Winter season grind begins
Hari Rao, Contributor
December 17, 2018
Filed under Cross Country, Fall, Sports
It’s winter: a cool breeze slaps their faces as they bounce off the hard concrete of the street, because the sidewalks and grass are blanketed in snow. Red and black drapes all over them; a red headband with a breathable red shirt, slick black pants, and skin-tight socks going into mud-covered, ter...
Tennis Team’s leading light
Kendall Butler, Contributor
December 17, 2018
Filed under Fall, Features, Girls' Tennis, Sports
The lime green, soft, yet bouncy, tennis ball gets squished in between a multi-colored racquet and a spotless white tennis shoe. For a split second the ball got pulled up, still in between her shoe and the racquet, the racquet hits the ball lightly to be caught in the hands of Caroline Kotarski to s...
Girls swim and dive place 16th at State
Rachel Wagner, Lia Reichmann, Leah Stevens, Section Editor, Kabir Sawlani, Editor-in-Chief, and Abby Stockmal, Editor-in-Chief
November 20, 2018
Filed under Fall, Girls' Swimming, Sports, Top Stories
The Varsity Swim Team placed 16th out of approximately 100 teams in the IHSA Girls State Swimming and Diving Championship from Friday, Nov. 16 through Saturday, Nov. 17 at Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Ill. On Friday, the girls competed in the preliminary rounds of the competition wit...
Review of the 2018 football season
Rachel Wagner, Leah Stevens, Section Editor, Kabir Sawlani, Editor-in-Chief, and Abby Stockmal, Editor-in-Chief
November 19, 2018
Filed under Columns, Fall, Football, Opinion, Sports, Sports Central, Top Stories
Looking back at the 2018 football season, the football team fought hard throughout its entire season. The team battled fiercely as a unit from the opening kickoff of the season against Naperville Central until the final seconds of the playoff game against Warren. The team won eight games, shar...
Boys cross country travels to Indiana for Nike regionals meet
Brandon Belgrad, Kabir Sawlani, Editor-in-Chief, and Abby Stockmal, Editor-in-Chief
November 12, 2018
Filed under Cross Country, Fall, Sports, Top Stories
On Sunday, Nov. 11, the boys cross country team traveled to Terre Haute, Ind. to compete in the annual Nike Regionals meet. The varsity team placed ninth, while the junior varsity finished in 11th. Nike Regionals is a race with teams from all over the midwest, all competing for a nationals spot. T...
Red Devils lose football playoffs to Blue Devils
Rachel Wagner, Leah Stevens, Section Editor, Kabir Sawlani, Editor-in-Chief, and Abby Stockmal, Editor-in-Chief
November 7, 2018
Filed under Fall, Football, Sports, Top Stories
The Varsity Football Team (8-2) traveled to Gurnee, Ill. to take on the Warren High School Blue Devils (9-1) on Saturday, Nov. 3. The game was the second round of the IHSA 8A Playoffs, and the Red Devils lost 17-14. Warren's featured back, Martin Walker Jr., carried their team with more than 1200...
Boys and Girls cross country place 11th and 17th at state
Brandon Belgrad, Kabir Sawlani, Editor-in-Chief, and Abby Stockmal, Editor-in-Chief
November 5, 2018
Filed under Cross Country, Sports, Top Stories
On Saturday, Nov. 3, both boys and girls cross country competed in the state meet. The meet took place at Detweiller Park in Peoria, and the boys finished 11th while the girls placed 17th. The top performance on the boy’s team came from Matt Kusak, senior, who finished 32nd. The rest of the varsi...
Football Teams moves onto second round of playoffs
Lia Reichmann, Leah Stevens, Section Editor, Kabir Sawlani, Editor-in-Chief, and Abby Stockmal, Editor-in-Chief
October 31, 2018
Filed under Fall, Football, Sports
On Saturday, Oct. 27 at 1:00 p.m., the football team (8-2) played Conant High school on Dickinson Field. They beat Conant (6-4) in the first round of the Class 8A playoffs with a score of 28-14. Matthew Bobak, senior running back, led the team rushing 22 times for 192 yards and three touchdowns. Bobak scored t...
Central loses to Lyons Township in Sectional Finals
Brandon Belgrad, Kabir Sawlani, Editor-in-Chief, and Abby Stockmal, Editor-in-Chief
October 30, 2018
Filed under Boys' Soccer, Fall, Sports, Top Stories
On Tuesday, Oct. 16, the boy’s soccer team lost their sectional game in an overtime thriller to Lyons Township High School. The score of the game was 2-1, with the goal coming from Kosta Kinnas, team co-captain. The game finished in penalties, with LT scoring all five of their penalty attempts, and Central scoring four. The game came down to the last penalty and, Ethan Tur...
Girls and Boys Varsity Cross Country qualifies for State
Rachel Wagner, Leah Stevens, Section Editor, Kabir Sawlani, Editor-in-Chief, and Abby Stockmal, Editor-in-Chief
October 29, 2018
Filed under Cross Country, Fall, Sports, Top Stories
The varsity girl’s and boy’s cross country teams qualified for state after running in the IHSA Chicago Marist 3A Sectional in Midlothian Meadows, Midlothian Ill. on Saturday, Oct. 27. The girl’s race kicked off at 10 a.m. on a partly cloudy, 50 degree Saturday morning on a flat 2.98-mile cou...