CSLV: 3 Programs Take Home Swim & Dive Titles; Yuan/Eidelman win POTW Honors
Deerfied and Maine South girls win sectional basketball titles.
The CSL Varsity Newsletter Player of The Week is Glenbrook South swimmer Ryan Eidelman.
The CSLV Fan Vote Player of the Week goes to Glenbrook North diver Matthew Yuan.
Read more below about the CSL’s top finishers at the state meet.
OF NOTE
Once outdoor track and field starts with the spring sports season, there will be weekly “BOYS/GIRLS TRACK AND FIELD” sections, but until then, I’ll just note some top performances in “Did you See?”
If you see an indoor track and field performance that is deserving of particular attention, you can still submit those athletes for Player of the Week nominations.
A reminder to those who wish to submit results, notes or story ideas, my email is a great place to submit CSL results. That’s Kalebcarter4256@gmail.com
SWIM & DIVE
Four CSL programs occupied 4 of the top 12 team spots at the IHSA state swim and dive meet.
New Trier led the way in 2nd, Highland Park was 4th, Maine South took 5th ad Glenbrook North was 12th.
Winning state titles for CSL programs were:
Ryan Eidelman, GBS, Athletes With Disabilities, 200 free (2:06.44), 50 free (26.37), 100 free (57.34), 100 breast stroke (1:16.19).
Aiden Musick, NT, 100 fly, 47.75
Kevin Obochi, HP, 50 fly, 20.34
Matthew Yuan, GBN, 1 meter dive, 538.30
Other top 3 finishers for the CSL were:
New Trier
200 Free, Aiden Musick, 3rd place, 1:38.50
200 Free Relay, Aiden Musick, Brady Baxter, Augustus Noreuil, Max Lestina, 3rd place, 1:23.87
400 Free relay, Graham Wilson, Max Lestina, George Angelov, Aiden Musick, 2nd place, 3:05.55
Highland Park
1 meter Dive, Noam Kulbak, 2nd place, 527.75
100 fly, Kevin Obochi, 3rd place, 48.72
Maine South
200 Medley, Ljubomir Popovic, Bart Kubis, Dominic Mazurek, Danilo Marsenic, , 3rd place, 1:32.29
200 IM, Dominic Mazurek, 1:49.93
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Deerfield jumped out to a hot start and held off a comeback attempt from Carmel to claim a Class 3A sectional title at home Wednesday.
The Kerstein sisters, Lexi and Nikki scored the first 10 points of the game, and combined for 32 points.
“We definitely wanted to pressure them because we know that we’re really good defensively in the full court,” Lexi Kerstein said. “A lot of people think they can just go by us, but we’re really good a keeping the girl in front of us. Definitely getting steals off that, in the fourth quarter as you saw, we got a ton of steals and that’s what we were planning.”
The Warriors locked down the Corsairs, who had scored just once in the first six minutes of the game.
Olivia Kerndt and the Warriors were big on the boards in the early-going, though Carmel senior and Michigan State commit Jordan Wood brought the Corsairs within 3 points in the third quarter, and Carmel trailed only 35-30 to end the third.
Lexi Kerstein said staying calm in such moments is crucial.
“You have to zone everything out and there were a ton of people here, but whatever happens in these four lines, you can only control what you can control.”
Corsairs junior guard Ashley Schlabowske, whose defense flustered the Warriors at times in the second half, pulled the Corsairs back within 3, but Kerndt hit a big bucket and Aubrey Galvan scored 8 fourth-quarter points.
Galvan’s defense (7 steals) and late-game play was critical in the Warriors win. Brenna Burns gave the Warriors an energy boost on the bench and on the floor in the third. Galvan also scored 13.
“We just needed to get back to be locked in,” Galvan said. I think as a team we all really came together. The team connection we have, we really pulled it off.”
Deerfield (28-5) plays Montini (27-7) tonight (Monday) at Dundee-Crown, with a state berth on the line. The Warriors fell to the Broncos on December 13th at Lake Zurich’s Exam Jamm event.
Maine South claimed a sectional title with a win over Loyola Academy, 49-38.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Teams remaining:
New Trier defeated Niles North for a regional title, 68-42.
Glenbrook South defeated Evanston 47-43 for a regional championship with Ryan Taylor leading the Titans with 20 points.
Glenbrook North claimed a regional title with a 66-49 victory over Taft, led by 22 from Sam Lappin.
GIRLS WRESTLING
Top finishers at girls state:
Angela Lee, Maine South, 5th at 115, She went 28-4 this season.
Al Ghala Al Radi, Niles West, 5th at 140, She went 31-3 this season.
BOYS WRESTLING
Deerfield defeated St. Patrick to advance to dual team state in Bloomington where the Warriors lost to Wauconda, 40-39.
Maine South fell short of a dual team state berth. Maine South lost to eventual state dual champion St. Charles East at the DeKalb sectional.
GRAD CATCH-UPS
Glenbrook South graduate Sydney Willits won the Big 12 indoor long jump title for Iowa State with a leap of 6.33 meters
Highland Park graduate Addie Budnik reached 1,000 career points for the Richmond Spiders women’s basketball team.
Deerfield graduate Adam Pottinger, previously a standout at Triton College, hit his first home run for Indiana State baseball in a Feb. 25 loss to Northeastern.
New Trier graduate Ronan O’Neill is a Big East indoor track and field champion in the 4x400 for Villanova.
DID YOU SEE?
Niles West won the Paul Swanson Invite, defeating 6 other teams in attendance. Meet results here.
Evanston’s Mike Granjean won the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.22 Saturday at Lakes’ Clash at the Coliseum.
Maine South’s girl track team won 3 events at the Plainfield North Invite.
