Wednesday, May 1 Results No. 12 Barrington def. Fremd 25-19, 25-23Barrington (19-7 overall, 8-1 in the Mid-Suburban West): Ben Ridgway (10 kills, 1 block), Ved Anand (8 kills), Gabe Hartke (6 kills, 6 digs), Ricky Gibson (5 kills), Kyle Vasquez (29 assists, 1 ace, 4 digs), Luke Kolder (1 ace), Chris Babicz (7 digs).Holy Trinity def. Hope Academy 25-14, 25-20Holy Trinity (6-5 overall, 5-3 in the Chicago Prep): Thomas Cheng (9 kills), Jalen Gomez (5 kills), Jonathan Vega (13 assists, 10 service points, 3 aces), Minh Nguyen (5 serve points...
Downers Grove South seeks Freshman B girls teams for tournament
Downers Grove South seeks Freshman B girls teams (or very low level Freshman A teams) for a tournament or quad for the 2019 season. Tentative dates are September 7, October 5, 12 or 19. Please contact Downers Grove South head volleyball coach Kristi Conrad at kconrad@csd99.org or (630) 795-8816 by Friday, May 10, to indicate interest. ...
Friday, May 31 Quarterfinal Results
Friday, May 31 Quarterfinal Results New Trier def. St. Rita 25-22, 23-25, 25-21New Trier (31-7): Zachary Salberg (3 kills, 31 assists, 5 digs), Colin Heath (10 kills, 1 ace, 8 digs, 1 block), Connor Pochetti (6 kills, 2 aces, 6 digs, 3 blocks), Peter Brown (14 kills, 1 ace, 6 digs, 2 blocks), Eli Lieberman (3 kills, 1 dig, 2 blocks), Emmett Burnside (2 kills, 2 blocks), Aidan Rico (1 ace), Aaron Schatz (3 assists, 9 digs), Jay Saravis (2 digs). St. Rita (28-12): Quinn Coghlan (10 kills, 2 assists, 5 digs), Joe Horn 3 kills, 32 assists...
Sterling repeats as Class 3A champion; Nazareth downs U-High for third place
Joliet Catholic's Bella Ray (14) tries to hit through the block of Sterling's Brooklyn Borum (10) and Kierra Collins (15). Photo by Dave Ruggles) By Randy WhalenSpecial to Illprepvb.com NORMAL – Sterling believed all season. Now the Golden Warriors are back-to-back IHSA Class 3A champions. Brooklyn Borum bashed 16 kills, and what Grace Egan imagined came through as the freshman outside hitter added 11 kills and 5 digs, as Sterling stopped Joliet Catholic with a 25-16, 25-19 victory Saturday in the Class 3A championship match at R...
Wednesday, November 6 results
Wednesday, November 6 results At Back of the YardsDe La Salle def. Richards 25-16, 25-15De La Salle (31-6 overall): Nyiah Penny (10 kills, 2 blocks), Francesca Bertucci (8 digs, 2 aces). At BolingbrookBenet def. Waubonsie Valley 25-19, 25-17Benet Academy (38-1 overall, 6-1 East Suburban Catholic Conference) Rachael Muisenga (2 kills, 30 assists, 2 digs) Sophie Gregus (7 kills), Maeve Nelligan (2 kills, 5 blocks), Colleen McGuire (5 kills, 1 block), Kayla Kenney (9 kills, 2 digs), Ann Marie Remmes (5 kills, 4 blocks, 1 dig), Hattie Monson (...
Wednesday, September 11 results
Wednesday, September 11 resultsAndrew def. Richards 25-16, 25-14 Richards (5-3 overall, 2-0 in the South Suburban): Aleksa Curta (1 kill, 9 assists, 1 dig), Sam Mayo (6 kills, 4 blocks), Kerri Olson (3 kills, 5 blocks), Jenna Weiland (2 assists, 3 digs). No. 3 (4A) Belleville Althoff def. Belleville East 25-20, 25-22No. 2 (4A) Benet Academy def. St. Charles East 25-11, 25-16Benet Academy (9-0 overall, 1-0 East Suburban Catholic): Rachel Muisenga (4 kills, 27 assists, 1 block), Sophie Gregus (8 kills, 1 block), Kyla Kenney (4 kills, 1 dig, 1...
Autumnfest at Glenbard East
Friday-Saturday, October 18-19 ...
Fall Harvest Festival, Autumnfest will test Michio Chicago/Illprepvb.com’s best
Six-foot-2 junior middle hitter Storm Suhre (17) and Edwardsville went 3-2 at last weekend's Scholastic Cup tournament hosted by St. Charles East at the Great Lakes Volleyball Center in Aurora. (Photos by Dave Ruggles) Class 4A powerhouses Benet and Marist headline the two major tournaments in the Chicago area this weekend. Marist (25-2) is the top seed at the 30-team Fall Harvest Festival sponsored by Illprepvb.com at Plainfield Central beginning Friday with pool play at Plainfield North and the host school. Plainfield North is the No...
Final 2019 1st Alliance Volleyball Club/Illprepvb.com Boys High School Rankings
Photos by Dave Ruggles. Rankings.Part performance. Part guess-work.Eighteen of the final 25 teams ranked at the end of the 2019 season were ranked in the preseason. Some teams that had not been ranked all season or had been in and out of the rankings broke into the final top 25. So here are they are, the final 2019 1st Alliance Volleyball Club/Illprepvb.com Top 25 Illinois boys’ volleyball teams. Let the discussion begin.(preseason ranking in parentheses) 1. Marist 40-2 (8)Defeated Glenbard West, 25-21, 25-23, in the IHSA championship m...
Going out on a limb (without a net) and picking the 16 supersectional winners
Orion has dropped only four sets all season, but the Chargers will have their hands full when they face Decatur St. Teresa Friday at Farmington. Some surprising names are among the teams that will be watching from the stands Friday when supersectional play begins, including Quincy Notre Dame, Montini, Belleville Althoff and Crystal Lake Central.A few more could join them after Friday.Our former mentor at the Daily Herald – the venerable Bob Frisk – picked each quarterfinal, semifinal and championship game of the boys’ state basketball tourn...