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St. Charles North girls basketball coach Colleen Brennan resorted to scrimmaging her players and running timed drills to simulate game situations during practices this week.

As difficult as this may be, as politically incorrect as this thinking may seem, as wild and crazy as this may sound, I’m here to defend Bears’ quarterback Jay Cutler. 

Caitlin Winkelman thinks back and can’t remember the last time she was on a bad soccer team.

Angie Chokran felt sleepy about 7 p.m. on Tuesday evening.

Senior defensive linemen Frank Boenzi of Geneva and Austin Teitsma of Glenbard South shared almost everything but a field this season.

GLEN ELLYN – St. Charles North’s football program needed a game like this.

Pat Greco realizes it might be a while before he cracks the Northwestern wrestling program’s rotation.

Geneva football players galloped up and down a field named for college football legend Red Grange during last week's season-ending playoff loss at Wheaton Warrenville South.

Shawn Sloan understands why first-year NCAA Division I soccer players tend to get caught up in the drastic differences between the high school game and the college game.

High school students are known for giving teachers blank looks when they report for first period – early mornings and teenagers can be an unpleasant combination – so demanding that players report for daily 6 a.m. basketball workouts isn’t going to win St. Charles East boys basketball coach Brian Clodi popularity contests.

Kiley Hackbarth lacked the foresight to consider anything other than an orange sphere with black seams in her first aspirations to play NCAA Division I college basketball.

ST. CHARLES – The St. Charles North defense has given coach Mark Gould plenty of reason to trust it this season.

WHEATON – Geneva placekicker Charlie James darted in jest toward his first crack at the second-half kickoff Friday, flanked by 10 teammates trying to sell an onside kick.

No football team in the area – not Geneva, not Marmion, not anybody – was brimming with more optimism back in mid-September than St. Charles North.

Hours removed from hoisting and posing with her own team’s regional plaque, St. Charles North girls volleyball coach Lindsey Hawkins found herself on the floor for St. Charles East’s celebration on Saturday afternoon.

Today’s regional championship match against rival Rosary should carry enormous emotional impact for the Aurora Central Catholic girls volleyball program.

Change of venue requests are common but not always granted in the justice world.

It’s been almost a week, and that drubbing in Cincinnati is still haunting me. Honestly, I’m shocked and more than a little concerned. 

Prior to joining the Northern Illinois women’s volleyball team, Maddie Hughes bounced between positions for her club and high school teams.

Sammy Scofield doesn’t believe in anything other than full commitment.

Spotting college scouts in the stands during Saturday’s St. Charles East-St. Charles North football game at Norris Stadium proved difficult with all the partisan viewers on hand, but word about seniors from both teams apparently is getting out somehow.

BATAVIA – Through three quarters on Friday, it was tricky to tell which was the 2-6 football team and which was the conference champion-in-waiting, eyeing another serious postseason run.

Geneva senior right guard Justin Craig waxed poetic more than critical when he labeled Burgess Field an “ocean of mud” three weeks ago.

The sky is falling, the sky is falling, the sky is falling!