CSL Varsity: Hawks, Warriors Win Dual Wrestling Titles; Tran POTW; Hansen Fan Vote Winner

Fricke with win #300 and top performers from basketball, gymnastics and regional bowling highlighted.

Jan 17, 2023

The CSL Varsity Player Of The Week is Vernon Hills gymnast Livy Tran. The Fan Vote Player of The Week is Tait Hansen of Evanston girls gymnastics. For more info on them, check out the girls gymnastics section below.

BOYS WRESTLING

Maine South claimed a CSL South duel team title with a win over Glenbrook South Friday, 39-24. Here are the match-by-match results from the clinching Hawks victory.

Dual started at 113

113 Aidan Micek (MS) lost by Technical Fall 0-15 (4:11) to Michael Schick (GBS) 0-5

120 Teddy Flores (MS) won by fall (5:09) over Marcus Santos (GBS) 6-5

126 Luke Morrison (MS) won by decision (8-4) over Andrew Haritos (GBS) 9-5

132 Gavin Hoerr (MS) lost by decision (4-5) to Max Brown (GBS) 9-8

138 Sean Hamilton (MS) lost by major decision (1-9) to Steve Kannampallil (GBS) 9-12

145 Nate Beltran (MS) won by fall (1:13) over Henry Downing (GBS) 15-12

152 Danny Spandiary (MS) won by fall (5:47) over Drew Philbrick (GBS) 21-12

160 Alex Eng (MS) lost by fall (5:35) over Patrick Downing (GBS) 21-18

170 Sam Bartell (MS) won by decision (1-0) over Ilkin Badalov (GBS) 24-18

182 Filip Michniewicz (MS) won by decision (5-0) over Tony Prieto (GBS) 27-18

195 Tommy Porrello (MS) won by fall (3:29) over Christian Shammon (GBS) 33-18

220 Leo McDonald (MS) lost by decision (3-9) to Alex Enkhbaatar (GBS) 33-21

285 Tyler Fortis (MS) lost by (2-6) to Drew Duffy (GBS) 33-24

106 Brett Harman (MS) won by fall (1:08) over Urmunn Urtnasan (GBS) 39-24

Deerfield claimed its 15th consecutive CSL divisional dual crown with a 66-10 win over Highland Park.

New Trier rolled over Zion-Benton, Round Lake And Bartlett in duel competition.

GBS won duals over Carmel, Highland Park and Lake Zurich to up its duel record to 12-2.

COACH C @NilesWestAAD

Senior night for our 10 fantastic wrestlers! Thank you for your determination, sacrifice and dedication in your 4 years at Niles West. We will miss you, and you are always welcome here!

GIRLS WRESTLING

Maine South and Maine East both competed at the Hawks Girls Wrestling Invite.

Eliana Badeen’s 5th place finish at 103 pounds was the top finish for the Blue Demons. She won 4 matches by fall.

Angela Lee, 19-1 per trackwrestling.com, earned 1st overall for Maine South at 115. Angelina Guanajuato took 3rd at 170 pounds.

CHEER

Glenbrook North High School Athletics @GBN_Athletics

Varsity Conference Cheerleading Champions.

vhhscheer @vhhscheer1

VHVC 6-peat conference champs! With a HIT routine! @VHHSAth

Maine South Athletics @MaineSouthAth

Congratulations ⁦@CaseyGibbons6⁩ and the Hawkettes…first place at the CSL conference competition! Way to go Ladies!

BOYS BOWLING

New Trier brought home a regional title with 5,810 team pins as Charlie Hayden won the individual title with a 1,268 series.

Evanston’s Graham McKee was 2nd at the regional for the runner-up Wildkits. GBN joined NT and ETHS advancing as a team and Niles West advanced several individuals.

At the Libertyville regional, Vernon Hills advanced Zack Shoemaker and CJ Mendoza.

GIRLS BOWLING

New Trier Girls Bowling @ntgirlsbowl

Trevs (7-2) gets it done vs. Niles North! Captain Vicky Hughes leads the way with a personal high game of 219 and a 567 series! #gotrevs @AthleticsNTHS

BOYS BASKETBALL

New Trier boys basketball coach Scott Fricke notched win No. 300 of his career as the Trevians defeated Maine South on Friday. The Trevians are still undefeated in conference.

New Trier Athletics @AthleticsNTHS

Let the Celebration begin 300 wins!!!! Coach Fricke @NewTrierBBB @NewTrier203 @ntboosterclub

5 performers of note:

Tre Himes, Maine West, 23 points, 7 3’s in a win over Highland Park.
Reid Olson, Niles North, 27 points, 8 3’s in a victory vs. Maine East.
Derryl Gaddi, Maine East, 21 points in a win over Amundsen.
Ryan Cohen, GBN, Scored 21 as the Spartans beat Grayslake North.
Joey Pantazis, Niles West, posted 26 points as the Wolves fell to GBN.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

5 Performers of note:

Meegan Fahy scored 75 points over 3 games, including a 30-point, 5-rebound, 4-steal game vs. New Trier.
Sierra Stevens, NN, 13 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals, 4 blocks vs. Maine East
Grace Koepke, Vernon Hills, 26 points vs. Deerfield.
Trisha Cirineo, Niles West, scored a career-high 22 points as the Wolves beat Northside.
Nikki Kerstein, Deerfield, 21 points, 7 steals, 6 rebounds in win over Vernon Hills.

GIRLS GYMNASTICS

Livy Tran of Vernon Hills was the top all-around finisher at Lake County Invite. For that effort, she is the CSL Varsity Newsletter Player Of The Week.

Talk about depth in a team effort. Maine South won the Niles North Nintendo Invite without any individuals finishing in the top 10 of the all-around scoring.

Anastasia Gritsonis was 1st in the vault and balance beam.

Other CSL winners of events were Susannah Bailey of Evanston in the uneven bars and Ella Eovaldi in the floor exercise. Evanston’s Tait Hansen took 2nd in the all-around. Hansen is the CSL Varsity Newsletter Fan Vote Player of The Week.

Of note:

Betsy Alcorn, GBN, 1st in all-around, 1st in beam, 2nd in vault at Fremd invite.

Eleanor Burston, Niles North, 4th in all-around at home invite.