Chasing babies around home
Four years ago, my friend Becky Wilcox became a mother on Mother's Day.

Rosary softball clinches SCC championship

Kyle Schalz tossed a one-hitter as Rosary captured the Suburban Catholic conference title with a 7-0 win over Aurora Central. Shalz finished with 15 strikeouts on the day for the Royals, now 13-10 overall and 12-2 in league play. Brenda Rocha paced Rosary at the plate with three RBIs, Jessica Fortier added two RBIs and Schalz had two hits.

Oswego, PFC tie for Southwest Prairie title

Oswego finished with four conference champions and tied Plainfield Central for first place with 26.5 points at the Southwest Prairie conference meet Saturday.

Headliners don't disappoint
One, two, three jump. Sounds easy. And it sure looked easy when she breezed through the 100-meter hurdles in a blistering 13.50 seconds, a personal record. But Natalie Tarter would be the first to tell you, it's anything but easy.

AU softball stays alive in NCAA tourney
The Aurora University Spartan softball team avenged two early season losses against North Central College Cardinals with an 8-0 victory in five innings in an elimination game at the 2008 NCAA Division III Softball Championships in Eau Claire, Wis.

Waubonsie's Zuponeck goes for triple crown
AURORA -- Jim Zuponeck has high aspirations.

Neuqua edges out Warriors for team title
STREAMWOOD -- A year after falling one point short of Waubonsie Valley for the Upstate Eight Conference outdoor track title, Neuqua found redemption.

Warriors' supporting cast shines while star is hurt
AURORA -- Just to get this out front, it's never a good thing to lose your leading scorer, like what happened to Waubonsie Valley with Vanessa DiBernardo.

West badminton players qualify for state
The West Aurora badminton team qualified one singles player and two doubles teams for next week's state tournament and placed second as a team at the Lockport Sectional with 11.5 points. Lockport won the team title with 16 points.

Cougars, Chiefs to play at Wrigley

The Peoria Chiefs and Kane County Cougars will play a regular season game at Wrigley Field at 7:05 p.m. Tuesday, July 29, believed to be the first minor league contest to take place at Wrigley in the ballpark’s 94-year history.

Crackel's big performance lifts Oswego baseball

Brad Crackel's huge day helped the Oswego East baseball team to a 3-0 Southwest Prairie Conference win over Morris on Wednesday.

Rival Neuqua sweeps Waubonsie in doubleheader

The Waubonsie IX
When the athletic class of 2008 at Waubonsie Valley officially calls it a career in the green and gold in a few months, history will be made as nine girls will continue playing at the Division I level in college.

Waubonsie's unbeaten streak up to 44 games
With a defensive back line made up of two freshmen and a senior in her first season as a starter, mistakes can be expected for Waubonsie Valley.

DiBernardo suffers injury, but Warriors get key UEC victory

AURORA -- On almost any other night, the goal Bri Rodriguez scored would have been the only thing people wanted to talk about today.

Bajkowski's goals ice victory for Panthers

With under 10 minutes to go in the second half, Oswego freshman midfielder Lisa Bajkowski launched a ball into the upper left corner of the goal from the top of the penalty box, breaking a 2-2 tie Tuesday against crosstown rival Oswego East.

AU alum warms up new baseball field
Cal Myers took a long look at Aurora University catcher Ray Kosmicki. Myers waved him a bit to the right; the catcher shifted his cleats slightly before Myers threw the ceremonial first pitch. About 50 baseball fans and local dignitaries gathered at Joe Bernard Field Tuesday afternoon to officially welcome Aurora University baseball to its new home field near Ohio Street and Solfisburg Avenue.

Waubonsie unbeaten streak up to 44 games
With a defensive back line made up of two freshmen and a senior in her first season as a starter, mistakes can be expected for Waubonsie Valley.

Batavia wins postponed Kane County meet

Batavia scored 106 points to win the girls' team title at the Kane County Track and Field Meet. West Aurora was second with 91.5 points, Geneva third (91 points), Kaneland fifth (62), Rosary 7th (43) and Aurora Christian 10th (one point).

Waubonsie starts slow, finishes slower
Neuqua Valley swept District 204 rival Waubonsie Valley in a doubleheader Saturday in Aurora, taking the first game 11-8 and the second 12-1.

Warriors top Neuqua, unbeaten streak hits 40
AURORA -- For anyone who might have heard a lot of laughter coming from the shed just outside the Waubonsie Valley soccer field at halftime Monday night, rest assured it was not at the expense of the Warriors' main rival Neuqua Valley.

Rivalry game goes to Oswego -- by a goal
OSWEGO -- It had all the makings of an unforgettable matchup between Oswego High School and crosstown rival Oswego East. The soccer pitch was the field of battle for girls soccer supremacy.

Benefit game for Northern about more than baseball
Forward, together forward.

Waubonsie rally falls short in late innings
ELGIN -- The offense for Waubonsie Valley's softball team was pretty quiet for the first five innings of Friday's Upstate Eight Conference game at Larkin.

Warriors put on clinic vs. Geneva
The Warrior Express rolls on. Playing with workmanlike efficiency, Waubonsie Valley remained unbeaten in the second round of the round-robin Naperville Invitational soccer tournament.

Warriors rally falls short in late innings

ELGIN -- The offense for Waubonsie Valley's softball team was pretty quiet for the first five innings of Friday's Upstate Eight Conference game at Larkin.

Another blowout victory for Waubonsie
Waubonsie Valley's Rachel Bostick and Bri Rodiguez were too much for Hinsdale Central as the Warriors rolled to a 5-0 win in the opening match of pool play at the 11th annual Naperville Invitational on Thursday evening.

Rosary's Schalz hurls second straight perfect game
Rosary pitcher Kylie Schalz threw here second straight perfect game as the Royals set down St. Francis, 8-0, in a Suburban Catholic conference softball game Wednesday. Schalz (3-2) struck out nine and also contributed two hits and two RBIs at the plate, while Colleen Van Bogaert homered and had three RBIs, Andi DeKing added two RBIs and Brenda Rocha banged out two hits.

Time to make high school baseball an autumn sport
High school baseball was rained out -- again -- late last week, and some coaches were worried there's not enough time to make them up. With so many washouts already and with the conference season in full swing, the number of open dates is running out.

Ahead of the pack
She's going places, but that's nothing new for Toni Ogundare.

sports briefs
Warriors' Einbecker sets school record in discus