Girls Soccer: Hinsdale Central Tops Lyons for Sectional Championship

The Red Devils' Casey May opened the game with two quick goals to lead Central past rival LT 3-1 in the sectional title game Friday night.

Casey May scored a goal 38 seconds into Hinsdale Central's match against Lyons Township in the sectional championship Friday night and added another early on to lead the Red Devils to a 3-1 win against its rival.  We talked about, from the beginning of the match, that we had to impose our style on them," Hinsdale Central coach Michael Smith said. "We wanted to play with agressiveness. It gave us a great cushion." Central (16-3-3) will face Sandburg at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Lewis University supersectional in Romeoville. LT finished the season 16-5-2. The Red Devils controlled the pace for much of the first half, but Lyons' Catherine King nailed a beautiful kick.  "That's a world-class kick," Smith said. "Amazing shot," Lyons coach Bill …

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State Tennis Tournament: So Far, So Good for Hinsdale Central

Singles players Martin Joyce and Michael Lorenzini, and the doubles tandems of Alex Hagermoser and Peter Heneghan, and Eddie Grabill and Harold Martin all went undefeated Thursday.

Hinsdale South Pitcher Goes Distance in Win Over Central

A four-run third inning put the Hornets ahead, but they needed a strong finish to hold off the Red Devils.

The score: Hinsdale South 5, Hinsdale Central 4 The way it happened: Senior outfielder Matt Reschke keyed the Hinsdale South offense with a three-run triple in the third inning and senior Mike Rizzo pitched a complete game during the Hornets' home win Tuesday over the Red Devils. Central jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI single by junior Matt Muellner, but South rallied with a four-run third that saw Red Devils senior pitcher Basil Arain give up two singles, hit a batter, and walk in a run before Reschke's triple cleared the bases.  Rizzo gave up three runs in the fifth inning before retiring the Red Devils in order in both the sixth and seventh. The play: With one out and nobody in the top of the sixth inning, junior …

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Win Free Tickets to DuPage County Hounds Baseball Game at Benedictine!

One hundred lucky winners will receive tickets to any DuPage County Hounds baseball game this summer. Just sign up for our free daily newsletter and you'll be entered into the drawing.

Summer is well on its way to the western suburbs, and with that comes baseball season.  Patch is partnering with the DuPage County Hounds to offer 100 lucky readers a pair of tickets to any one of their baseball games this summer, played at Benedictine University's Sports Complex.  We want to send you to a game for free. All you have to do is sign up for our free daily newsletter.  The deadline to enter is noon Friday, May 31, the day of the Hounds' home opener, when we'll draw 100 names and contact the lucky winners by email. Good luck to all of our new newsletter subscribers, and don't forget to tell your friends! OK, now for the rules:

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LT Baseball Tops Hinsdale Central on Walk-off Hit (Photos)

Only one run was scored through five innings, but LT came back from a 4-1 hole to win 5-4 on a walk-off hit by Sam Cybulski.

It was a pitchers' duel between rivals Lyons Township and Hinsdale Central through five innings Monday, but offensive attacks by both teams down the stretch led to an exciting 5-4 LT win. Lyons pitcher Alex Vannucci was impressive through five innings, allowing seven hits but striking out five Central batters, including Matt Muellner to escape a bases-loaded jam in the fifth inning.  But the wheels came off in the sixth inning when Vannucci surrendered five straight hits, including three doubles and a triple, to put LT in a 4-1 hole.  The Lions tied the game in the bottom half of the inning. They loaded the bases with three straight singles, including a bunt by Tom Prescott that resulted in a miscommunication about where to throw. Jim …

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UWGB Coach Wardle, Hinsdale Central Grad, Accused of Mistreating Player

According to a now-public complaint, the coach once forced a sick player to work out until he lost control of his bowels, then openly mocked him for it, as well as for his religion.

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay coach Brian Wardle, a graduate of Hinsdale Central High School, is facing an investigation after a former player filed a complaint accusing him of repeated mistreatment and abuse, the details of which went public on Monday, USA Today reports. According to the paper, 7'1" walk-on Ryan Bross claims that Coach Wardle regularly harangued him with homophobic and sexually derogatory language, mocked his religious commitment to chastity by telling him he’d play better if he had sex with a girl, and once ignored Bross’ professed physical illness, instead forcing the player to run hills until he lost control of his bowels into his shorts. “[Then] Wardle told me I was a piece of [expletive] and that he had never …

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Hinsdale Central Tight End Ian Bunting Commits to Michigan

The 6-foot-6 junior chose Ann Arbor in part because of a recently deceased family member's hope that he would be a Wolverine.

Hinsdale Central tight end Ian Bunting has committed to play his college ball at the University of Michigan after he graduates next year, the Chicago Tribune reports.  The 6-foot-6, 215-pound Hinsdale resident had scholarship offers from big-program schools including Notre Dame and USC, according to SB Nation. Bunting told the Tribune that he chose Michigan in part because his recently-deceased grandmother was a Wolverine and was hoping he'd have the opportunity to play in Ann Arbor. See the full Chicago Tribune story here. "Has a nice, long frame with a lot of room to add weight," a Scouts.com scouting report of Bunting by Allen Trieu reads. "Good, reliable hands and shows ability to make grabs in traffic and along the sideline. Adjusts …

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Sunday Comic: Obama Sees Rough Months Ahead

What is it that has the president so pessimistic as spring unfolds? Oh ... that.

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