Dave Oberhelman
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DVC baseball teams joining fight against ALSApr 27, 2011 12:00 am - The connection between baseball and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis was made way back in the 1930s. That, of course, was when New York Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig contract...
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West Aurora girls, boys both enjoying impressive springsApr 27, 2011 12:00 am - West Aurora’s girls track team will conduct defense of its Kane County crown after a dominant effort at the 16-team Lockport Invitational last Thursday. Runner-up Homewo...
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Gaspari reflects on Hall of Fame honorApr 27, 2011 12:00 am - From humble beginnings came a hall of fame career. Batavia’s retiring football coach and athletic director, Mike Gaspari, needs no reminder. Still, he was thrilled to h...
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So far, Willowbrook’s Porter has no peerApr 25, 2011 12:00 am - Chemise Porter was not to be denied last Saturday at Glenbard West. The Willowbrook junior has only been defeated one time at 200 meters the last two years, in the Class...
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West Aurora takes regains from KanelandApr 23, 2011 12:00 am - It would be hard to believe that in the 42 years of Kaneland’s Peterson Prep boys track invite wind has not been a factor. For a 400-meter runner like Wheaton Academy fr...
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Glenbard West's Lederhouse lopes to 3,200 titleApr 21, 2011 12:00 am - Mike Lederhouse looked like he had a lot left even as he won the 3,200-meter run. The Glenbard West junior, a recent advocate of weight training that gained confidence a...
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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...