CSL VARSITY: 5 Teams Share CSL Baseball Titles; Wright, Artley Win State Gold; New Trier Repeats in The Pool

Interesting note about Maine West athletes honored for school's Hall of Fame.

OF NOTE

I’m collecting all-conference teams and all-area teams. To submt that info, sen it to kalebcarter4256@gmail.com or on Twitter, @CSL_Varsity

#CSLStar honorees for the past week include: 

May 15 — Maggie Burns, Niles West softball, complete game shutout in the circle and hit a homer at the dish in an 8-0 win over Niles North.

May 16 — Delila Liston, Evanston softball, went 4 for 4 with 3 runs a double and 5 RBIs in a 12-0 Wildkits win over GBN.

May 17 — Ethan Mann, Deerfield boys volleyball, 16 digs in a win over Maine West.

May 18 — Ryan Schaefer, Glenbrook South boys track and field. Won in each event he competed in at the Deerfield sectional (300 hurdles, long jump, high jump, 4x100). 

May 19 — Noah Wendt, New Trier boys water polo, 6 goals in a 17-6 win over Whitney Young in the state quarterfinal.

May 20 — Dawson Wright of Evanston girls track and field was crowned a state champion in the shot put. Her throw of 13.19m bested the field. For the same squad, Abrielle Artley takes the 300 hurdles title (43.25) and 2nd in the 100 hurdles.

#CSLMIT (Moment in Time)

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May 19

May 20

GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD 

Evanston had much to celebrate with Abrielle Artley and Dawson Wright bringing home a state title each, Artley in the 300 hurdles 43.25 and Wright in the shot put, with her Day 1 mark of 13.19 meters holding up as the winning measurement. The Wildkits scored 31 team points to take 7th in Class 3A. 

Other top 10 finishes in 3A came from: 

• Abrielle Artley, Evanston, 100 hurdles, 2nd in 14.35

• Evanston 4x400, Abrielle Artley, Nyell Rollins, Kai Strickland, Esther Mueller, 7th in  4:01.18

• Juliet From, Glenbrook North, 4th in 1,600, 4:54.69

• Jaclyn Riedl, Maine West, 3rd in shot put, 13.07m

• Amelie Mach, Maine West, 5th in 300 hurdles in 45.48

• Gabriela Manzano, New Trier, 4th in long jump at 5.58m

• New Trier 4x800, Eva Scarborough, Josie Cahill, Anna Rivera, Clare Finnegan, 10th in 9:28.86.

• New Trier 4x400, Gabriela Manzano, Carly McConnell, Katie Sarnoff, Calli Chiarelli, 9th in 4:02.00

• Maine South’s 4x800 qualified for the finals and took 11th. 

For Vernon Hills in the 2A meet, Julia Rausa’s high jump finish of 16th was the top finish for the Cougars. 

BOYS TRACK AND FIELD

Grayslake North Sectional: (Vernon Hills)

FULL RESULTS 

Proviso East Sectional: (Maine South)

FULL RESULTS 

Deerfield Sectional: (Deerfield, Evanston, Glenbrook North, Glenbrook South, Highland Park, Maine East, Maine West, New Trier, Niles North, Niles West). 

FULL RESULTS

The Record North Shore wrote about Highland Park and New Trier.

BOYS WATER POLO

The New Trier Trevians scored a second consecutive state championship, defeating Stevenson in the title game 10-6 after having previously lost three times to the Patriots this season. Noah Wendt scored 4 goals in the title game.

Photo via New Trier Athletics

Photo via Dion Martorano

Photo via Dion Martorano

Photo via Dion Martorano

GIRLS WATER POLO

New Trier lost in the state quarterfinals to York, 9-5.

BOYS TENNIS 

New Trier, Highland Park and Glenbrook South each won a 2A sectional championship this past weekend. 

For the Giants at the Deerfield sectional, Evan Geblov and Blake Gold took home the No. 1 singles title. Geblov and Gold beat teammates Andrew Rosenfeld and Andrew Arzac to win. 

Konrad Kiwatkowski brought GBN a singles title. 

Bryce Abban and Alex Denizov earned a doubles sectional championship for the Titans. 

The Trevians’ Caden Liu earned the top singles spot in the sectional and the pair of Chris Ackerman and Stan Okesson grabbed the doubles title. Liu defeated Evanston’s Finn Pollard in the final.  Ackerman and Okesson beat teammates Oliver Coppieters and Daniel Matten in the final. 

Vernon Hills claimed a 1A sectional championship, with Roman Stukov securing the singles top spot and the duo of Daniel Schebalev and Aarush Vora winning the doubles bracket. Stukov defeated teammate Rohit Dashaputra to win the sectional. 

Schebalev and Vora also defeated teammates to win the doubles crown, defeating Milan Raval and Rudra Kukian. 

Photo via Vernon Hills athletics twitter account. 

BASEBALL 

It was a logjam at the top of the CSL baseball divisions this season. Maine West, Deerfield and Highland Park each needed a victory in their last conference game of the season in order to seal at least a share of the crown with identical 8-6 records.

For the Warriors, Zack Steingard gave up no earned runs in 6 innings on the mound in an 8-5 win over Niles North. 

Highland Park defeated Vernon Hills 3-0 in 9 innings, as Luke Weber pitched 8 and 2/3 innings and struck out 14 in the victory. Dylan Lew had a big 2-RBI double in the 9th to help put away Vernon Hills.  It was the second consecutive shutout for Giants pitching vs. the Cougars after Michael Pasquesi tossed a complete game shutout earlier in the week.

Deerfield defeated Maine East 12-7 to clinch its share. Eight Warriors had at least 1 RBI, while Easton Newman was 3 for 4 with a run, an RBI, and a walk. Tyler Bernstein was 2 for 5 with a triple and a run scored.

Glenbrook North and Maine South shared the CSL South championship with matching 13-3 records in conference play. Maine South split a pair of games with New Trier last week to share the South, while Glenbrook North had a huge pair of victories vs. Evanston to grab its share. 

SOFTBALL

Maine East junior Jayden Coppe reached 500 career strikeouts. 

GIRLS SOCCER

New Trier, Evanston and Deerfield are the teams still standing.

Deerfield defeated Grayslake North 5-2 to claim the regional crown. 

New Trier’s 3-1 win over Oak Park and River Forest in the regional title.

Evanston blanked Whitney Young 4-0 to move on to the sectional semis. 

BOYS LACROSSE

Glenbrook South are now winners of 13 straight and are ranked 6th in Illinois. (per MaxPreps).

GIRLS LACROSSE

CSL honorees to the all-sectional teams included:

Deerfield: Samara Braunstein

Evanston: Makayla Clark, Katherine Granchalek, Kylie Kimmel, Bridget Lesch, Rory Malia, Kylie O’Connor, Alice Porter.

Glenbrook South: Kate Kim

Glenbrook North: Rachael Rizzi, Piper Downey

Highland Park: Julia Leshtz

Maine South: Sophia Gianaris, Kaitlyn Gleason, Kaitlyn Goff

New Trier: Ellie Bornhoeft, Grace Mawicke, Kennedy Meier, Claire Rathe, Audrey Rudolph, Anna Seftenberg, Addie Shevitz, Allie Trunkenbrod

Vernon Hills: Lizzy Eitel

FULL ALL--SECTIONAL TEAMS

DID YOU SEE

I didn’t post an article for the last CSL Superlatives winners. Here are those winners.

These Class of 2023 athletes from Niles North committed to compete collegiately.

Charlie Parcell (baseball, golf), Josh Emeka (football) and Jaclyn Riedl (volleyball, basketball, track and field), were all inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame as they wrap up their senior years of athletics for Maine West. Riedl was named the Maine West Female Athlete of the Year, Parcell won the CSL North Player of the Year award for the second consecutive year and was named Maine West Male Athlete of The Year. 

Vernon Hills’ Grace Koepke coached a youth basketball team to a tournament championship. 

Vernon Hills’ Shawn Healey was inducted into the Illinois Coaches Association Golf Hall of Fame. 

Glenbrook North claimed at least a share of the CSL South at each of its four levels in baseball.