Bill Stone

Journalist at Riverside-Brookfield Landmark

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Articles

RBHS baseball, softball teams go after 4A regional titles

1 week ago | rblandmark.com | Bill Stone

Riverside Brookfield High School senior Jaden Despe will play baseball at the Milwaukee School of Engineering and major in biomedical engineering. “My dream job would be to make machines or equipment to help athletes and performance,” said Despe, who is currently thinking about his baseball present with the Bulldogs (19-13), who are the No. 7 seed in the Class 4A Reavis Sectional. The Bulldogs seek their first regional title since 2022.
Bulldogs’ Torrens, Norman headed to 3A state meet

1 week ago | rblandmark.com | Bill Stone

Whenever Riverside Brookfield High School senior Matthew Torrens needs a good track-related laugh, his friend pulls out the video of Torrens’ pole vault start as a freshman. “It’s kind of just like long jump with a pole over the bar almost because you’re not going up,” Torrens said. “Freshman year, obviously, I didn’t have any success. Sophomore year was kind of the first time I bent the pole.”Now committed to the event, Torrens has improved rapidly all the way to his first Class 3A state meet.
LTHS girls water polo bonds to take second in state

1 week ago | rblandmark.com | Bill Stone

Early Saturday, Lyons Township girls water polo coach Megan Jacobs promised her players she would take a celebratory postgame jump into the pool if the Lions simply reached the state championship match. That night, Jacobs and her assistants took the plunge after the Lions nearly pulled off their greatest upset in program history.
Mortonson, LTHS soccer battle back for another regional title

1 week ago | rblandmark.com | Bill Stone

Senior Caroline Mortonson appreciates and pays back the friendship from teammates when she was a freshman starting on varsity for the Lyons Township High School girls soccer team. “I had the most amazing group of seniors who drove me everywhere, really picked me up,” Mortonson said. “When I missed the (penalty kick) to lose our game in the playoffs, they took me to get food after so I try to do that to the people here.
Bulldogs’ Eggers arrives in time to qualify for 3A state in 400

2 weeks ago | rblandmark.com | Bill Stone

Riverside Brookfield High School senior Jorie Eggers made the final surge of her most important 400-meter dash Friday with a unique feeling. “Usually, even when I do good, I’m thinking, ‘This is hard. I can’t do this,’ ” Eggers said. “But when I came around today, it was like, ‘All right. I’ve got this,’ and I felt really different.” Eggers not only enjoyed the feeling of her fastest 400 ever that again broke her school record.
Save records for Bieliauskas, LTHS girls going back to state

2 weeks ago | rblandmark.com | Bill Stone

For good and bad, senior goalie Martynas Bieliauskas stopped lots of shots this season for the Riverside Brookfield High School boys water polo team. “Not always the best stat to have but I’ll take it,” Bieliauskas said. “It’s a good reflection on me. I try. That’s all I can say.” When senior teammate and friend Avi Ponnappan checked halfway through the season, Bieliauskas’ total saves were on pace for historic proportions.
RBHS volleyball keeps winning, earns share of UEC East title

2 weeks ago | rblandmark.com | Bill Stone

Senior Jack Schejbal and his Riverside Brookfield High School boys volleyball teammates felt good about winning their Upstate Eight Conference East Division finale over Glenbard South 25-21, 25-19 May 13. The feeling got a whole lot better shortly afterward. The Bulldogs learned that night that first-place Glenbard East had just lost to West Chicago 25-19, 25-14. As a result the Bulldogs share the conference title with those two teams, all with 5-1 records.
Bulldogs’ Eggers breaks 39-year school record for 400

3 weeks ago | rblandmark.com | Bill Stone

Riverside Brookfield High School senior Jorie Eggers needed a break from the 400-meter run during her 2024 girls track and field season. “I struggled with my confidence in running the 400 so I switched over to 300 (low) hurdles towards the end of the season,” Eggers responded. Eggers has returned to the 400 with a run for the ages May 1. Her second-place 59.95 seconds at the Oak Forest Invitational broke a 39-year school record.
Second chance for LTHS gymnasts with state berth

3 weeks ago | rblandmark.com | Bill Stone

Lyons Township High School junior TJ Carr and senior Jack Michaelson received the text from boys gymnastics coach Sam Zeman on Thursday morning still somewhat in disbelief. In roughly 14 hours, the Lions went from being the highest-scoring sectional team not to make the 10-team Illinois High School Gymnastics Coaches Association state meet to then the last team to advance for Saturday’s competition at Hoffman Estates. “It was a roller coaster,” Carr said. “(Michaelson and I) were sitting in class.
Graziano, Brown, Shell leave mark on LTHS badminton team

3 weeks ago | rblandmark.com | Bill Stone

Despite attending different schools for eighth grade, Lyons Township High School seniors Simone Brown, Mia Graziano and Audrey Shell still became acquainted just before entering high school. “The funny thing is we had a (world history) summer school class together before our freshman year,” Brown said.