Jon J. Kerr

Oakton baseball regroups for 2021 after coronavirus pandemic cancels promising season

May 3, 2020 at 6:52 p.m.

Bill Fratto entered his 15th season as the Oakton Community College baseball coach this spring with an optimistic frame of mind. Two years removed from a National Junior College Athletic...

Lake County goalie Owen Flores picked to play elite junior hockey in Canada

May 8, 2020 at 4:55 p.m.

For the 11 years that Owen Flores has played hockey, he mostly has stayed close to home. Flores, an Antioch sophomore, usually plays on rinks in Vernon Hills and Palatine...

Warren's Dru Jasnoch delivers a pitch during a game against Libertyville in Gurnee on Monday, April 8, 2019.

With 18 seniors among them, Warren baseball players hope their story gets an ending this summer: ‘We’re trying to look forward and not dwell on what’s been canceled.’

April 27, 2020 at 4:03 p.m.

Tasked with a research project for school, Warren senior pitcher Reece Lawler skimmed through photos stored on his computer. What Lawler found were pictures of him and other kids in...

Deerfield graduate Duje Dukan is playing in his second straight Final Four on Saturday with Wisconsin.

Change of plans: International basketball players come home amid coronavirus pandemic

April 14, 2020 at 8:28 p.m.

For more than six months, Duje Dukan played basketball in front of thousands of fans for one of the most popular professional teams in Spain, CB Estudiantes. Dukan, a 2010...

Lakes High School junior Collin Kao, who competes in the pole vault, runs sprints on the school's deserted track on Saturday, April 4, 2018.

Lake County residents continue to go outside to run, that most basic athletic activity still allowed during the pandemic: ‘There are so many people out on the trails.’

April 9, 2020 at 8:58 p.m.

Two times a week, members of the Grayslake Running Club would take part in activities they most love doing: running and eating. The runs might be a few miles on...

After hitting .344 in three minor league stops during his first pro season, Libertyville graduate Jimmy Govern ‘was pumped’ about a new year in the Royals’ system

April 3, 2020 at 4:10 p.m.

In early March, Jimmy Govern was exactly where he wanted to be, doing exactly what he wanted to be doing. The Libertyville graduate was living the life of a professional...

Warren's Reece Lawler pitches against Buffalo Grove in a Class 3A St. Viator Sectional semifinal on Thursday, May 31, 2018.

After Warren’s Reece Lawler signed with Iowa, chatter about the NCAA granting additional eligibility to spring athletes caused concern for incoming freshmen: ‘We didn’t know what was going to happen.’

March 31, 2020 at 4:31 p.m.

Four months after signing a national letter of intent to play baseball at Iowa, Warren senior Reece Lawler suddenly had doubts in March. But for Lawler, a right-hander who had...

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