On the home page, Mother McAuley's 5-11 sophomore Ellie White (far right) is expected to lead the Mighty Macs in a number of categories, including blocking. (Photo by Dave Ruggles. Above photo of Batavia coach McKenna Kelsay courtesy of U. of I. athletic department). Illprepvb.com continues its look at the 2021 season with previews of a team that looks to build on perfection, a downstate school with a new coach after a 22-win campaign in the spring, a perennial state power that finds itself in a new class, and a team that's looking to...
St. Charles East Scholastic Cup at Great Lakes Center
Friday-Saturday, October 8-9 Pairings and brackets for the entire tournament can be found at: https://results.advancedeventsystems.com/event/U2Nob2xhc3RpY19DdXA1/divisions/-51086/overview ...
Thursday, June 3 results
Thursday, June 3 resultsGlenbard East def. Fenton 25-9, 25-14Glenbard East (11-6 overall, 6-1 in the Upstate Eight Conference): Trevor Real (7 kills, 3 digs), Dom O’Brien (5 digs, 1 ace), Griffen Skoumal (3 blocks), Tyler Johnwick (3 kills), Brian Whipple (6 assists), Connor Soto (6 assists).Hinsdale Central def. Downers Grove South 25-13, 20-25, 25-14Hinsdale Central (17-4 overall, 5-1 in the West Suburban Silver): Jakobi Lange (12 kills, 1 ace), AJ Hood (8 kills, 3 digs), Cullen Bradley (6 kills, 1 block).Lake Park def. Stevenson 25-19,...
Unbeaten Rochester gets monkey off back by beating CS8 rival Normal U-High
Rochester's Tori Taylor (3) soared for one of her 11 kills in Thursday's 26-24, 17-25, 25-16 victory at Normal University High. Attempting to block the attack were U-High's Chloe Clayton (7) and Maycie Welborn (19). (Photo by Randy Sharer) By Randy SharerSpecial to Illprepvb.com NORMAL – The unbeaten Rochester volleyball team got a Central State Eight Conference monkey off its back by hitting the targets on the backs of Normal University High’s players on Thursday.“Since U-High joined the conference (in 2017-18), we haven’t beaten t...
Friday, October 8 tournament results
Junior middle hitter Caroline Carens (14) and the Benet Redwings are the top seed at this weekend's St. Charles East Scholastic Cup hosted by the Great Lakes Volleyball Center in Aurora (Photo by Dave Ruggles). Friday, October 8 Tournament results St. Charles East Scholastic Cup (at Great Lakes Volleyball Center) Saturday's pools and brackets More Friday results Minooka def. Prairie Ridge 25-20, 25-22Prairie Ridge (9-13 overall, 6-8 in the Fox Valley Conference): Brianna Scheid (2 blocks, 1 ...
The IHSA announces high school girls volleyball season will begin March 8
The good news? There will be a girls high school volleyball season beginning March 8. The bad news? No state tournament. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) There will be a girls’ high school volleyball season in Illinois this year … albeit a briefer one with no state tournament. And a boys’ high school volleyball season, too. Maybe a state. Maybe not.The IHSA announced Wednesday that Illinois girls high school volleyball will begin on March 8 with seven days of practice. The first contests can begin once a team has met that requirement, and the seaso...
Hinsdale Central stuns St. Francis (again); Marist, L-W East and Lockport move on
Lake Park defeated Buffalo Grove, 25-19, 25-13, on Saturday to advance to Tuesday's finals of the Lake Park Sectional against Glenbard North. At Hinsdale CentralHinsdale Central senior AJ Hood chose an unusual way to prepare for what many assumed would be the final match of his high school career on Saturday.“I was driving around this morning before the match,” Hood said. “I drove around my town and all I could think of was I owe it to this town to make another state run.”Thanks in part to the play of Hood, the fourth-seeded Red Devils rode...
Saturday, April 24 results
Saturday, April 24 resultsGirls volleyballLibertyville def. Vernon Hills 25-19, 25-9Vernon Hills (12-11 overall, 6-4 in the Central Suburban North).Vernon Hills coach Chris Curry: “It was anything but a normal season, but we made it through the delay from fall, a COVID quarantine while we played four varsity matches with only a few varsity players, and only four weeks together with the full varsity and eight practices. Considering all that, we think it was a very successful season. Vernon Hills says ‘Goodbye’ to a group of seven seniors who we...
Plainfield North discovers a diamond in the rough to pair with its perfect gem
Downers Grove South junior middle hitter Allison Bogdanski (11) helped the Mustangs sweep Leyden on Tuesday in Downers Grove. However, the Mustangs fell in straight sets to rival Downers Grove North on Thursday. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) By Matt Le CrenSpecial to Illprepvb.comPlainfield North’s Ella Wrobel is the 24-carat diamond whose brilliance outshines every other player on the court.The 6-foot-4 outside hitter has committed to Wisconsin, so, of course, everybody knows her name.Far fewer people have heard of Wrobel’s teammate, 5-10 junior...
Here are the lastest Michio Chicago VBA/Illprepvb.com girls H.S. rankings
New Trier outside hitter Julia Hall (12) tries to split a pair of Assumption (Louisville, Kentucky) defenders during last weekend's Asics Challenge at Mother McAuley. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) The Asics Challenge has come and gone. Mother McAuley and Marist met for the second time this season, albeit it for third place, not first, and the result was the same, although the rematch was much closer than the teams' first meeting. Not that there wasn’t any interest in an all-Kentucky championship match, but there’s something special about the...