Lady RedHawks stay busy on Florida trip While softball fields around the area were unplayable last week due to the lingering effects of a brutal winter, Marist was unaffected.That’s because the Lady R…
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Trinity sports report
The long, cold wait for spring There is something numbing about the thump of a ball into a glove and the crack of a bat when heard in a gymnasium.It sounds out of place and artificial.That sound has b…
Moraine athletics wrap
Spring teams ready to get started While every Moraine Valley College athlete anxiously awaits a shift away from cold weather, one Cyclones spring sports team must also deal with a change in leadership…
SXU sports summary
Basketball players gain postseason honors Some good deeds do get rewarded.While the 2013-14 men’s and women’s basketball campaigns didn’t feature the kind of postseason success that was hoped for, som…
Community sports news
St. Laurence looking for new basketball coach St. Laurence is seeking a new varsity basketball coach after previous coach Mark Sevedge was not retained.Sevedge, who recently completed his fifth season…
Sports wrap
As impressive as Sandburg’s boys’ water polo team was last week — it opened the 2014 season with three victories and scored a total of 45 goals in those matches — Eagles coach Jim Caliendo was most sa…
Marist alums in latest ESCC Hall of Fame class
Submitted photo. The Worth Warriors recently completed an unbeaten basketball season.Marist alumni Gary Kostrubala and Tony Evensen will be among the 12 newest inductees into the East Suburban Catholi…
Trolls’ bats lead the way
Trinity sports report Trinity Christian College baseball coach Justin Huisman said it best. “It was fun to be outside,” he said of last week’s trip to Florida. The Trolls took advantage of the great o…
‘V’ means more than ‘victory’ during March Madness
BARTOSH (Reprinted from March 17, 2011) In the 1940s, making the “V” sign with one’s index and middle fingers meant victory, as in the winning of World War II. In the 1960s, longhaired hippies flashed…
National knockouts administered to Cougars
SXU sports summary While there was room for St. Xavier University in both the men’s and women’s NAIA Division II basketball tournaments, neither Cougars squad will need to free up additional space in …