There are not many matchups in McHenry County that are non-conference that will get the public’s attention. This week as the 2012 season gets underway, one of those matchups occurs in the McHenry County Game of the Week as the Marian Central Hurricanes host the Crystal Lake South Gators. The Hurricanes went 11-1 last season [...]
TweetThe 2012 season has arrived and the Lake County Game of the Week for Week 1 is the Lakes Eagles hitting the road to face the Grayslake North Knights. Lakes defeated Grayslake North 16-7 in Week 1 last season. The Eagles will be led running back Direll Clark, who was an All-State player in 2011 [...]
TweetThe Cook County Game of the Week as the 2012 season opens is the Palatine Pirates hosting the defending Class 5A state champion Montini Broncos. The two teams played to open the 2011 season as well with the Broncos winning a tight 26-21 affair at home. Palatine would finish last season with a 9-2 record [...]
TweetLike the North Suburban Lake Division, the North Suburban Prairie was bunched up at the top in 2011 with three teams tied at 5-1 in divisional play as the Antioch Sequoits, Grant Bulldogs and Lakes Eagles all tied for the divisional title. Antioch ran through most of their 2011 schedule with a 7-0 record before [...]
TweetThe top of the North Suburban Lake was clustered in 2011 with a three-way tie at the top between the Stevenson Patriots, Lake Zurich Bears and Lake Forest Scouts with each team going 5-1 in divisional play. Stevenson won the tiebreaker to get the automatic playoff berth and finished 9-3 in 2011 with a loss [...]
TweetThe 2011 season in the Mid-Suburban West saw the Palatine Pirates sweep through the division with a 5-0 record en route to a 9-2 record and second round playoff appearance in the Illinois high school playoffs after winning nine straight games to get to the second round. The Pirates return several key players including defensive [...]
TweetAs the 2012 season gets underway this week, the Mid-Suburban East has gone from some major changes at the top with the Elk Grove Grenadiers having coach Brian Doll resign to work in Europe and Texas high school coach Larry Calhoun coming in to take over a 10-2 team from last season. The Wheeling Wildcats [...]
TweetThe Central Suburban South has had one very dominant team over the past number of years in the Maine South Hawks. Maine South went 10-1 last season with an unexpected loss to Stevenson in the second round of the playoffs. The Hawks will have Northwestern recruit Matt Alviti back at quarterback this season for his [...]
TweetThe 2011 season wasn’t kind to the Central Suburban Conference‘s North Division. Just one team made the playoffs: the Deerfield Warriors, who lost their first round game. The division overall was 19-36, so everyone will be looking for improvement in 2012. Deerfield went the division, going undefeated in divisional play, but finished the season 6-4 [...]
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