Here’s the latest and greatest in the local Naperville area sports news highlights with a few tidbits thrown in from around the Chicagoland area and the rest of the country on this June day.
This time of year our focus turns to baseball and of course golf. So check out these local stories to get a quick update on whats happening in the sports world at this moment.
It’s a family affair at 3-on-3 basketball tournament
Brennan, Landan, Garrett and Griffan Callahan may be more recognized wearing the jerseys of Seneca green. However, Ebbey George’s blue seems to be working just the same.
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It’s a family affair at 3-on-3 basketball tournament
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A lot is going on at the Cell
Sometime in the midst of Ozzie Guillen already checking on return flights to Charlotte for Aaron Poreda (just in case), Josh Fields ruffling some feathers, a youth movement that is being disguised as, well, anything but a youth movement, the amateur draft and A.J. Pierzynski almost starting a bench-clearing brawl, the White Sox managed to find time to get a baseball game in Tuesday.
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A lot is going on at the Cell
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Sweet 16 hit parade
This was the kind of the game the Cubs kept promising was coming from its lineup. It was also in Houston, against the woeful Astros, but a team hitting just .194 in its last 11 road games will take any soft landing it can get as it tries to right its listing offense.
And it doesn’t get much softer than the Astros pitching staff, especially at Minute Maid Park for the Cubs, who beat the Astros for the eighth time in nine games on the road when they pounced on Houston for 16 hits in a 7-1 victory in the opener of a three-game series Tuesday night.
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After 100-mph pitcher, draft wide-open venture
With his 100 mph fastball, Stephen Strasburg has all but eliminated any mystery about which player will be picked first by the Washington Nationals in the baseball draft Tuesday night.
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After 100-mph pitcher, draft wide-open venture
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With draft, Krol will wait another day
The hype is finally catching up to the impact of the first-year player draft, an event driven by scouts who’d rather not see their names in the paper.
As an industry, baseball doesn’t have anything approaching college football’s marketing empire to promote its talent. The MLB Network broadcast the entire first round on Tuesday night, trying to introduce these unknowns to the rest of the world.
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With draft, Krol will wait another day
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Contreras pitches gem; saves the day for White Sox
The good and bad all came out in one day for the White Sox on Monday, their split of a doubleheader with Detroit answering one question and leaving plenty of others unanswered.
Are the Sox as bad fundamentally as their 5-4 loss in Game 1 made them appear to their fuming manager?
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Contreras pitches gem; saves the day for White Sox
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STANLEY CUP FINALS | PENGUINS 2, RED WINGS 1: Fleury, Pens push Wings to Game 7
No clincher by the Detroit Red Wings in Pittsburgh, not this time in Game 6. Marc-Andre Fleury wouldn’t let it happen as a wildly unpredictable Stanley Cup finals is now going the distance.
Third-line teammates Jordan Staal and Tyler Kennedy gave the Penguins a two-goal lead, and Fleury held off the defending champion Red Wings repeatedly during a frantic third period as Pittsburgh beat Detroit 2-1 on Tuesday to tie the finals at three games.
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Party like it’s 1989
In 1989, Naperville Central softball coach Andy Nussbaum led the Redhawks to the state tournament. “I had brown hair, I was thinner and I had one child,” Nussbaum said. Now in 2009, Nussbaum has added a few pounds, some gray hair and six more kids, and he’s finally headed back to state.
The Redhawks toppled Bartlett 2-0 in the Class 4A Benedictine University Super-Sectional on Monday to reach this weekend’s state tournament in
East Peoria.
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Party like it’s 1989
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Local golf: U.S. Open qualifier draws a small field
With only 21 players competing, Chicago has its smallest sectional field in many years. While the U.S. Golf Association hasn’t announced the number of U.S. Open berths available at each sectional site, Stonewall Orchard will have no more than two.
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