CSLV: GBN 5th at Badminton State; Trevians and Wolves Win Conference Track & Field Titles

New Trier baseball keeps winning. Maine West ends Vernon Hills' North softball dominance.

OF NOTE 

I missed some badminton state qualifiers from Deerfield in my last newsletter published on Thursday. 

Emma Krasny & Rebecca Choi (doubles)

Tanya Kartcehva & McKayla O’Neal (doubles)

Esther Kim (singles)

Maya Krasny (singles)

BADMINTON STATE TOP PERFORMERS

Glenbrook North was the top finishing CSL school, taking 5th.

Allison Endres went 4-2 in singles

Emma Yin was 2-2 in singles

Anna Choi & Juliette Zhou finished 2-2 in doubles

Sydney Stachovic & Vivian Zhao were 4-2

Evanston’s best finishers were Arnie Gopez & Delcy Garfield, who went 3-2 in doubles. 

GBS’ best finish came from Kenya Patel and Saya Patel who went 3-2 in doubles. 

Maine South’s singles competitions Anna Leudeva and Jillian Rothenberger each went 3-2. 

Madison Liu of New Trier went 3-2. The doubles pairs of Kelsea Banh/Elizabeth Dabiza and Raina Patel/Tess Trieu each went 4-2. 

Vernon Hills’ Neha Kulkarni finished 4-2 and the doubles duo of Diya Ragan/Lasya Kancharla-Chowdry were 3-2. 

Deerfield’s Esther Kim went 2-2. 

BOYS GYMNASTICS 

Evanston brought home a 2nd-place team finish at the IHSGCA state meet with 150.70 team points, finishing behind only Wheaton Co-Op. 

Erik Van Leer finished 2nd in the all-around (54.40) and was the state champion in the vault (9.45).

Wildkit Mo Frischer was 11th in the all-around and teammate Jacob Potter was 14th. 

Glenbrook South’s David Kim took 17th in the all-around. 

The top finishes per event for a CSL athlete were:

Floor exercise - Xavier Probst, ETHS tied for 3rd with a 9.35

Pommel horse - Erik Van Leer, ETHS, 5th place with a 8.65

Still rings - Erik Van Leer, ETHS, 9.05

Parallel Bars - Erik Van Leer, ETHS, 2nd 9.40

Horizontal Bar - Erik Van Leer, ETHS, 7th, 8.55

GIRLS TRACK & FIELD STATE QUALIFIERS

100 Meters - Emilia Smith, New Trier

400 Meters - Gabriela Manzano, New Trier; Sarah Mendoza, Maine South 

800 Meters - Sofia Arcuri, Maine South; Anna Rivera, New Trier; Anna Lester, Vernon Hills; Tessie Bradley, Maine South

1,600 - Stella Davis, ETHS; Josie Cahill, New Trier; Anna Lester, Vernon Hills 

3,200 - Josie Cahill, New Trier 

100 hurdles - Grace Welhouse, Highland Park

300 hurdles - Nyel Rollins, ETHS, Carly McConnell, New Trier; Amelie Mach, Maine West 

4x100 - ETHS (Sterling, Vandergriff, Rollins, Decastro)

4x200 - ETHS (Vandergriff, Rollins,Decastro, Sterling); New Trier (Emilia Smith, Tessa Gluek, Maria Howie, Marley Meyers)

4x400 - New Trier (Smith, McConnell, Rivera, Manzano); Maine South (Josie Hennes, Sarah Mendoza, Lauren Marogil, Sofia Arcuri)

4x800 — New Trier (Scarborough, Abbott, Ritchie, Rivera); Maine South (DeLuca, Seurynck, Marogil, Bradley)

Shot put - Briana Bolt, Niles North

High jump - Amelie Mach, Maine West; Charlotte Okulaja, Glenbrook North

Pole Vault - Caitlyn Gillespie, Maine West

Long jump - Gabriela Manzano, New Trier; Carissa Uy, Niles West; Charlotte Okulaja, Glenbrook North

Triple Jump - Gabriela Manzano, New Trier; Carissa Uy, Niles West

New Trier finished 2nd at the Deerfield sectional, Evanston was 4th. 

BOYS TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS

CSL North

Team Standings

1. Niles West 143

2. Highland Park 133

3. Niles North 121

4. Maine East 67

5. Vernon Hils 52

6. Maine West 36

Event winners

100 - Maksym Magota, Maine West, 11.10

200 - Sean Kalu, Vernon Hills, 22.57

400 - Lukaas Nales, Highland Park, 52.89

800 - Ari Elmayan, Niles North, 1:57.19

1,600 - Evan Parker, Niles North, 4:26.74

3,200 - Evan Parker, Niles North, 9:22.40

110 hurdles - Dagem Gashaw, Niles West, 15.41

300 hurdles - Dagam Gashaw, Niles West, 40.88

4x100 - MW (Martinez, Makota, Hicks, Marinho), 42.74 

4x200 - NN (Vazheparampil, Osselin, Quiros, Hood), 1:30.63

4x400 - HP (Czerwinski, Coren, Oboza, Nales), 3:26.88

4x800 - NW (Castro, Rizzotti, Yousfi, Grant), 8:14.23

Shot put - Roman Wolanin, ME, 16.05m

Discus - Roman Wolanin, ME, 43.36m

High jump - Russell Czerwinski, HP, 1.90m

Pole vault - Murad Sawalha, NW, 3.89m

Long jump - CJ Hood, NN, 6.37m

Triple jump - Russell Czerwinski, HP, 13.45m

CSL South 

Team standings 

1. New Trier 173 

2. GBS 112

3. Evanston 97

4. Deerfield 74

5. GBN 50

6. Maine South 48

Event Winners 

100 - Conor Beach, GBS, 10.85

200 - Conor Beach, GBS, 22.13

400 - Tucker Anglemyer, NT, 49.14

800 - John Ihrke, GBN, 1:58.10

1,600 - Ben Crane, NT, 4:20.30

3,200 - Felix Hekster, NT, 9:29.23

110 hurdles - Matthew Vergamini, GBS, 15.52 

300 hurdles - Jordan Harvey, ETHS, 41.19

4x100 - NT (McGreal, Nemerovski, Anglemyer, Lander), 42.50

4x200 - GBS, (Spills, Cotton, Williams, Beach) 1:28.95

4x400 - NT, (Rick, Landwer, Miller, Anglemyer), 3:26.72

4x800 -  NT, (Fix, Garrett, Shu, Crane), 8:05.26

Shot put - Enijel Shelton, ETHS, 15.96

Discus - Ryan Cunningham, DF, 44.88

High jump - Oliver Hassard, ETHS, 1.91m

Pole vault - Mason Cornwell, GBS, 3.86m

Long jump - Tyrone Cotton, GBS, 6.86m

Triple jump - Harrison Erdman, DF, 13.19m

NT’s 4x100 time is the new school record. 

GRAD CATCHUPS

Niles West graduate and current Oakton Community College women’s golfer Irene Metaxas committed to Clarke University for golf. 

GBN graduate Spencer Geake (2023) will attend Harper College and play baseball. 

New Trier graduate Nevan Cremascoli announced his intention to transfer from Northern Illinois for South Dakota for football. 

Deerfield graduate Sam Liokumovich finished 3rd in shot put at the final Pac-12 Men’s track and field championships. 

DID YOU SEE?

Highland Park won the CSL North boys tennis championship. 

New Trier won the CSL South boys tennis title. Evanston’s Finn Pollard was the No. 1 singles champ, defeating New Trier’s Chris Adelman 6-2, 6-2 in the final. 

Maine West has hired Adam York as its varsity boys tennis coach. 

As of Sunday, New Trier baseball had won 20 consecutive games, is 13-0 in the CSL and has clinched the CSL South title. 

Evanston’s girls water polo team claimed a sectional championship with an 8-2 win over New Trier. 

New Trier won a sectional title in boys water polo by defeating Maine South 15-3. 

Maine West softball ended Vernon Hills’ streak of 6 consecutive CSL North titles, finishing the CSL North slate 8-0. The Warriors were 17-3 after the weekend.

Vernon Hills boy volleyball’s Ben Miller smashed 27 kills in a 3-set loss to GBS and set the school record for kills in a season with 333. 

Glenbrook South baseball’s John Meier allowed 1 hit and 0 runs over 5 innings as the Titans defeated GBN 1-0. 

Niles West’s Sophia Holtzman committed to Florida Gulf Coast for women’s soccer. 

Maine East’s Timo Kate committed to Illinois Central College for football. 

Above photo via Maine East Athletics is of the Blue Demons’ signing day student-athletes.