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Boxer Duarn "The Storm" Vue is interviewed by local media about his UBF US-Midwest super featherweight title. ABO Pro boxing expo at the Round Lake Beach Sports Center.

Juan Curiel brings boxing expo, amateur show to Round Lake Beach

June 16, 2018 at 4:30 p.m.

Fourteen-year-old Leslie Gamboa of Round Lake Beach may not have made boxing history, but now she is the answer to a local trivia question regarding the HACP youth program. Which...

Lake Forest's Veronica Giordano (4) tries to get past Lake Forest Academy's Brianna Sturkey (22).

Lake Forest Academy rallies past Lake Forest in girls basketball

June 16, 2018 at 4:44 p.m.

The good news? The Lake Forest Academy girls basketball team won its season opener Monday, beating Lake Forest 54-38 on Day 1 of a tournament hosted by Vernon Hills. The...

North Chicago's Terrell Grier (left) and Simeon Henton talk just before the first day of practice Monday night at the school.

North Chicago coach King Coleman believes he has a 3A contender

June 16, 2018 at 4:47 p.m.

The good news is that the talent level in the gym for North Chicago's first basketball practice last week was more than enough to win Class 3A regional and sectional...

Libertyville coach Mike Jones during their football playoff game against Normal at Libertyville, November 14, 2015. (Michael Schmidt/For The Lake County News-Sun)

Northwestern recruit Riley Lees does it all for Libertyville

June 16, 2018 at 4:30 p.m.

The 0:00 that lit up the scoreboard at the end of Saturday's Class 7A quarterfinal represented two things besides another Libertyville football victory. For one, it signified the amount of...

Ron Ashlaw’s back as coach and Waukegan is upbeat

June 16, 2018 at 4:48 p.m.

The first official day of boys basketball practice at Waukegan under new/old coach Ron Ashlaw: What did it feel like? Best guess is that it felt exactly the way the...

Near-miss for Grayslake North against Riverside-Brookfield in playoffs

June 16, 2018 at 4:48 p.m.

Say this for Grayslake North's football team: The Knights never gave up, and their coach, Steve Wood, left nothing on the bus. Grayslake North did everything it could, but the...

Prairie Ridge's Austen Ferbet (80) makes a catch in front of Lake Forest's Chase Horvat (20).

Cole Brown’s three touchdowns lead Prairie Ridge past Lake Forest

June 16, 2018 at 5:11 p.m.

Facing an opponent against which there was no margin for error, Lake Forest wrote much of the story of Friday's Class 6A playoff game at Prairie Ridge outside the margins....

Ashley Reiser hits a left-handed layup during a summer practice. The junior is one of Lake County's top returning players.

Antioch has the look of a contender in Class 3A girls basketball

June 16, 2018 at 4:58 p.m.

In early March, Montini beat Antioch 61-44 in the Class 3A supersectional at Hoffman Estates to earn its seventh trip to the state tournament in Normal in the eight-year history...

Bronson Watson (99) of Grayslake North sacks Hubbard's Levon Cathothers last Saturday.

Grayslake North football fans can make a Knight of it on Saturday

June 17, 2018 at 9:27 a.m.

Should the weather cooperate, Grayslake North football fans really could make quite a day of it Saturday. Brookfield Zoo opens at 10 a.m., meaning a couple hours of family time...

If Lake Forest is going to beat Prairie Ridge on Friday, the Scouts will have to establish the ground game. Dan Carollo hands off to Quinn Julian during a win at Lake Zurich last month.

Lake Forest’s next playoff foe is one of state’s highest-scoring teams

June 16, 2018 at 5:25 p.m.

Out of sight, but no longer out of mind. One of the things that playoff football does is bring together programs that otherwise would never be on the same field...

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