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Baseball: West Aurora upsets Waubonsie Valley

West Aurora jumped out to an early lead and held off Waubonsie Valley’s comeback attempt in a 5-4 quarterfinal victory at the Class 4A Waubonsie Valley Regional.

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Baseball: Shane Brown lifts Simeon to first Public League title since ‘04

Shane Brown pitched a three-hitter with 13 strikeouts and doubled in a run to lead Simeon to a 2-1 victory over Lane in the Public Read More

Disabato: St Laurence-St Rita baseball incident embarrassing moment for high school sports

Boys Volleyball: Willowbrook edges Hinsdale South in three sets

Baseball: Dundee-Crown runs past Rockford Jefferson

Monday’s baseball roundup

This week's results

Monday’s results Updated: May 21, 2012
Saturday’s results Updated: May 19, 2012
Friday’s results Updated: May 18, 2012

Boys Volleyball: West Aurora cruises past St. Joseph

Eric Roggeman led West Aurora with nine kills, while middle hitter Joe Frommert and outside hitter David Vasquez each added five as the Blackhawks beat St. Joseph 25-6, 25-16 in their opening game at the West Aurora Regional.

Boys Volleyball: Oswego knocks out rival Oswego East

Oswego topped Oswego East for the third time this season, 25-14, 25-20 in an opening round game at the West Aurora Regional.

Softball: Oswego East rallies past West Aurora

Lindsey Anderson’s sacrifice fly plated Molly Talaska with the winning run as Oswego East scored two runs in the seventh inning to down West Aurora 6-5 at the Class 4A Plainfield South Regional.

Softball: Rosary’s bats heat up in regional opener

Cara Smoczynski had four hits and Lauren Murray launched a home run to lead Rosary to a 12-5 win over IMSA in the opening game of the Class 3A IMSA Regional.

Boys Volleyball: Balanced Metea downs Hinsdale Central

Nick Wieland had seven kills and Shiv Desai added six as Metea Valley defeated Hinsdale Central 25-13, 25-17 at the Hinsdale Central Regional.

Boys Volleyball: Lyons overmatches IMSA

Lyons coasted to an easy 25-11, 25-7 win over IMSA in the opening round of the Hinsdale Central Regional.

May 21: Area Roundup

Scores and highlights from around the Fox Valley.

Baseball: No. 1 Geneva enters postseason on a roll

Geneva enters Class 4A regional play this week as the number one sectional seed for the first time ever. The Vikings open against the winner of Monday’s game between 16th-seeded Bartlett and number 17 seed Streamwood on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. in the Class 4A Lake Park Regional.

Softball: Injury concerns Waubonsie as postseason opens

Waubonsie Valley’s hard-hitting shortstop Amanda Minahan will be missing when the Warriors open play this week in the Class 4A regionals. Minahan took a pitch off the elbow over the weekend and coach Aly Kelley said although there are no fractures, she is in pain. The fifth-seeded Warriors open Wednesday at the Metea Valley Regional against the host Mustangs.

Oswego AD McInerney leaving for new post at Sandburg

During Steve McInerney’s six-year tenure at Oswego High, the Panthers won 20 conference championships, eight sectional championships, eight regional championships and two supersectional titles and most importantly, three state trophies. McInerney’s resignation as Oswego’s athletic director is expected to be approved Monday. He is moving on to Sandburg to become its new physical education, health and driver’s education department chair.

Girls Track: Akinosun, Michalek win state titles

Waubonsie Valley senior Morolake Akinosun cast away her state demons by winning the Class 3A 100 meters in a record-tying 11.41 seconds. Oswego East senior Ariel Michalek ran 4:53.37 to claim the title in the 1,600 meters.

Girls Track: Pulled hamstring ends Bollinger’s day

When junior sprinter Mackenzie Bollinger went down in a heap just a few strides into the start of the 100-meter dash Saturday at the 40th annual Girls State Track Meet, so did Aurora Christian’s chances of finishing among the top 10 teams in Class 2A.