CSLV Newsletter: Maine East Hosts Mejoe Hernandez Invite; Accettura POTW; GBN Wins Sprint Classic
Kokosioulos an All-American for Fordham, Cougars win Candy Cane Invite.
The CSL Varsity Player of the Week is Vernon Hills heavyweight wrestler Max Accettura. For more on the mutli-sport standout for the Cougars, check out the wrestling section below.
GYMNASTICS
Vernon Hills won the Candy Cane Invite narrowly over Geneva, with 141.500 team points to 141.270.
Livy Tran won the floor exercise with a 9.450 and was 4th in the all-around with a 36.375.
Maine South took 8th at the event, with Anastasia Gritsonis taking 12th in the all-around with a 33.750.
Glenbrook North won its home Spartan Classic Friday with a team score of 139.300. Evanston was 4th, Niles North’s 6th and Maine West too 9th.
For the Spartans, Betsy Alcorn won the all-around with a 36.700. She won the floor exercise, balance beam and uneven bars.
Anna Bozarth with 4th and Franca Stohlgren was tied for 5th for GBN.
Izzy Gott took the vault for GBN with a 9.300.
Evanston’s Ella Eovaldi was 7th in the all-around with a 33.100 and Maine West’s Maya Woroszylo took 10th with a 31.050.
During the week, Deerfield won a meet vs. Maine East, Glenbrook South grabbed one vs. Niles West (Frank Shim took the all-around), New Trier defeated Evanston with Ella Eovaldi grabbing the all-around and GBN took one against Maine South.
Deerfield was also 4th at Hinsdale Central’s Red Devil Invite, with Peri Arkin and Avery Cheris winning 8th and 9th respectively, in the all-around.
GIRLS BASKETBALL
Deerfield is out to a conference-best 10-1 start, though it did lose to Libertyville on Saturday.
Maine South removed Glenbrook South from the ranks of the unbeaten by winning 62-45 on Tuesday. The Titans are now 9-1, 3-1 in the CSL South. Maine South is 7-3, 3-1 in the CSL South. The Hawks also grabbed a nice, 60-54 win over Lincoln-Way West.
The Titans’ Sidney Rogers was the most recent CSLV Fan Vote Player of the Week winner.
Grace Koepke of Vernon Hills was named the Lake County News Sun’s girls basketball player of the week. The Cougars are 7-3 and 3-1 in the CSL North.
Maine West held Maine East under 20 in a 48-19 victory.
BOYS BASKETBALL
Glenbrook North grabbed the biggest CSL victory for any conference squad yet with a 71-59 home victory over Evanston Thursday. Josh Fridman (21) Patrick Schaller (16) and Ryan Cohen (15) were the leading scorers for Evanston. Hunter Duncan put up a game-high 23 points for the Wildkits.
The Spartans, who also won at Highland Park this week, are now 8-0, 2-0 in the CSL South.
New Trier picked up quite the win, with fan vote player of the week Ian Brown setting a new school record with 12 3-pointers for all ofhis 36 points in a 65-64 win over state-ranked rolling meadows. Jake Fiegen scored the winning bucket with 15 seconds left. The Trevians also bested Glenbrook South on the road, 52-46 and are now 7-1, 2-0 in the CSL South.
Brown was voted Fan Vote Player of the Week and had 79% of 111 votes in a Twitter poll.
Also notably, Vernon Hills’ defense was suffocating in a 42-19 win.
Trevians senior forward Tyler Van Gorp also committed to Williams College in Massachusetts.
Maine South celebrated its 1979 state championship team Friday.
Maine South coach Colin Wehner provided this photo. For more on that night, I’ll have a story about the night in Journal & Topics Media Group papers, including the Park Ridge Journal.
Check out my game thread from Niles West’s wild 52-50 win over Maine South.
GIRLS WRESTLING
Maine East hosted a 200+ individual girls wrestling meet, the Mejoe Hernandez Invite, named for the longtime Blue Demons coach.
CSL winners were Angela Lee of Maine South (115) and Al Ghana Marian Al Radi of Niles West (135)
The Blue Demons’ Eliana Badeen (105) and Merium Lupu (130) each took second in their class.
Above photos provided by Maine East Athletics.
BOYS WRESTLING
Vernon Hills’ Max Accettura went 3-0 with 3 pins at Buffalo Grove’s Rex Lewis invite. he
An all-conference two-way lineman in football, Accettura committed to Wisconsin-Plattville to compete on the gridiron.
Glenbrook South’s Drew Duffy took home the title in the 285-pound weight class at the Prospect Invite. Patrick Downing was 2nd at 160.
The Titans also defeated New Trier 46-27 in a dual to move to 2-0 in conference.
Deerfield moved to 2-0 in the North with a win over Niles North.
SWIM & DIVE
GBN won its home Sprint Classic with the Spartans taking top spots in the following events.
Mattthew Yaun - 1 Meter Dive
200 Medley Relay
200 Free Relay
Jake Walter - 50 Free
Euben Ko - 50 Butterly
Josh Hyun - 25 Freestyle
Matthew Gers - 25 Backstroke
300 Freestyle Relay
Evanston’s Evan Linder helped his team to a dual win at Highland Park 97-89, winning the 200 free and 100 free .
At GBN’s Sprint Classic, he was 3rd in the 100 free, 3rd in the 200 real and 2nd in the 25 free. The Wildkits took 2nd overall.
GIRLS BOWLING
Evanston took 2nd at the Bloomington Invitationaland Jai Burgess earned 4th overall.
BOYS BOWLING
New Trier handed Evanston its first conference loss, 3,541-3,496.
Glenbrook North’s Josh Sachs bowled a 752 series in a 3,679, 3,350 win over Libertyville.
DID YOU SEE?
Niles West’s Taha Mohammed came home with hardware from Special Olympics Bowling State.
Glenbrook South all-state defensive lineman Jacque Gariepy has committed to Drake University for football.
Vernon Hills’ Alexa Cieslinski has committed to Wisconsin- Eau Claire for volleyball.
Maine West’s Ana Lopez signed with Oakton Community College to play soccer.
Evanston football’s Florian Feldman committed to Denison.
GRAD CATCH-UPS
Maine South alum Peter Skoronski, a Northwestern offensive tackle, earned Walter Camp 1st team All-American honors.
I went to watch the DePaul at Loyola women’s basketball game Wednesday. It’s nice to get over to Gentile Arena, which is just over a 10-minute walk from my apartment in Rogers Park. The game wasn’t particularly good — The Blue Demons won 78-52 — Darrione Rogers (Lake Park grad) and Aneesah Morrow (Simeon grad) tore up the Ramblers. However, it was nice to see Niles West graduate Sam Galanopoulos.
The senior guard from Niles West has scored at least 11 points in each of her last three games, including a 15-point performance with 4 rebounds and 3 steals in a 57-54 home win over Bradley. She’s averaging 8.8 points and 2.9 rebounds Galanopoulos’ leadership will be critical as the Ramblers enter Atlantic 10 play for the first time.
Maine South graduate Fotis Kokosioulis has carved out quite the career at Fordham.
Against Ohio University this season (proud Bobcat alum over here) Kokosioulis had 320 receiving yards and 4 touchdowns on 13 receptions. He compiled a stat line of 1,312 yards on 103 catches and scored 14 touchdowns. He had 4 games of at least 12 receptions this season. For his career at Fordham (he was at NIU initially after his all-state career at Maine South), Kokosioulis had 2,994 receiving yards and 35 touchdowns on 229 receptions. He also averaged 24.4 yards per kick return this year (513 yards on 21 returns).
Can’t imagine this is the last time I’ll be writing about Kokosioulis.
