CSL Varsity: Maine South Wins CSL Conference Tournament; HP's Martinez POTW; Accettura Fan Vote POTW
Hoops, Sectional dance notes and state boys bowling qualifiers.
Greetings once more,
Let’s get to it.
The CSL Varsity Newsletter Player Of The Week is Highland Park wrestling’s Mark Martinez. The Fan Vote Player of The Week is Max Accettura of Vernon Hills wrestling.
WRESTLING
CSL South Dual Champion - Maine South (5-0)
CSL North Dual Champion - Deerfield (5-0)
CSL Conference Tournament Team Scores
Maine South 293
Deerfield 227.5
Glenbrook South 226
New Trier 181
Evanston 140
Highland Park 102
Glenbrook North 99
Vernon Hills 99
Maine West 55
Niles West 53
Maine East 42
Niles North 30
CSL Conference Tournament Winners
138-pound winner from Highland Park Mark Martinez is the CSL Player Of The Week and took CSL North outstanding wrestler honors from the meet. Glenbrook South’s Patrick Downing was outstanding wrestler for the CSL South.
“I’ve been varsity for four years. I’ve been around a long time. It feels great to be the guy getting his hand raised. It’s been a long road. It feels great.”
“Getting to the next level, I’ve been going to a lot more private lessons. I’ve been working with tougher guys. I’ve been wrestling and competing at a higher level and I think that’s brought success,” — Patrick Downing.
Winners by weight (Results copied from trackwrestling)
106 - 1st Place Match - Brett Harman (Park Ridge (Maine South)) 28-8 won by tech fall over Vincent Serwan (Deerfield (H.S.)) 22-14 (TF-1.5 4:37 (15-0))
113 - 1st Place Match - Christos Vaselopulos (Park Ridge (Maine South)) 15-8 won by decision over Mikchael Schick (Glenview (Glenbrook South)) 19-12 (Dec 4-2)
120 - 1st Place Match - Teddy Flores (Park Ridge (Maine South)) 30-3 won by decision over Luke Reddy (Deerfield (H.S.)) 27-9 (Dec 3-2)
126 - 1st Place Match - Jordan Rasof (Deerfield (H.S.)) 35-5 won by decision over Luke Morrison (Park Ridge (Maine South)) 17-7 (Dec 5-0)
132 - 3rd Place Match - Max Brown (Glenview (Glenbrook South)) 29-8 won by tech fall over Gavin Hoerr (Park Ridge (Maine South)) 20-13 (TF-1.5 5:43 (16-0))
138 - 1st Place Match - Mark Martinez (Highland Park) 25-1 won by fall over Renzo Morgan (Deerfield (H.S.)) 26-3 (Fall 1:32)
145 - 1st Place Match - Nate Beltran (Park Ridge (Maine South)) 28-3 won by decision over Wilson Wright (New Trier) 29-10 (Dec 10-3)
152 - 1st Place Match - Danny Spandiary (Park Ridge (Maine South)) 25-4 won by fall over Dmitry Derbedyenyev (Highland Park) 31-3 (Fall 3:40
160 - 1st Place Match - Patrick Downing (Glenview (Glenbrook South)) 29-4 won by decision over Ilya Dvoryannikov (Vernon Hills) 23-8 (Dec 5-2)
170 - 1st Place Match - Aiden Cohen (Deerfield (H.S.)) 35-4 won by fall over Darrion Coleman (Evanston (Twp.)) 19-7 (Fall 2:44)
182 - 1st Place Match - Danny Spandiary (Park Ridge (Maine South)) 25-4 won by fall over Dmitry Derbedyenyev (Highland Park) 31-3 (Fall 3:40
195 - 1st Place Match - Tommy Porrello (Park Ridge (Maine South)) 19-8 won by decision over Jacques Munkhjargal (Highland Park) 23-6 (Dec 8
220 - 1st Place Match - Alex Enkhbaatar (Glenview (Glenbrook South)) 27-7 won by fall over Braedon Manogura (Skokie (Niles West)) 14-6 (Fall 0:5
285 - 1st Place Match - Max Accettura (Vernon Hills) 30-3 won in the ultimate tie breaker over Drew Duffy (Glenview (Glenbrook South)) 27-3 (UTB 3-2)
Accettura the CSL Fan Vote Player Of The Week, also won the Comet Classic.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Maine South took control in the CSL South race with a 61-52 road win at GBS to move to 7-1 in the South. The win was its 16th in a row. The Hawks then had their win streak snapped Saturday vs. York, 50-42. The Titans are 6-2 in the South.
Here’s a story from the Maine South-GBS game.
Glenbrook South’s Gina Davorija has been on a hot run as of late and scored 22 points with 6 rebounds and 3 steals in a 56-42 win over
Niles North avenged a loss to Highland Park with a 55-47 victory over the Giants on the road Friday. Brianna Bolt scored 16, Sierra Stevens had `15 points, 5 steals, 4 rebounds and 3 assists.
Deerfield is now 8-0 in the conference, 19-4 overall and on a 6-game win streak.
Vernon Hills notched a big 49-40 win over Maine West in which Grace Koepke scored 21 points and Jaclyn Reidl scored 15 for the Warriors.
Rachael Zacks scored 19 in a 49-31 New Trier win over Glenbrook North. The Trevians shot 19 of 38 from the floor in the win and held the Spartans to 12 of 48 shooting.
Niles West’s Trisha Cirineo scored 16 points with 4 rebounds in a 54-42 win over Niles North.
The Record North shore did a story on Highland Park ‘s 3-year trajectory.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Niles North is still unbeaten in the CSL North after defeating Highland Park 59-41 this week. The Vikings are now 18-4, 7-0 in the CSL North.
Glenbrook North put up a big scoring day with 5 players scoring in double-figures in a 92-44 win over Yorkville Christian.
Rodell Davis hit 6 3-pointers and scored 24 points in an 85-52 Glenbrook South win over Leo.
Vernon Hills scored 40 points in the second half of a 65-44 win over Maine West.
BOYS SWIM & DIVE
GBN beat Evanston during the week and took 2nd at the SCN Varsity Invite on Saturday. At SCN, Jake Walter took 2nd in the 50 free and 100 free.
CHEER
CSL Cheer Competition Results on Jan. 12
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Team and Raw Score & Total Score
Vernon Hills, 94.00, 94.00
Maine South, 85.00, 81.50
Glenbrook South 82.24, 80.74
Evanston 72.86, 68.86
COED Prelim
Team, Raw Score & Total Score
Glenbrook North, 89.00, 89.00
Maine West, 85.58, 85.33
New Trier, 86.08, 79.08
Niles North, 77.72, 73.22
Vernon Hills also took 2nd at the Grayslake Central meet.
DANCE
In 3A, Maine South won the Warren Sectional, Glenbrook South earned 2nd and New Trier advanced to state for the first time in program history when it took 6th.
In 2A, Deerfield and Vernon Hills took 4th and 5th, respectively to advance to state from the Warren Sectional.
GIRLS BOWLING
New Trier defeated Evanston to improve to 9-2, led by Madeline Blake’s 564 series.
Grace Funke had the high game (213) and high series (599) in a Vernon Hills win over Deerfield.
BOYS BOWLING
State Qualifiers: Glenbrook North qualified as a team with a score of 6,238, runner-up at the IC Catholic Sectional to Reavis. Evanston was 7th and New Trier took 9th.
Kai Nitzschke’s score of 1,389 for 3rd place led the Spartans.
Vernon Hills’ Zack Shoemaker advanced from the Rockford Guilford Sectional with a 1,299 series.
GYMNASTICS
DID YOU SEE?
Glenbrook North’s Patrick Mahoney committed to Illinois for football as a long-snapper.
I did a Senior Spotlight on Maine West wrestler Katerina Conrad.
GRAD CATCHUPS
Niles West graduate Sam Burns is off to a hot start as a freshman in the high hurdles at Western Colorado. Gomountaineers.com’s Brandon Warr wrote the following about Burns:
Sam Burns not only earned an NCAA provisional qualifying mark in the men's 60m hurdles, crossing the finish line in 8.18-seconds – which earned him second-place - he also moved up to fifth all-time.
Deerfield graduate Henry Boudreau is off to a strong start this winter season for Notre Dame track and field. He had consecutive PRs at the Irish’s home meet.
Maine East graduate Mahima Chokshi is averaging 8.4 points per game as a freshman at the Milwaukee School Of Engineering.
