Articles filed under Sports
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St. Edward claims Westminster tourney crownNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - Final game, the crowd roaring, Grossman and Benson taking on Manning. There was a strange sense of deja vu for football fans who attended Friday night's finale of the We...
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Brick by brick, Stortz builds a championNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- Leave it to a coach to turn an exercise in team-building into, well, an exercise. When the football players at Lake Zurich were handed bricks this summer an...
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Shields, Grant snip WaucondaNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - Grant trusts Mike Shields with a basketball -- and scissors. That's especially true when it comes to finishing tasks. Shields used fourth-quarter heroics to help Grant r...
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N. Stars win, Saints fall on final day of SCE tourneyNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - St. Charles East and St. Charles North concluded the 49th annual St. Charles East Thanksgiving tournament with identical 1-3 records, but they got there in opposite fash...
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Defense delivers under pressureNov 24, 2007 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN -- No surprise here. Defense got Lake Zurich to the Class 7A state championship game. And defense got the Bears their first state championship in school histor...
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West Aurora can't stop Conant's 3-point attackNov 23, 2007 10:00 pm - A different player has led the Conant girls basketball team in scoring in their first four undefeated games of the season. On Saturday, Ariana Zades was the Cougars' lea...
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Skiles tries to remain honest, consistentNov 23, 2007 10:00 pm - These are stressful times for the Bulls. Sure, they've started poorly before, but this season they were supposed to be one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference. ...
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Driscoll wins 7th straight state football championshipNov 23, 2007 10:00 pm - CHAMPAIGN - "The best of the best." That may have been rough for Driscoll coach Mike Burzawa to admit since he was a member of the 1991 Highlanders' perfect 14-0 champio...
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Elgin rolls to an easy winNov 23, 2007 10:00 pm - Things are going well when your team scores 30 points in the third quarter. Things are going really well when this gives your team a 30-point lead and everyone gets a ch...
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Thunder advances to title matchNov 23, 2007 10:00 pm - It's a measure of how high the Wheaton College women's soccer team's expectations are that the Thunder can win a national semifinal by 3 goals and be disappointed. Wheat...