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Kaitlyn Aylward of Trinity lays in a basket against Homewood-Flossmoor during the McAuley 4A Supersectional.

Trinity’s downstate dream ends in overtime loss to H-F

June 16, 2018 at 6:57 p.m.

Trinity's girls basketball team fell one win short of its goal of reaching the state tournament. In Monday night's Class 4A Mother McAuley Supersectional, Homewood-Flossmoor rallied to stun the Blazers...

Allen Stallings of Oak Park-River Forest prepares for his match against Sanduburg in the 3A championship.

State notebook: OPRF reserves deliver at state meet

June 17, 2018 at 4:18 a.m.

Oak Park-River Forest's second consecutive Class 3A state dual-team wrestling championship took a team effort Saturday. Sophomore Chris Middlebrooks won his first varsity match of the season at 285 pounds...

Oak Park-River Forest head coach Paul Collins shouts out to one of his wrestlers during the championship match with Sandburg.

Change in Oak Park-River Forest coaching staff produces familiar result

June 15, 2018 at 10:57 p.m.

Back in November, first-year Oak Park-River Forest Paul Collins gathered his roster of 26 varsity wrestlers before the season for a series of meetings. Collins' instructed his 13 seniors to...

Members of the Oak Park-River Forest wrestling team celebrate their first-place finish in the 3A state finals in Bloomington.

Back-to-back champions

June 15, 2018 at 11:25 p.m.

Larry Early III may have suffered a heartbreaking loss in the IHSA individual final last weekend, but the Oak Park-River Forest senior still will go out a champion. Early dominated...

Oak Park-River Forest's Kamal Bey pins Evanston's Zack Warhus during the Niles West Sectional.

Cashing in a second chance

June 15, 2018 at 11:02 p.m.

After missing more than a month of the season, Kamal Bey and Adam Lemke-Bell never missed a beat Saturday at the Class 3A state dual-team wrestling meet. Both Oak Park-River...

Hinsdale Central junior Matt Allen intends to become the third Allen brother to play football at Michigan State.

Matt Allen rushes to join his brothers on Michigan State football team

June 15, 2018 at 11:07 p.m.

It didn't take Matt Allen long to decide where he wants to take his football talent. His heart already belonged to Michigan State. Less than two weeks after the Spartans...

Trinity's Annie McKenna dribbles around Hinsdale Central's Gabrielle Rush during the 4A Whitney Young Sectional semifinals.

Gabrielle Rush 3-pointer punctuates Red Devils’ career

June 15, 2018 at 10:20 p.m.

It was appropriate that Hinsdale Central senior Gabrielle Rush ended her basketball career with a successful 3-pointer instead of a missed shot. It could have gone the other way Feb....

OPRF needs for one more win to repeat as state champion

June 16, 2018 at 7:09 p.m.

Oak Park-River Forest's wrestling team used some reserve power to win its semifinal match during the Class 3A dual-team tournament. Four backups went 2-2 in their matches as the defending...

Marmion's Riley DeMoss, right, and Oak Park-River Forest's Maxwell Metzgar compete in the 182-pound match during the 3A quarterfinals.

OPRF wrestlers advance to dual-team final four

June 15, 2018 at 10:39 p.m.

Oak Park-River Forest clinched a fifth state trophy Saturday in the Class 3A quarterfinals of the dual-team wrestling state meet. The defending state champion won the first three matches over...

Patricia Stritzel, 3, joins her Trinity teammates in celebration after defeating Whitney Young in the 4A sectional championship game.

Annie McKenna basket carries Trinity to upset of Young

June 15, 2018 at 11:05 p.m.

As one of Trinity's leading scorers, Annie McKenna learned over the years that shooters need to keep firing away, even when their shots don't fall. McKenna's driving layup Thursday with...

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