Sports

IHSA moves wrestling to summer, allows basketball to play

Published by admin on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 5:22pm
Kudos to the Illinois High School Association for making its own decision concerning winter sports.

Reed-Custer senior Tess Richey makes a splash at sectionals

Published by admin on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 5:22pm

by shawn long
staff writer
Reed-Custer swimmer Tess Richey competed in the Illinois High School Association’s Girls Swimming and Diving Sectional at Lockport High School on Saturday.
Richey senior competing on the Kankakee High School swim team since Reed-Custer does not offer the sport.
Richey competed in three events during her final swimming and diving meet of the schoolyear, and she delivered a pretty good showing.

Cougill selects a standout Comet baseball dream team

Published by admin on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 5:21pm

by shawn long
staff writer
Ever wished you could put together a dream team of Reed-Custer High School baseball players?
We asked longtime Comet coach Jerry Cougill who his picks would be and he didn’t skip a beat in naming off players and their positions.
For pitchers, he named 1985 standout Brian DuBois and 2016 graduate Brent Headrick for a best of three wild card match when he’d need the first two games to take the series.

Vercelli, Russell help pick a Wildcat baseball dream team

Published by admin on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 5:20pm

by shawn long
staff writer
Ever wondered who would be picked to make up a Wilmington High School baseball dream team?
We asked two former Wilmington coaches, Les Russell and Lodi Vercelli, to help put together a dream team of past Wildcats since both were players and contributing coaches to the program.
Vercelli played baseball and football and it influenced him to pay it back to younger athletes by participating as a coach.

McDowell selects talented Coaler baseball dream team

Published by admin on Tue, 10/27/2020 - 5:18pm

by shawn long
staff writer
Ever been tempted to pool all the baseball players from Coal City’s past and pick the best of the best?
Here’s your chance. Former Coal City baseball coach Jerry McDowell has given us names of players he’d have on his all-time Coaler baseball dream team.
McDowell starts at first base with Nick Arndt, a long ball hitter who finished with 39 career home runs, a school record that still stands and is fifth in the state record books.

Free Press Advocate readers help with Wildcat ‘dream team’

Published by admin on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 4:11pm

by shawn long
staff writer
Just like Fantasy Football involving NFL players, we thought what if a dream team of Wildcat football players had to be put together, who would be on the list?
We polled our readers for input and after two weeks of suggestions and a look back at those players who hold school records, we were able to come up with a list.
Here’s the Wildcat fantasy football team we’d put on the field against any team.
Quarterback

Comet graduate Perrott’s fantasy football picks

Published by admin on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 4:08pm

by shawn long
staff writer
With the NFL having their Fantasy football every year, it sparked a “what if” scenario.
What if the Reed-Custer football program could choose players from the past?
They’d be unstoppable.
One of our readers and former Reed-Custer graduate Graham Perrott, gave us his opinion on who he would have on his Comet fantasy team.
Quarterback
At quarterback, would be Josh Loomis who was the quarterback for the Comets from 2016-18. He passed for 2,628 yards and had 1,250 yards rushing, giving him 3,895 all-purpose yards.

Coal City Courant readers help develop Coal City ‘dream team’

Published by admin on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 4:07pm

by shawn long
staff writer
With the NFL holding Fantasy Football every year, it sparked a “what if” scenario.
What if the Coal City football program could choose players from the past to form a dream team?
We polled Coal City Courant readers for input and after two weeks came up with a dream team made up of all-time Coaler standouts.
Quarterback
At quarterback, readers selected passing leader Cody Onsen.

IHSA to allow spring, summer athletes to play on club teams simultaneously

Published by admin on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 4:06pm

The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors met virtually Monday, to provide a timetable on winter sports decisions, and voted on a by-law change that would allow spring and summer athletes to play club ball simultaneously.
The Board said winter sports details will be given October 28.

Anticipating that the Comets will be back in the playoffs

Published by admin on Tue, 10/20/2020 - 4:05pm

by shawn long
staff writer
Might this be the year for the football Comets?
There’s reason to believe the Reed-Custer football team will make the playoffs for the first time since the 2009 when they went 6-4.
Leading up to that year, the Comets made the playoffs three of the four years (2005, 7-3; 2006, 8-3; 2008, 7-3).
Expectations are high that the Comets, who have a slew of talented, beefy underclassmen, will make a solid run at a conference championship if not this year, then the next two seasons.