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CRYSTAL LAKE – Thursday’s first game was unpolished and raw, but the third was perfect.
Crystal Lake Central offensive tackle Johnny Laurence has a pretty good idea what the Tigers are up against in Prairie Ridge.
JOHNSBURG – Johnsburg senior Alexa Stroner had to make some adjustments heading into the girls tennis season – the biggest of which was not having her sister, Nicole, on the court with her.
Jacobs at Johnsburg, 7:15 p.m. Friday, video webcast at McHenryCountySports.com
WAUCONDA – So far, Kristian Rockall has had little trouble adjusting as Marian Central’s boys soccer coach.
A Harvard student accused of driving under the influence, hitting a pedestrian and fleeing the scene of a hit-and-run accident last month in Crystal Lake shouldn’t have been starting for the Harvard football team a little more than two weeks later.
WOODSTOCK – Kyle Hagan didn’t like his first goal Wednesday, so the Dundee-Crown junior forward polished his next two.
WEST DUNDEE – Scott Cahill is living up to the hype of trying to repeat as Northwest Herald Golfer of the Year.
WOODSTOCK – Marian Central’s girls volleyball team had gone to the limit in three of its first five matches of the season.
HUNTLEY – The match was rather quiet and businesslike, but Huntley’s volleyball team had things it needed to accomplish Tuesday night.
WOODSTOCK – Mother Nature seems to have it in for McHenry County Cross Country Meets held at Emricson Park.
Everything is good as long as ya don’t ruffle certain feathers.
Jacobs quarterback Jason Judson turned left, saw his pocket collapsing and took off up the middle.
Three Harvard football players have been allowed to compete with the team despite facing charges in connection with a DUI accident in which a pedestrian was hit by a car.
BARRINGTON – The Crystal Lake Central boys golf team has had its eyes on qualifying for the state tournament ever since Grayslake Central edged the Tigers by one stroke in sectionals last year.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS – Alden-Hebron came into Saturday’s season-opening football game against Christian Liberty looking to get a quick start on the year.
NORTHWEST HERALD
FOX LAKE – Friday night’s start was shaky, but once the season-opener jitters wore off, Crystal Lake South’s football team lived up to its preseason billing.
Grayslake North 27, Woodstock North 15
Prairie Ridge 55, Woodstock 0
Here we go!
PLAINFIELD – Crystal Lake South’s girls volleyball team split a pair of matches Friday at the Plainfield North Invitational, losing, 25-21, 25-23, to Rosary in the first match, and defeating Oswego East in the second match, 25-20, 25-12.
ELGIN – Last year’s season-opening loss to Larkin left McHenry one win shy of qualifying for the playoffs.
St. Edward 21, Hampshire 13
Wauconda 44, Huntley 34
Elgin 41, Dundee-Crown 12
Grayslake Central 36, Johnsburg 20
RICHMOND – Talk about hitting the ground running.
Last season’s overall and conference records are in parantheses.
WEST DUNDEE – Jacobs’ Scott Cahill has had no trouble picking up where he left off last year’s Northwest Herald Golfer of the Year campaign.
PRAIRIE GROVE – So far, Prairie Ridge girls golf coach Patti Hie likes what she sees from her Wolves – a team without any seniors.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Prairie Ridge’s powerful kills might as well have been rocks falling from the ceiling.
Cary-Grove took the football field last season with an established team that rocked most of its opponents on the way to winning the IHSA Class 6A state championship.
ALGONQUIN – Crystal Lake Central dominated the singles matches, struggled in doubles, but managed to eke out a 4-3 Fox Valley Conference win against Jacobs in girls tennis Tuesday.
Four years ago, Claire Jakubicek was asked to write down her long-term goals, and the then-fourth grader scrawled “to play Division I basketball” on a sheet of paper.
HARVARD – There’s not much defending that can be done against a goal from 40 yards out.
GENOA – A day after losing its season opener to Dundee-Crown, coach John Gosling and Hampshire’s boys soccer team recovered with a 2-0 Big Northern Conference crossover win against Genoa-Kingston on Tuesday.
CRYSTAL LAKE – Vanderbilt was one of the fervent pursuers of Crystal Lake South offensive lineman Jake Bernstein.
HAMPSHIRE – Dundee-Crown’s boys soccer team has had 12 months to figure out what went wrong last season.
While the season never ends for many local boys soccer players, the high school installment kicks off this week with plenty of storylines.
Fox Valley Conference
HUNTLEY – The Crystal Lake South boys golf team went into Saturday’s Huntley Invitational hoping to improve upon the third-place finish it earned Monday in its season-opening Prairie Ridge Invitational.
One of the state’s strongest volleyball hotbeds is on the cusp of a season that should be equally as successful as 2009.
BYRON – The Johnsburg boys golf team took second place Friday at the four-team Byron Shootout at Prairie View.
Fox Valley Conference
LAKEWOOD – Caelan Murphy and J.B. Garoufalis tied for medalist honors Thursday in Crystal Lake Central’s 157-167 Fox Valley Conference boys golf win against Grayslake Central at Turnberry Country Club.
Carolyn Huerth and Allison Murphy entered the girls tennis season a year ago anticipating their first match as a doubles team for Prairie Ridge.
Taylor Humm wanted more than just volleyball from whatever college she selected to continue her athletic career.
CRYSTAL LAKE – The decision was supposed to be black or white, but Charlie Oliver saw shades of gray.
The Rant has been deep in thought and is tryin’ to figure out which is better in high school football, size or speed?
