High school and local college results and highlights from the area.
Category: High School Sports
Rick Armstrong’s Aurora-Elgin area softball rankings and player of the week
With a logjam at the top, West Aurora and Bartlett enter area rankings.
West Aurora’s Keira Hayton wasn’t slaphappy. She had a concussion. But a year later? ‘She flies under the radar.’
In her third varsity season, Keira Hayton has been dominant this spring for the Blackhawks.
Paul Johnson’s Aurora-Elgin area baseball rankings and player of the week
Geneva, St. Charles East, Burlington Central and Bartlett on upswing in area rankings.
Bishop Noll’s Gavin Knight is ‘the life of the team.’ Which one? It doesn’t matter. He doesn’t slow down.
Knight knows one speed. It doesn’t matter whether he’s playing football, basketball or baseball.
Steve Millar’s Daily Southtown baseball rankings and player of the week
St. Laurence, Sandburg and St. Rita move up, while Reavis and Lincoln-Way East enter the rankings.
Running the bases, Lincoln-Way East’s MJ Schley never sees red or even yellow. ‘I always have the green light.’
MJ Schley stole five bases and scored four times as the Griffins topped Lockport.
Where there’s Will Richards, there’s a way. Naperville North senior finds it. ‘My parents taught me resiliency.’
Richards got fewer than 10 at-bats last season. But he believed in himself.
Tony Baranek’s Daily Southtown softball rankings and player of the week
Lincoln-Way Central takes over the top spot in the rankings from Marist.
Unfazed by wearing No. 13, Kelcie McGraw helps Lockport turn the screws on Sandburg. ‘It’s a nasty pitch.’
Kelcie McGraw strikes out the first seven batters as Lockport beats Sandburg.