The CSL Varsity Newsletter: Golf Champions Take Center Stage, Beanblossom & Blumer Earn POTW, Deerfield XC Continues Streak
CSL Football Conference play is underway, with an amazing individual performance from a Highland Park player.
The 6th CSLV Newsletter Player(s) of the Week are golfer Amy Beanblossom of New Trier and Nicholas Blumer of Highland Park football. She is the third golfer to win POTW and first athlete from New Trier to do so. Blumer is the second Giant to win the award and second football player in the CSL to earn the distinction. To see what she accomplished, look just below in the golf write-up.
Photo via NT Athletics.
Golf
The Central Suburban League uses a unique points system to determine its conference winner, a system that yielded conference champions that differed from the conference tournament champions in several instances.
Glenbrook North boys golf’s 5-0 dual record in CSL South play, coupled with a second-place finish at the conference tournament meet, helped them bring home CSL championship hardware.
Similarly, the Vernon Hills girls took home conference championship honors after taking second at the conference tournament. The Cougars went 6-0 in dual play and claimed a second consecutive CSL North title.
Winners of CSL individual golf titles at the conference tournament were:
CSL North Girls - Lexi Schulman, Vernon Hills (73)
CSL North Boys - Hunter Whitney, Deerfield (73)
CSL South Girls - Amy Beanblossom, New Trier (69)
Beanblossom, The CSLV Newsletter Co-Player of the Week, shot 3 shots better than her next nearest competitor at the meet.
CSL South Boys - Alex Creamean, New Trier (68)
Winners of the team titles at the conference tournament were:
CSL North Girls - Deerfield (329)
CSL North Boys - Highland Park (319)
CSL South Girls - Glenbrook North (300)
CSL South Boys - New Trier (292)
Overall CSL champions for the season were:
CSL North Girls - Vernon Hills
CSL North Boys - Highland Park
CSL South Girls - Glenbrook North
CSL South Boys - Glenbrook North
Of note, Evanston freshman Keiran Low shot a remarkable 71 at the conference tournament.
GBN also went on to win the Lake Forest Invite with a team score of 288, besting second-place New Trier with a 296.
Football
Conference play is in full swing now, and the results pouring in are providing some clarity. Highland Park’s Nicholas Blumer is The CSL Varsity Newsletter Co- Player of the week.
The plan is to have a fan vote for football the remaining weeks of the regular season. This week’s fan’s vote winner was New Trier’s Patrick Heneghan (Class of 2025).
Highland Park earned Homecoming revenge at Niles North, winning 29-6. Nicholas Blumer had 180 yards receiving and 2 TDs on 11 catches and also recorded an interception and a blocked punt. DJ Robinson had 6 TFLs for HP.
New Trier defeated Evanston 17-10. Patrick Heneghan connected with Miles Cremascoli for a 91-yard touchdown. Heneghan threw for 211 yards for the Trevians in the win over the rival Wildkits. Per ETHS’s info aficionado Dennis Mahoney, Evanston holds the all-time series lead 55-53-6. Heneghan was 12 of 16 passing per Mahoney.
Deerfield held off Vernon Hills thanks in large part to Mac Jones’ 200-yard, 11 of 16, 2 TD passing performance.
Vernon Hills’ Ben Choi ran for 140 yards on 25 carries and had 2 rushing scores. Eric Boehmer recorded 12.5 tackles and a sack in addition to 5 receptions for 53 yards.
Maine West raced past Maine East with an early offensive onslaught that featured 160 yards passing from Tommy Delaney, 74 yards rushing, 78 receiving and 3 TDs from Isaac Pittman.
Maine South stomped Glenbrook North 43-0, with Jack DeFilippis recording 255 yards passing on 18 of 29 passing and had 3 TDs.
Glenbrook South held Niles West in-check, 31-0.
RECORDS (Overall and Conference)
North:
Highland Park 3-2, 1-0
Deerfield 2-3, 1-0
Maine West 2-3, 1-0
Niles North 1-4, 0-1
Maine East 1-4, 0-1
Vernon Hills 0-5, 0-1
South:
Glenbrook South 5-0, 1-0
Maine South 3-2, 1-0
New Trier 2-3, 1-0
Glenbrook North 2-3, 0-1
Niles West 2-3, 0-1
Evanston 1-4, 0-1
Cross Country
The Deerfield boys were able to nip Highland Park by a few points (27-29). Now they’ve won 44 straight duals vs CSL North teams. That’s a streak that dates back to 2018 for the Warriors, including eight consecutive quad meets and four conference championship meets.
Dylan Cohen (4th in 15:47.0), Dane Brown (5th), Ryan Jones (8th) and Jon Wool (9th) were all top 10 for the Warriors.
Highland Park’s Nate Whener won the boys race in 15:10.4. Charles Blackmer (15:34.5) and Brady Clegg (15:34.6) took 2nd and 3rd , respectively for Vernon Hills.
On the girls side, Anna Todd (18:24.8) and Jori Ellen took 1st and 2nd to lead Vernon Hills to three wins at the quad, barrel nipping Deerfield in points 28-29. Olivia Brown, Randi Tye and Natalie Arevalo took 3rd through 5th, respectively for Deerfield. Shayna Zavell led HP in 6th. Amelie Mach was Maine West’s top performer, taking 10th.
The Maine South boys earned 2nd at the Palatine Meet of Champions, and New trier took 5th. Luca Arcuri’s 15:07.45 was good enough for 11th. New Trier’s Ben Crane took 14th.
Maine South took 6th on the girls side.
Swim & Dive
Evanston took 4th of 6 teams at its home invite Saturday.
The Wildkits’ top finisher was Abby Romisher in the 500-yard freestyle in a time of 5:32.1.
Deerfield’s Annika Parkhe won the 500 meter freestyle at the Lake County Invite. Vernon Hills was led by Izzy Ramos’ third-place finish in the 200 IM.
Highland Park won a home dual meet vs. Vernon Hills. Sydney Lewis set a new school record in the 50 free with a 23.83 seconds.
New Trier defeated Vernon Hills in another dual, 126-60.
Soccer
Glenbrook South had a whirlwind weekend, defeating a top-ranked Noblesville (Indiana) team 2-1, before losing by scores of 2-0 and 4-0. The Titans also played this season’s class of the CSL New Trier, to a 1-1 tie.
Vernon Hills hasn’t given up a goal since Sept. 8 and now sits at 7-4-1 and hasn’t lost in CSL North play.
New Trier hasn’t lost to a CSL team and sits at 10-1-4. The Trevians’ 2-0win over Evanston was the biggest result of the week in the league.
Tennis
Evanston defeated Niles West 6-1.
New Trier took 2nd at Prospect’s Invite.
Vernon Hills defeated Carmel 6-3 and lost to Deerfield 7-0.
Niles North beat Elk Grove on senior night 7-0.
GBN’s win over Evanston pushed them to 4-0 in CSL play.
Volleyball
Niles North got hot and won consecutive matches against Highland Park and Deerfield in 2 sets apiece.
Niles West claimed the title at the Northridge Prep Tournament with a 5-0 record. The Wolves, who also won a 2-set match against Maine South earlier in the week, did not drop a set at Northridge and improved to 15-9 overall.
Vernon Hills and GBS are still rolling with 17 victories apiece, and the Cougars’ win streak after winning Harvard’s tourney is 10.
Maine West’s Jaclyn Riedl leads her team with 118 kills.
Did You See?
I ran the first CSLV Senior Spotlight and it was about Kevin Perez. Check it out here. Half of the Q&A is above the paywall:
Another Spotlight is coming early this week on a Vernon Hills athlete.
Grad Catchups
Evanston grad Joey Eovaldi, a 2018 grad, has accomplished a great deal while running track and cross country with the Syracuse University Orange. His team is ranked No. 20 in the NCAA DI Men’s Cross Country National Coaches’ Poll for Week 2.
Pro Football Focus posted a tweet a few days ago that said Maine South grad Peter Skoronski was the highest-graded (90.9) tackle in college football. This was before the Wildcats’ game against Miami. PFF uses metrics to determine how strong of play individuals are exhibiting.
