Articles filed under Sports
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Highlanders take their best shotsOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Before its first round matchup Saturday against Bishop McNamara, Driscoll's football team had never in 33 years squared off against a Chicago Catholic League opponent. T...
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Giesler delivers big blowOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - At 6-foot-2, Gretchen Giesler can be an intimidating force to be reckoned with on the volleyball court. The St. Charles North senior middle hitter put together one of he...
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Wildcats' bowl hopes in jeopardy after fourth-quarter collapseOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Throughout a wildly inconsistent season, Northwestern's identity has yet to come into focus. It began to take shape the last three weeks, as the ...
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Geneva in league of its ownOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Days before the Class 3A girls cross country sectional at Schaumburg's Busse Woods, Geneva coach Bob Thomson said his girls had yet to run their best race of the season....
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Grant puts finishing touches on SimeonOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - About 650 gallons of paint and a lot of elbow grease went into dressing up Grant's field for the playoffs. The school's maintenance staff, led by Lee Pearce and Curt She...
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Rams can't overcome St. Charles E.Oct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Regional volleyball finals tend to be tight contests where each vital point can be difficult to come by. St. Charles East expected that from its championship match again...
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Defense keys Naperville Central to regional winOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Defensive specialists like Naperville Central's Jill Fields don't typically draw a crowd of reporters after a match. It's the heavy hitters at the net who put away the k...
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Geneva drops heartbreakerOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - It was not the way Jenny Pokorny and her Geneva volleyball teammates envisioned their season ending. But what York lacked in convention was surely compensated in executi...
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Boston's Bergeron injured in Philadelphia's 2-1 win over BruinsOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - Martin Biron stopped 38 shots and Mike Richards had a short-handed goal to lift Philadelphia to a 2-1 win over host Boston on Saturday in a game marred by Flyers defense...
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Matsuzaka and Red Sox beat Rockies 10-5 to take 3-0 World Series lOct 27, 2007 11:00 pm - DENVER -- Mile high or sea level, nothing is stopping the Boston Red Sox. Even when the Rockies rallied late, their chance to get back into the World Series vanished int...