Chicago Public League Sports Blog

Kelly Upsets Lane for the City Soccer Title

Kelly 2 Lane Tech 1

Tied 1-1 at the half, it was anyone's game in the 2nd half. Kelly's Omar Guzman scored the winning goal in the 66th minute. Meanwhile on the other side of the field Kelly goal keeper Allesandro Juarez stopped a couple good scoring opportunties for Lane including two point blank shots near the end of the first quarter.

Lane dominated the time of possession of this game and had their opportunities to score. But Kelly, didi what it took on both sides of the ball to come up with the upset win over previously unbeaten on the field Lane Tech. This is Lane's 2nd straight loss in the city championship. Both by one goal margins.

Kelly a #12 seed in the state series next week has a tough opening round game versus Hinsdale Central.

Lane Tech a #4 seed, plays Niles West at New Trier next Tuesday.

 

Lane, Kelly Advance to CPS Soccer Finals

Public League semifinals
Kelly 1, Mather 0

Lane 3, Lakeview 0
Jose Fuentes scored 2 goals for Lane (11-0-4).

These two CPS powers did not face each other during the regular season because of the teachers strike. We'll find out on the field this Thursday at UIC who is better. Lane Kelly CPS Soccer Finals Thursday, UIC.

CPS Chess Championship- Complete Results

Kelly (left) vs Lane Tech in round 3 action. Lane took this match up 45-23. To the left is Kelly's Lauro Navo of Kelly. Kelly came up with the win over Lane Tech's Danny Feng. Navo ended up as a suprise 2nd place finisher for all board #1's.

CPS Chess Championship- 2012 Complete Results

Team Results
1. Northside
2. Whitney Young
3. Lane Tech
4. Lincoln Park
5. Jones
6. Kelly
7. Lake View
8. Marshall
9. Hubbard
10. Ace Tech
11. King
12. Noble Street

Board 1 Individual Champion
1. Sam Schmakel(so)- Whitney Young

Board 2 Individual Champion
1. Christian Kavouras(so)- Northside Prep

St. Ignatius Sectional....Part 1

Distance runner Enrique Florentino(jr) of Kelly.

Class 3A Boys Track Sectional at St.Ignatius
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Schools:
Burbank (Reavis)
Burbank (St. Laurence)
Chicago (Austin Polytechnic) [Coop]
Chicago (C. Vocational)
Chicago (Curie)
Chicago (De La Salle)
Chicago (Dunbar)
Chicago (DuSable)
Chicago (Gage Park)
Chicago (Hubbard)
Chicago (Hyde Park)
Chicago (Kelly)
Chicago (Kennedy)
Chicago (Mt. Carmel)
Chicago (Noble Street Charter/C. Bulls)
Chicago (Noble Street Charter/Muchin)
Chicago (Simeon)
Chicago (St. Ignatius College Prep)
Chicago (St. Rita)
Chicago (Urban Prep Charter)
Chicago (Westinghouse College Prep)
Chicago (Whitney Young)
Oak Park (Fenwick)
Oak Park (O.P.-River Forest)

Westinghouse, Urban Prep, Chicago Bulls, Hubbard, Gage Park, Austin

None of these schools have any kind of realistic chances to advance someone to state. For these schools it is all about evaluating individuals. Westinghouse and the Chicago Bulls have been moved up to class 3A because of the multipler. They are both new schools and have only freshman and sophomores on the roster. Carlos Singleton(so) is a sprinter on the rise in the CPS. Westinghouse decided to run him at the varsity level at city where he finished with the 13th fastest time in the 100 at prelims with a time of 11.36. Also look out for Lazyrick Middlebrooks(so) of the Chicago Bulls College Prep. Middlebrooks finished 2nd in the 400 meter at the city frosh-soph championship with a time of 52.09. That is the 2nd fastest time for any frosh-soph runner in the CPS this year.

Kennedy, Kelly, and Curie

In my opinion, these 3 schools have so much potential. They are all schools with large enrollments but for some reason have not maximized what they could do in track in the past. But things seem to be changing at these 3 southwest side schools.

Kennedy
Kennedy has a pair of rapidly improving distance runners in Alex Meza(jr) and Christopher Salcedo(jr). Meza ran a 10:33 3200 meter run to place 11th in the city. He also placed 11th in the city in the 1600 meter run. Salcedo ran a 4:57 mile at city. I'd like to see some continued improvement out of those two at sectionals. Kennedy could also stack up their 4x800 meter run. They ran an 8:43 earlier this year and are capable of an 8:30 type performance.

Kelly
For some reason top distance runner Enrique Florentino(jr) was a DNS at city. Kelly also has a couple promising athletes in Matthew Figueroa(fr), Hernan Mendoza(jr), and Vidal Thomas(jr). Mendoza is a 2:09 800 meter runner. Thomas placed 6th in the city with a 20-6 leap.  I know these are not eye popping numbers, but for Kelly it is good for their future.

Curie
Curie has too many athletes from its football team to stay down for long. Top sprinter is Maurice Fleming(jr), Curie's starting QB and a top rated college football prospect. City shot put champion Vaugh King(jr) has come on strong lately and threw a 47-1 to win the city shot put title. Jorge Rodriguez's(fr) 2:09 in the 800 at city prelims was the fastest open 800 time for a CPS freshman this season.

Part 2 coming soon...

Frosh-Soph City Prelims Week

The CPS Frosh-Soph Championship is a time for athletes to make a name for themselves. Pictured above is freshman sprinter Mario Gardner(fr) from Kelly. Gardner the starting running back on the Kelly frosh-soph football team hopes to add a sprint component to the Kelly team.

Boys Sophomore Championship/ Trials

Saturday, April 30, 2011
Hanson Stadium
Field Events Start: 1:30pm  Track Events Start: tba

Last year, due to budget reason the CPS did not have a frosh-soph city championship. Instead, they only held a freshman only city championship. So this is the first time since 2009 that the CPS held a frosh-soph city championship. In 2009, Harlan took the title.

It is hard to determine who will be the favorite to win the title until the entries are officially in. This is because some schools will choose to run some of their top freshman and sophomores up at the varsity level. In the days leading up to the prelims, I'll do my best to give you my take.

Without anlayzing it too much, it looks like you will see some of the usual players in the mix for the top two spots: Lane, Mather, and Whitney Young. It is  too early to determine how Morgan Park and Simeon will fare because their frosh-soph runners do not have too many published results. Two teams that could spoil the party for some of the traditional powers could be Brooks and Westinghouse.

More on the frosh-soph prelims coming soon...

CPS Indoors - Group B

Enrique Florentino (jr) - of Kelly should dominate the 800 and the 1600. The main focus will be on the sprints with class 2A schools Kelvyn Park, Orr, North Lawndale, and Morgan Park running it's best runners against each other. All the winners in sprint events could be early favorites to make it downs state in class 2A.

Official Teams: Brooks, Lincoln Park, DuSable, Corliss, North Lawndale, Orr, Marshall, Morgan Park, Kelly, Von Steuben, North Lawndale

Key Events and who to look out for

High Jump - Joshua Fikes - Morgan Park
Long Jump - Carl Young (so)- Orr
55 meter dash - Brian Carter (jr)- Kelvyn Park, Joshua Cannon (sr) - North Lawndale, Christopher Dolton - Morgan Park, Carl Young (so) - Orr, Denzell Castine - Corliss
800 meter run -  Enrique Florentino - Kelly, Daniel Medrano (so)- Brooks,
400 meter run - Victor Medina (sr) - Kelvyn Park, Byron Kelly (so)- Brooks, Michael Gulan - Von Steuben, DeShaun Jordan(so)- North Lawndale
200 meter dash - Jamal McNeeley (so) Kelvyn Park, Deshaun Jordan(so)- North Lawndale, Christopher Dalton- Morgan Park

DeLaSalle Presidents Day Invite

The scene at DeLaSalle's beutiful multi-use field house with 160 meter track. East St. Louis, DeLaSalle, Metea Valley, Kennedy, Hyde Park, Harper, Robeson, Hubbard, Fenwick, Dunbar, Corliss, Kelly, and Foreman traveled to the south side on a holiday to run in this well organized meet.

Enrique Florentino(jr) of Kelly started out the day well for the CPS with a 3rd place finish in the 1600 meter run with a personal record of 4:51. Florentino, who does not run cross country in the fall because he plays football has asserted himself as a distance threat in the CPS.

Duwane Pipkins (sr-left) of Robeson- chases down East St. Louis in the 4x400 meter run. Robeson, the relay school won the event in a CPS season best unofficial time of 3:42.

Robeson looked the strongest out of the CPS teams. Robeson has a strong stockpile 400 type runners including promising sprinter Devon Robinson (so) above. Robinson, a sophomore, as you can see is very powerfully built (of course he plays football) took 4th in the 55 meter dash in a hand time of 6.65. Robeson to me looks like one of the top class AA CPS teams.

more coming soon...

 

Schneiderless Lane Team Breezes by Kelly 44-19

Lane 44 Kelly 19
Lane 81 Brooks 0
Kelly 65 Brooks 18

Matt Finnegan (sr, 130lb) and Lane Tech won the first 7 matches as Lane went on to take 10 of 14 bouts against Kelly. Lane won city last year and Kelly was second.

Winners by Lane
Danny Carlson(fr), 103lbs
Hiathem Hamdan, 135lbs
Matthew Finnegan, 130lbs
Johnny McCarthy (so), 112lbs
Tommy Angsten, 119lbs
Kris Adams, 125lbs
Joey Rialmo, 140lbs
Ryan Pozniak, 171lbs
Chase Wilson, 160lbs (won by forfeit)
Dan Murray, 215lbs (won by forefeit)

Winners by Kelly
Miguel Ornales, 145lbs
Angel Hernandez, 152lbs
Dennis Flynn, 189lbs
Pedro Martinez, 285lbs

Lane avenged last year's dual lost to Kelly. They did it without state champion Max Schneider, who is out with a shoulder injury.

Big test for Lane's competitors

City runner-up Kelly, from the southwest side travels to Lane this Thursday.

Big week this week for Lane's wrestling competitors.

This Tues, Jan 4th,2011 Mather travels to Lane at 4:00pm.
Mather is Lane's closests thing to a north side rival. Mather has Tarik Estrada(sr)(4th in the city at 145lbs last year) and state qualifier Niko Liotta (sr). We will find out who else they have.

Then this Friday Kelly and Brooks wrestle at Lane (4:00pm)for a Triangular Meet.
Kelly has actually beaten Lane in dual meets in the past and as recent as 2009 won the city championship. Kelly took 2nd last year so they are dangerous.

Meanwhile, Lane has been on a complete roll this year. Their last result was an impressive 2nd place finish at the Lincoln Tournament last week. Although, the health status of defending state champion Max Schneider is not known. We do know he hurt his shoulder at Lincoln.

 

 

Lane 64 Kelly 61 - Lane escapes with win as Dillan's 3 pointer sends Lane to OT

Much thanks to the following post by Lane Tech basketball player Matt Villanueva (sr- guard)

Matt Villanueva Wednesday December 8th Lane 64 Kelly 61 Heading in to the game, our heads were not in the right place. We were looking ahead of this game to our first conference game against Uplift. We got off to a good start with a layup by Senior Guard John Cook and a three by myself ( a senior guard). Everything was going as planned until Kelly quickly answered back with two jumpshots by Hector Cervantes. We seemed to not be focused and allowed Kelly to get a 12 point halftime lead led by Hector. The second half was a different story, We got refocused and making cuts into the lead just to be answered by Kelly's open looks. At the start of the fourth, we were down 10. Our stifling zone press led by Senior guard Eric Butler (4 steals) allowed us to get 8 straight points cutting the lead to two. Cervantes had answers to every one of our runs and had Kelly in a spot to win with a four pout lead with. 30 seconds left. With a chance to put Kelly up by 5 with under 30 seconds, he missed a free throw. On the next possesion, Davielle Phillips (junior forward) drove to the basket to make a nice contested layup to cut it to three. Dillon's heorics A turnover by Kelly gave Lane the chance to tie it with under 10 seconds left. With the clock winding down, John Cook gave the ball to our bestshooter, Dillan Torres ( senior starting point guard). Dillan got trapped in the corner forcing him to heave a heavily contested three... and made it. OVERTIME In overtime, strong defense on Kelly's best player, (Cervantes) sealed the deal for us to get the 3 point win.