Aaron Nagel was a linebacker at Notre Dame, one of college football’s Holy Grails, but he wasn’t happy. The Lemont graduate did not like the Fighting Irish’s coaches. They weren’t the kind of people he thought they would be back when he committed to play football there. He wanted something different. That’s when he rediscovered his youth.

Due to field conditions, Saturday's Class 3A Hinsdale Central soccer sectional final has been moved to Naperville North High School.

In looking at the Lyons Township boys soccer team’s record this season, one could expect the Lions to be the team to beat in the Class 3A Hinsdale Central sectional.

Riverside Brookfield boys soccer coach Danny Makaric watched as his team set out to make school history Saturday in the Riverside regional championship.

Then he watched as his players almost let it slip away.

Another complete team effort lifted Hinsdale Central’s girls tennis team to its fourth consecutive IHSA state title.

In a game as fast-paced as volleyball, a team’s setter needs to be able to make split-second decisions and act on them just as quickly. A setter is a team’s quarterback on the court, a fact not lost on area high school players and coaches.

Brian Langford has never met Mark McDonagh, but he knows exactly what the Riverside Brookfield senior receiver is going through emotionally right now.

After all, it was Langford’s national high school record of 138 catches in a season that McDonagh broke in a 42-0 victory over Elmwood Park on Friday.

Mark McDonagh wanted to have the best season he could this year, but not even he expected to be putting up numbers like this. Through eight games, the RB senior has 143 catches, more than any other player in U.S. high school football history.

The Lyons Township boys golf team earned sixth place at the Class 3A state tournament at The Den at Fox Creek Golf Course in Bloomington on Saturday.
 

Lyons Township sophomore Katie Ellis finished 69th overall Saturday at the Class 3A state tournament at Hickory Ridge Golf Course in Carbondale.
 

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Wheaton Academy's David Flynn will be leading his team into the Class 2A state tournament this weekend at the Den at Fox Creek Golf Course in Bloomington.

A serious knee injury forced Lyons Township senior Kevin Workman to miss last week’s Class 3A St. Ignatius regional, a tournament LT went on to win by two strokes over Fenwick.

But on Monday afternoon at the Mount Carmel sectional at Glenwoodie Golf Course, there Workman was — knee brace and all — ready to help the Lions earn a trip to the Class 3A state tournament.

There was a point during the La Grange Park Girls Golf Regional on Oct. 7 where Katie Ellis could have imploded.