Category: Chicago – Clearing

1. MOUNT CARMEL (10-3) Last week: 7A, Beat St. Rita 43-24 This week: vs. Batavia Comment: Mount Carmel defeated Batavia in the state title game in 2022 and the semifinals last season. Caravan looking for 16th state championship. 2. ST. RITA (10-3) Last week: 7A, Lost to Mount Carmel 43-24 This week: Season over Comment: In nine playoff matchups all-time, […]

Girls Kelly 43, Schurz 40: Amaranth Rincon scored 12 points and Sasha Arriega-Morales added 10 to help the Trojans win their season opener. Morton 36, Reavis 35: The Mustangs edged the Rams in the opener for both teams. Richards 56, Eisenhower 39: Kelly Moore scored 17 points to lead the Bulldogs past the Cardinals in […]

NORMAL — Back on Oct. 8, Marist was soundly defeated by Benet in an East Suburban Catholic Conference girls volleyball matchup. That was then, this was now. The setback fueled the RedHawks for the rest of the season and they never lost again. They showed their resiliency by bouncing back and playing their best volleyball […]

It was quite a week for Lyons senior swimmers Audrey Cavaliere, Lauren Jablonski and Ella Jean Kelly. On Nov. 13, the trio put pen to paper to ink national letters of intent to continue their athletic and academic careers with Cavaliere heading to Illinois, Jablonski to Bowling Green and Kelly to Iowa. Three days later, […]

C.J. Cesario was happily coaching the sophomore football team at Mount Carmel in his first year back in the Chicago area when he had a chance meeting with Chicago Christian Schools superintendent Mark Hamstra. Four deep conversations later, he was Chicago Christian’s new football coach. “I said no three times,” Cesario said of the job […]

Like all quarterbacks, Richards’ Noah Escobedo would like to throw the ball more. But the junior knows that the Bulldogs’ success over the past 50-odd years has been running the ball. So he’s good with handing off to Myles Mitchell, or even going to the sidelines to be replaced by another blocker when Mitchell takes […]