Sunday, April 22, 2012
See who won the Athlete of the Week this time around.
With six votes in the comments section, New Trier's Maddie Mulford won Athlete of the Week. Mulford scored the only goal in New Trier’s 1-0 victory over Jacobs in the Sweet 16 of the Pepsi Showdown on Thursday. Mulford received a pass from Rachel Shellenback and slipped it past the keeper off the right post for the game-winner early in the second half. HONORABLE MENTION April Cronin, junior, girls soccer, Glenbrook South – Cronin scored two of Glenbrook South’s four goals in a 4-0 victory over Oswego in the Pepsi Showdown. The Titans haven’t had much offense this season, but moved to 5-3-4 on the season with the win. Mike Virgilio, junior, baseball, Maine South – Virgilio threw a complete game for Maine South in the Hawks’ 8-2 victory over…
Monday, March 19, 2012
The nominees for this week's Athlete of the Week are: Evanston's Xavier Levy, Glenbrook South's Tom Meyer, Glenbrook North's Jenny McTague, New Trier's Jess Weaver and Maine East's Tyler Glowacki.
Editor’s note: Patch will be trying a new method for voting our Athlete of the Week. We’re asking readers to post their vote in the comments section. In last week's poll Niles West's Casey Mahoney-Muno and Evanston's Josh Irving were named Co-Athlete of the Week. The nominees for Patch Athlete of the Week, March 12 – March 18: Tyler Glowacki, senior, baseball, Maine East – Glowacki helped lead an offensive barrage for the Blue Demons, going 4 for 4 at the plate with 2 RBIs in Maine East’s 20-5 win over Luther North to open their season. Glowacki also pitched three innings and Maine East won the second game of the double header,12-3. Jess Weaver, junior, girls soccer, New Trier – Weaver had a goal in New Trier’s win over Stevenson and then …
Monday, July 25, 2011
Players compete at Brickyards Park every Wednesday.
It's not always easy to find enough people to put together a competetive soccer match, but John Fillman is doing his best to change that in the north Chicago suburbs. Through the use of a social networking website meetup.com Fillman has managed to recruit over 120 local players to join the North Shore Soccer Club. "There's a lot of really good, well organized, sponsored organizations that pick up soccer in Chicago and in the northwest suburbs," Fillman said. "But up North there wasn't really anything except formal leagues. So we decided this would be a great opportunity for us to all expand. It's doing great and I just want to keep it going." The club puts together teams for indoor leagues in the winter and also hosts activities in areas …
Betty Wines
6:46 am on Tuesday, April 3, 2012
I vote for Bradley Margolin more ›