’s Brittney Williams didn’t rea...
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Lake Park’s Spejcher thrives with ‘Spalding’Apr 18, 2011 12:00 am - Not all training has to be a drag. Coaches try to make practice fun, at least part of the time. In between coaxing Lake Park junior Kevin Spejcher toward a meet record a...
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Meet records fall to Lake ParkApr 16, 2011 12:00 am - When the snow hit it did little to cool off Jack Driggs. Even having held off Hinsdale Central’s Billy Fayette twice to win the 800-meter run, York’s Driggs still was ti...
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Waubonsie’s Saldana shows character in rainApr 15, 2011 12:00 am - It’s days like Friday that separate the men from the boys. So to speak, for the girls also dealt with rain and wind at the annual Gus Scott Classic coed track invite. Ac...
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Ahern, Theuerkauf leaving their marksApr 14, 2011 12:00 am - Geneva’s Ryan Ahern put his best foot forward to help those in need. Hitting on the idea of a shoe drive in January, the senior hurdler on the Vikings’ boys track team h...
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Neuqua’s Moreau, Soderberg closing in on 300th victoryApr 13, 2011 12:00 am - Neuqua Valley’s girls soccer game Thursday against Larkin? “It’s just another game,” said Wildcats coach Joe Moreau. With apologies to the humble coach, it’s not just an...
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A mega-thrill for Lisle’s JakalskiApr 11, 2011 12:00 am - In an annual meet that goes back 20 years, the Lisle boys track team had never won its own Mega Meet. That is, until Saturday, when the Lions’ 123 points outranked Westm...
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Kaneland’s hurdlers start fastApr 11, 2011 12:00 am - Kaneland’s stable of hurdlers remains intact even after graduating Logan Markuson. Particularly in the 300-meter intermediate hurdles, where this past Saturday one of Ma...