Joe Aguilar

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CRYSTAL LAKE – Aptly named Anna Starr padded her Crystal Lake Central co-op career-record goal total, which surpassed a staggering 200 during the week. The final one the junior lacrosse star fired home Friday night was maybe her best yet. Starr’s fifth goal of the game and 205th of her career came 1:02 into overtime, lifting United to a 12-11 win over Huntley in a seesaw battle that was played on slippery grass due to the recent rain.

1 week ago | shawlocal.com | Joe Aguilar

CRYSTAL LAKE – Gabriel Porter never flinched during the chaos, barely broke stride and almost stole three bases on one play. OK, so the speedy Prairie Ridge senior was tagged out at home plate to end the bottom of the fourth on a wacky play, thanks only to a heads-up play by Hampshire first baseman Anthony Karbowski. What mattered most for the host Wolves was that they didn’t let the potential momentum-changer derail their winning ways.

1 week ago | shawlocal.com | Joe Aguilar

Zach Hultgren, Burlington Central’s 6-foot-5, 285-pound offensive tackle, suspects he would get beat by a swim move. His little sister’s. “I don’t like to give my siblings too much confidence,” Hultgren said laughing. “But I would get destroyed swimming against her.”Fortunately for Central’s “Incredible Hult,” swimming against his eighth-grade sister, Eleanor, is not something he has to worry about.

1 week ago | shawlocal.com | Joe Aguilar

WOODSTOCK – His name suggests he is destined for bright lights and a marquee. Richmond-Burton sophomore baseball player Grayson Morningstar said Harvard’s PA announcer had fun saying his name Saturday when the Rockets played a Kishwaukee River Conference doubleheader. How could anyone not enjoy saying the name Grayson Morningstar? “People like it.

1 week ago | shawlocal.com | Joe Aguilar

The more the ballplayer dressed in banker clothes analyzed the situation, the tougher the decision became, until it suddenly was a no-brainer. Don’t get Kyle Williams wrong. As a commercial banker, he enjoyed making informed trading decisions and generating profits for his employer and clients. It’s just ... he would rather make baseball decisions and focus on trying to generate success for young ballplayers. He just sought a change of scenery, a dugout instead of a desk.