Top Teams Next Spring

As has always been their tradition, the Sun-Times will nominate Naperville Central, their Illinois State High School Tournament Champion, #1 in the spring.

Palatine High School of course

Brother Rice St. Rita Loyola 3 teams that are going to be tough next year

Lake Zurich, Prairie Ridge, Schaumburg, New Trier

Glenbrook North, Andrew

Teams in the Southwest Suburban Conferance. Too many to name. Maybe BTIL can help me out. Hopefully the IHSA will distribute them in to several different sectionals versus just one or two. But I understand that they would not want an all SWSC final four.

CARY-GROVE

A few teams that I saw this summer that will be tough:

Lyons Township, Loyola, Andrew, Downers Grove South, St. Rita

My guess is Palatine, lyons, grayslake,
andrews. cg3 how do you think your pitching will be next year?

Hey playball2... Will Prairie Ridge still be one of the top teams without Pecoraro? Also, they lost 2 of 3 starting outfielders, 3 of 4 starting infielders and 2 of their top 3 starting pitchers. They have a good Junior class, but no senior class.

2bagger, our pitching is what is gonna make or break us this yr. We lost our 1 and 2 from last year. During the summer the pitching was decent, but we are lacking experience with only one senior. If that goes well, we definitely won't have a problem scoring runs, and we have 6 starters returning from last years super sectional team.

Prairie Ridge will lack senior leadership, in the past thats were Coach Pec did his best work, leading. Potentially one of the best underclasses in the state. Cary Grove will need to swing the bats and play great defense, both attributes they have the potential to do and have done over the course of Coach Sutherlands tenure. The FVC could be interesting, especially with the likes of Grayslake Central.

I would nominate Oak Park and as a dark sleeper York.

I nominate just about the whole MSL West.

Don't count out St. Charles East or St. Charles North plus Lake Park and Neuqua Valley. The Upstate Eight will be very solid next year

who is all in the MSL West??

Palatine (Biela, Huenecke), Schaumburg (Monroe, Mistrata Brothers), Fremd (Gailey, etc.) Conant (Wright), Barrington (Hall, etc.) and Hoffman Estates.

MSL East isn't too shabby either.

I could think of a few teams out of the East Suburban Catholic

Fastball dad, nice job doing your homework. The MSL West will be a bear this year.

Grayslake Central and Palatine should both be pretty good along with Schaumburg and Rockford Boylan.

The msl west will be tough. 4 out of 6 teams will have their number 1 back, Huenecke, Gailey, Wright and Monroe. In addition conant will also have last years number 2 back in Josh Finnis along with a very fast lead-off hitter in Lainge. Scaumburg has one of the best young catchers in D'agata, great arm. Palatine has a very good 3b and 2b treutler and allen returning along with maybe the best cf in the state in Biela. They also have a very good catcher in reynolds. Not too sure who plays the infield for shs or conant. Should be a tough conference. On the other side I would look for BG or prospect. Bg has Godowa as a number one on the hill and can also play outfield or infield and singleton should be back healthy this year.

New Trier looks to be very, very good.

Rockford Boylan will be very tough all around with a lot back from last year. Jake Smolinski is probably the best all around player in the state, and he can pitch a little bit too. Lyons is always tough, St. Rita has a couple of big tough pitchers, Palatine has a lot coming back, New Trier, Grayslake and Naperville Central again. Prairie Ridge will also be good, but is probably a year away.

In our area, O'Fallon and Edwardsville will again be very good. Name any Belleville school and you can bet that they will have a lot of talent. How far will Belleville West make it with Flannigan? Who knows but they are stacked. Jake Odorizzi, of Highland will make that team very good. He can bring the heat. Waterloo, in our conference as well as Highland, should be considered the favorite.

FYI, we are working with Edwardsville in an attempt to play our game at Grizzlie Stadium. This has been the site of our supersectional games and so, it would be great for our kids to play there. If you aren't aware of it, our games can generate huge crowds. I don't know the magnitude of large draws in the Chicagoland area but this game, I'm sure, would be comporable to any gate up there. I hope we can pull this off!

Doesn't this sound like a broken record. It seems I make the same post each year.

A couple of these teams are in the Schaumburg Classic... We should have a great tournament on our hands... Watch out for Clemente... A sleeper coming out of the Chicago Public League

have the teams for the flyers classic been released yet? is naperville central in it this year?

Fungo-
NCHS is not in it this year. I forget all the teams but there is a thread that names who is in it.

Game#1 4:30pm Schaumburg vs. Grayslake Central
Game#2 7:00pm St. Charles North vs. St. Rita
Game#3 3:00pm H.D. Jacobs vs. Mt. Carmel
Game#4 5:30pm Lake Zurich vs. Clemente

thanks for that info. don't know how I missed it.

My 5 picks.... New Trier, Rockford Boylan, Palatine, O'Fallon, and Fremd

Lake Zurich may make some serious noise. With a #1,#2, & #3 (Porter/Vice/Laplume), all seniors, throwing 93, 89, 88, and a junior class that only lost 3 games in the last two years, it should be interesting.

Fremd????, After Gailey where is that team going?

Evanston...the team to watch in the CSL-South

Eddie Toledo is one heck of a coach and he will have Evanston in contention from here on out.

With Sweaty focusing on life in the MVC, do you think it's safe to talk about the West Suburban Conference outlook for this spring?


With lots of talent having graduated, it should be pretty interesting to see who steps up.

Being from Downers Grove, I'm going to say that DGN wins the Silver division and DGS wins the Gold division, but I am admittedly biased.

Mike F

St. Charles Noth!!! hands down. Sam Weinberg, Jake Thornton, Brian De La Torriente, Danny Jimmenez are all juniors that are ranked in state as top 60 juniors.

new trier this year could make some noise. there are 6 returning starters that made it to the sweet 16 last year. They have 3 D1 pitchers already signed and Frahler still hasn't decided whether to play baseball or football D1.

Watch out for Lake Park.Seniors Sawicki,Lange, Busse and Junior Fearon anchoring a team with strong pitching this year.

Evanston!!!!!?????? They will finish 4th in the CSL South behind New Trier, GBS and maine South.