CSLV: Hall of Fame Honors and Postseason Excellence

CSL North goes down to the wire in girls basketball.

OF NOTE

Happenings and whatnots are from the week of Jan. 28-Feb. 3. I’m hopeful to take more pics toward the end of February and start of March for the newsletter. We’ll see how that goes. Fingers crossed.

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GIRLS BASKETBALL

In a chaotic final league-play night for the CSL North, Maine West and Highland Park each earned victories to earn a divisional share in terms of the standings, with both sitting at 7-3. Maine West grabbed the tiebreaker for bragging rights and the advantage for the CSL crossover, so the Warriors will play Maine South in that end-of-season contest. 

Highland Park defeated Niles North 48-39 and Maine West overcame an 18-point deficit to Niles West 50-43 to ensure the North hardware came back to Des Plaines.  

Niles West and Vernon Hills had a chance to tie the standings up, but the former, as mentioned, lost to Maine West and the Cougars fell to Maine East behind a 31-point performance from freshman Arabella Silva.

Evanston’s Kailey Starks had a big week, posting big stat lines including 26 points vs. Whitney Young and 28 in a win over New Trier. She also reached 1,000 points.

Maine South defeated Glenbrook North 52-43 to secure a perfect CSL South slate. 

Maine East’s Mariah Scott had a 30-point, 13-rebound game in a defeat of Fenton.

BOYS BASKETBALL

Niles North recognized Yaris Irby and Reid Olson for recently reaching 1,000 points I their respective careers. 

Hunter Gawron also scored 30 in a game for the Vikings.

Evanston earned its first win in New Trier’s new gym, see the celebration here.

Vernon Hills’ Deen Hatibovic notched 24 points, 10 rebounds in a 66-47 Cougars win vs. Maine East. 

GIRLS GYMNASTICS 

Vernon Hills won a team regional championship in its home gym, with a team score of 145.300. 

Event winners: 

Annika Chudy, VH, vault, 9.4750

Annika Chuddy, VH, bars, 9.6750

Mya Brusso, VH,  beam, 9.1750

Livy Tran, VH, floor, 9.7250

All-around winner: Annika Chuddy, 37.9250

Glenbrook North bought home gold hardware from the Schaumburg regional with a 142.2500 team score. 

Event winners:

Yasmeen Taha, GBN, vault, 9.3250

Ella Eovaldi, Evanston, bars, 9.0750

Isabel Gott, GBN, beam, 8.9750

Gugu Mulsoff, GBN, floor 9.2000

All-around winner: Ella Eovaldi, 35.7500

New Trier was the victor of its home regional after posting a 138.9000. 

Event winners:

Allie Mietus, GBS, vault, 9.1500

Clara Crossgrove,NT, bars, 9.5000

Allie Mietus, beam, 8.8750

All-around winner: Allie Mietus, GBS, 36.1000

GIRLS WRESTLING

Sectional wrestling for all CSL teams will be at Evanston on Friday and Saturday.

BOYS WRESTLING

Maine South won its home regional title and had 6 individual regional champs. The Hawks finished with 243.5 team points to 2nd-place Elk Grove’s 179.0 points. 

Sectional qualifiers:

Deerfield - Joey Becker, Adrian Cohen, Luke Reddy, Jackson Palzet, Jordan Rasof, Mark Martinez, Charlie Cross, Kevin Sabau, Max Drumke

Evanston - Eren Atac, Bryan Lemus, Manny Holloway, Rodrigo Salinas, Xavier Starks, Josh Marty, Jeremy Marshall

Glenbrook North - Ayaan Rizwan, Shane Onixt, Cray Paich 

Glenbrook South - Ermuun Urtnasan, Diego Arteaga, Emilio Arteaga, Michael Shick, Max Brown, Andrew Haritos, Henry Downing

Highland Park - Dmitry Derbedyenyev

Maine East - Dulguun Nyamdavaa, Mukhammadali Mametov, Ali Mohammed, Adnan Shkeir

Maine South - George Georgiev, Brett Harman, Teddy Flores, Jack Handley, Luke Morrison, Jake Colleran, Gavin Hoerr, Luke Gloetzner, Evan Rioch, Leo McDonald, Tyler Fortis 

Maine West - Luca Burgio, Logan Battersby, Dylan Kroschel, Peter Greco

New Trier - Tagg Miller, Yassin Aitemkour, Bailey Corneliuson

Niles North - Ahmad Musa, Trent Tono, Ollie Quiroz

Vernon Hills - Jack McGowean, Dylan Moncayo, Ilya Dvoriannikov

Regional champs: 

Luke Reddy, 126 Deerfield 

Rodrigo Salinas, 157, Evanston

Ayaan Rizwan, 113 Glenbrook North

Max Brown, 138, Glenbrook South

Dmitry Derbedyenyev, 165 Highland Park

Brett Harman, 113, Maine South

Teddy Flores, 120,  Maine South

Luke Morrison, 132, Maine South

Jake Colleran, 138, Maine South

Gavin Hoerr, 144, Maine South

Luke Gloetzner, 150, Maine South

Tagg Miller, 150 New Trier 

GIRLS BOWLING 

Evanston earned 2nd at its home regional, 45 pins behind winner Hersey, to advance to the sectional as a team 

Lillian Pavelec led the Wildkits with 1,081 pins. Madeline Blake led New Trier with 912 pins and advanced as an individual

BOYS SWIM & DIVE

GRAD CATCHUPS

Highland Park graduate Drew Deer, a member of the Cornell College wrestling team, has won 9 matches this season.

Deerfield alum Aaron Moorehead visited his old stomping grounds.

DID YOU SEE?

Glenbrook North’s Landon Lauter committed to Northwestern for football. 

Highland Park’s Michael Pasquesi committed to Webster University for baseball.

Evanston’s Declan Boutross committed to Dayton football.  

Niles West’s Lejaun Morales committed to McKendree for football. 

New Trier inducted 8 people into Athletics Hall of Honor (Record North Shore Story):

• Pete Burnside, coached baseball, basketball and cross country at NT

• Mary Jo Hanson Herzog Timmis, tennis

• Doug Chase, cross country and track

• Jim McFadzean, lacrosse, football

• Nancy Schroeder, athletics administration

• John Caldwell, softball

• Flo Malizola, badminton

• Gene Helfrich, baseball and football

Highland Park inducted 3 athletes into its Athletics Hall of Fame:

• Norm Parker, wrestling

• Josh Wexler, boys basketball

• Emily Feldman, soccer, basketball and cross country 

  

Deerfield boys track and field won the Jerry Lowe Invite at Auburn, Rockford.

New Trier’s Doug Chase was inducted into the school’s Hall of Honor. Chase was the boys cross country coach at New Trier for 31 years and head track and field coach for 21. 

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