Joe Aguilar
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Carmel’s Bitter baffles Mundelein’s hittersMay 26, 2012 9:32 pm - The battle ware or “smear,” as Carmel Catholic pitcher Nicole Bitter calls the black face makeup that she and her softball teammates often rub on, is meant for intimidat...
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McHenry makes it out of Warren regionalMay 26, 2012 5:03 pm - A one-and-done candidate considering it opened the state tournament with Zion-Benton, McHenry’s softball team relies on a one-play-at-a-time approach. At Warren on Satur...
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Prairie Ridge tops VH in a wild one at WaucondaMay 25, 2012 10:35 am - Vernon Hills slugger Jenn Claussen plucked the remaining used paper cups and plastic water bottles from the chain-link fence by her team’s dugout and dropped them in a t...
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Fremd’s Zack-Jack pack sinks LZMay 24, 2012 10:28 am - It’s fact that Zack had Jack’s back. It’s been that way for a long time and vice versa. “My buddy Jack, he’s my best friend,” senior shortstop Zack Kolakowski said of pi...
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Mundelein’s Hemmer hammers awayMay 23, 2012 11:08 pm - Rounding first base hard had become the norm for Alex Hemmer, but this time Mundelein’s softball slugger stood on the bag. Then like all good base runners, she look...
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Super win suits StevensonMay 23, 2012 7:19 pm - Tim Crow’s 5-year-old daughter ran excitedly toward him to give celebratory hugs, or just plain old daddy hugs. Then the 3-year-old son of Stevenson’s boys volleyball co...
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Goshe leaves Grayslake Central in good shapeMay 22, 2012 3:13 pm - Nick Goshe gets a kick out of Grayslake Central soccer. The success of the school’s girls volleyball, boys track and cross country, baseball, boys and girls basketb...
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Healing day for St. Viator’s Hogan, WaucondaMay 21, 2012 2:36 pm - Monday was a day of healing. Physically for St. Viator pitcher Sam Hogan. Mentally for Wauconda’s softball team. Eight days after taking a line drive off her pitchi...
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Lakes’ Blain goes three and out — to KentuckyMay 19, 2012 2:44 pm - The University of Kentucky football roster lists two punters and no player who claims jersey No. 3. Both should get Tanner Blain, whose favorite number is 3 and whose fa...
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Grayslake Central’s Goshe goes to FremdMay 19, 2012 2:31 pm - The man who took Grayslake Central’s football team from 0 wins to back-to-back state playoff appearance, and accomplished what athletic director Tom Kim called a gr...