Local Sports

There weren't a lot of smiles the last time Morgan Mammosser took to the basketball court to play for her uncle Craig. On Thursday, expect many, many more.

Zack Everett isn't afraid of hard work. Everett had to work for everything he got on the basketball court, and he's planning on a career that will surely be filled with heaps of hard work.

Drive to Naperville. Present to the Illinois State Board of Education in the hopes of improving studens' academic prospects for years to come. Drive back to Dixon. Perform in the SVM All-Star Classic.

There's no debating how hard Kaiti Mathey works. But the Thomson native's ability to also work smart is a big reason she was named an NJCAA All-American in both academics and softball.

The first In Tune with June track and field event will be held Saturday at Sterling High School.

Aspiring physicians have their reasons for getting into their demanding line of work. Perhaps they were ill as a child, and are motivated to keep others from being in their situation. Or maybe they had a family member who was sick, and being in hospitals is just a natural way of life.

Reilly Roberts is inspired. The Amboy graduate is moved by artists like Michael Buble and Adele. Classical stalwarts Haydn and Mozart are also regulars in her iPod rotation.

Rene Valdez preached a family atmosphere as head coach of the Sauk Valley Community College baseball team.

Chad Fenwick looks like he should be on a football field rather than a tennis court. Not so many years ago, the sturdily built 1994 Dixon High School graduate stepped away from tennis to give football another crack. He wound up starting at defensive tackle at the University of Dubuque (Iowa).

As he sat at the varsity baseball diamond at Gartner Park on Wednesday afternoon, Sterling graduate Tanner Morse was exactly where his baseball coach had told him he might be 3 months earlier. At the start of the season, Golden Warriors coach Robbie Minor – SVM's 2003 player of the year – told his standout shortstop/pitcher that he, too, could earn the award if Morse had the season he knew Morse was capable of.

There are at least two good reasons to explain those flecks of gray dotting the otherwise black mane of Adam Albrecht.

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This Yasiel Puig character's pretty good, huh? I think Charlie Steiner said it best during a recent broadcast.

There are really two sides of fishing – the relaxing side, and the serious, just-got-to-have-it, I'm-gonna-slam-'em side

It’s only been a week, but is anyone else starting to miss high school sports?