Girls tennis Crystal Lake Central 6, Dundee-Crown 1: At Carpentersville, Evie Johnson (No. 1), Kaylen Kaczmarek (No. 2) and Ella DeSando (No. 3) all won in straight sets for the Tigers, who improved to 8-0 overall and 3-0 in the Fox Valley Conference. Del... See more
As an opposing coach at Woodstock North, Eric Schulze came away impressed by the big-play ability of outside hitter Dani Hopp. Now her coach at Richmond-Burton, Schulze is seeing firsthand how talented and how big of a ceiling the 6-foot outside hitter tr... See more
An 0-9 start to the season had Crystal Lake Central volleyball coach Amy Johnson second guessing why she front loaded her team’s schedule. “It’s something I’ve never been a part of,” said Johnson, in her sixth season with the Tigers. “At Crystal Lake Cent... See more
Burlington Central looks forward to a challenge. When the Rockets learned they’d be bumped up from Class 3A to 4A this season, fifth-year coach Julia Smagacz embraced it. “We got into a tournament, Week 1, full of 4A schools,” said Smagacz, whose Rockets ... See more
Richmond-Burton’s Hunter Carley wasn’t happy with his first-half performance. The Rockets senior running back/linebacker scored once in the first half, but Carley’s own standards weren’t met. Then, in the third quarter, Carley saw his teammate Blake Livda... See more
