Bill Jauss

Jeromy Burnitz's 10th-inning RBI single broke up a 5-5 tie and the Milwaukee Brewers added two insurance runs to deal the White Sox their sixth straight loss, 8-5 Monday night...

It was a year worth remembering--and repeating. In fact, many Chicago-area teams did repeat their feats of the 1995-96 season by defending state championships. The year in review, sport by...

Pitcher/slugger Mark Floersch and No. 1-ranked New Trier delivered an eyeful Tuesday to Stevenson scouts who turned up to examine the team the Patriots will play Saturday in a sectional...

Wednesday, said Andrew coach Frank Ganser, "was a day when pitchers just love to pitch." A stiff wind of 15-20 m.p.h. blew in from the outfield to home plate. Sophomore...

Taft, Chicagoland's only unbeaten high school baseball team, improved its record to 22-0 Tuesday by routing visiting Roosevelt 16-6 in six innings. Yet the Eagles still can't get much respect....

Victor Diaz, a 15-year-old freshman shortstop, had just led Clemente (19-10, 9-1) to a 17-9 Public League North victory over archrival Lane Tech (18-7, 7-2) Monday. The 5-foot-10, 175-pound rookie...

Bill Callo, Frankie Pretzel and Wally Seliga capped a worst-to-first career Wednesday night by rewriting Lincoln-Way's gymnastics record book. The Knights, in winning their own sectional with a score of...

Oak Forest's game Tuesday at Thornton Fractional South started 45 minutes late because the bus carrying the Bengals was snarled in traffic. Bengal hitters got off to a slow start...

Lockport's Jeff Blaesing hurt Sandburg with his bat Tuesday as the third-ranked Porters defeated Sandburg 7-1 in Lockport. And if the 10th-ranked Eagles (12-6, 0-1) thought they had it tough...

Loyola's Scott Szafraniec and St. Rita's J.J. Standring, both kickers for their football teams in the fall, hooked up Wednesday in a terrific pitchers' duel in snowy football-type weather. Loyola...