Chicago Public League Sports Blog

Simeon Crushes Morgan Park for CPS Baseball Title

Simeon 20 Morgan Park 9

Simeon jumped out to a 12-1 lead after 3 innings. Simeon wins a 2nd straight CPS baseball title. Last year Simeon won the triple crown of high school sports by winning the CPS football, basketball, and baseball titles. This year, the Wolverines took football and baseball. Ironically, they did not win it all in basketball- the sport which they are most known for.

CPS Baseball Semifinals

Morgan Park 3 Clemente 1
Morgan Park advances to the CPS title game for the first time in at least 20 years.

Simeon 10 Lane Tech 5
In this classic north side team vs south side battle, Simeon came up on top. The Simeon offense was helped by 6 Lane Tech errors. Simeon led 8-2 after 5 innings. Lane pulled to within 8-5 in the 6th but couldn't score after that. Simeon advances to the CPS championship game vs rival Morgan Park on Monday.

CPS baseball playoffs scores

Ace pitcher Jack McLaughlin(sr) pitched a complete game 4 hit 8 strikeout performance in a 5-3 Lane Tech win over Harlan. Lane Tech plays Simeon next in the semi-finals Friday. That is a rematch of last years title game won by Simeon.

Quarterfinals
Simeon 7 Washington 2
Lane Tech 5 Harlan 3

2nd round CPS Baseball Scoreboard

Harlan 8, Northside 7

 

Kenwood 13, Lincoln Park 6

 

Lane 9, Brooks 6

 

Morgan Park 5, Kennedy 1

Young 13, Solorio 3 (5 inn.)


Playoff Bracket

• #10 seed Northside Prep gave favored Harlan all it can handle in an 8-7 loss. Harlan plays Lane Tech next in the CPS quarterfinals.
• Morgan Park and Kenwood;  face each other in today's quarterfinals. No word yet on how Simeon and Clemente fared in their games.

1st round CPS baseball playoffs scores

Only surprise out of the first round was Solorio. #21 seed Solorio upset #12 seed Lake View a much more established program. Pictured above is Solorio pitcher Enrique Monzano(so) who pitched a complete game. Solorio faces Whitney Young next. bracket (FB photo)

Harlan 12, Urban Prep 0 (5 inn.)
Kenwood 14, Ag. Science 1 (5 inn.)
Lane Tech 14, Wells 0
Northside 12, Corliss 0 (5 inn.)
Solorio 6, Lake View 1
Taft 10, Prosser 3
Von Steuben 12, Perspectives-MSA 1 (5 inn.)
Young 12, Kelly 2 (6 inn.)

2013 CPS Baseball Playoffs Bracket

Thank you to a reader for emailing me (Publisher@LaneTechFan.com) a copy of this year's CPS playoff bracket (Click for larger picture):


Baseball playoffs started yesterday and run thru the week. Morgan Park is the #1 seed overall and Lane is #2. Wednesday Game should be at UIC and semis friday at the cell. Look for The final 8 to be Lane, Clemente, Young, Taft, Simeon, Morgan Park, Kenwood and Harlan. Taft could be your sleeper team knocking off Clemente during the season and having Lane down by 7 in the last inning only to give up the game.

Northside Prep, seeded #10, could give Lane Tech fits if they meet in the quarterfinals.

Some Notable Recent Scores

Boys Lacrosse
Whitney Young 9 Lane Tech 8
Upstart Whitney Young showed that there is a new power in the city, as the Dolphins beat Lane Tech for I believe the first time in boys lacrosse.

Baseball
Morgan Park 9 Simeon 7
Morgan Park takes the Jackie Robinson Conference lead with a 13-1 conference record. The Simeon Morgan Park rivalry goes beyond football and basketball.

Girls Softball
Lane Tech 11 Loyola 5
Any time a CPS school beats Loyola in almost any sport, it is news. Lane girls softball team beat Maine West earlier in the season and now Loyola. The Indians are seeded #4 in the upcoming Ressurection state sectional. That is one of the highest seedings I can remember for a CPS girls softball team.

Clemente and Simeon Lose Against CPS Baseball Foes

Lane Tech 6 Clemente 4
Whitney Young 5 Simeon 4

Clemente and Simeon came into the baseball season with the pre-season hype. Simeon is loaded with state and national prospects and started the season top 10 ranked in the area. Clemente is a baseball school who has their share of prospects.

Well, hype does not always lead to onfield wins as Lane and Whitney Young handed them losses. Rudy Vargas was 2-4 and had 3 rbi's in Lane's win. Jeff Fisher pitched a complete game in Whitney Young's 5-4 win over Simeon.

Simeon Tips Lane 2-1 for City Baseball Crown

Simeon 2 Lane Tech 1

Simeon won its first baseball city championship since 2004 with a 2-1 victory over Lane Tech at UIC. Simeon scored both of its runs in the first inning on two rbi doubles of off Lane Tech ace Jack McLaughlin. After that, McLaughlin settled down to pitch the next 5 innings of shut out ball.

Simeon pitcher Shane Brown was even more supurb as he went the entire game giving up only one run. Brown ended the game on a strikeout with Lane Tech runners on 2nd and 3rd.

Good game by both teams.

Simeon to face Lane Tech for city baseball title

Public League baseball semi-finals @US Cellular Field
Simeon 6 Clemente 3
Lane Tech 12 Harlan 8

One big inning was enough for Simeon to overtake a good Clemente team. The Simeon team sets up a match up between #1 Simeon and #2 Lane Tech for the city championship. Simeon is trying to get the title after getting upset by Harlan last year. Lane Tech, with a a new coach and a new attitude is trying to bring the title back to the north side. This is going to be truly a northside vs southside battle - and I'm not talking Cubs/Sox.