Youth Sports - The Beacon News - Aurora (IL)

Hockey The Cyclones Pee Wee Gold A won the Great Lakes Tournament in Holland, Mich. with a 4-0 record. The team is 22-11-5 overall.Teddy Dushkin pitched a shutout in a 5-0 victory over the Muskegon Chiefs in the opener. Jimmy Albrecht had a three goal hat trick with Mike Boyle and Mike Sinn adding the other goals. Assists were carded by Sinn, Matt Sprengel (4), Brooks Young, Sprengel and Jon Craig. The Cyclones defense, led by Brooks Young, Brett Blondin and Matt Galardini, held the Chiefs to eight shots.

Goals by Craig, Sinn, Blondin and Michael O'Connell carried the Cyclones to a 4-2 win over the Rockford (Mich.) Rams. O'Connell and Albrecht added assists.

The Cylones rallied from a 2-0 deficit to edge the Ice Cats from Novi (Mich.), 3-2. Matt Sprengel scored the game-winner with an empty net goal after the Ice Cats pulled their goalie. O'Connell scored the other two goals with assists from Tyler Kling, Craig and Albrecht.

In the championship game, goals by Boyle, Blondin, Sinn led the team to a 4-3 victory over the Rams. Assists were added by Craig, John McSpadden, tournament MVP O'Connell, Sprengel, Will Sterne and Blondin. The defense of Trent James and Galardini helped goalie Brendon Mayes keep the Rams from the tying goal over the final nine minutes.

Basketball St. Joseph's 8th grade boys defeated Holy Angels Green, 34-10. Frankie Avalos started the Hillmen's scoring and contributed four points. Javi Salinas, Emilio Alvarez and Danny Bieritz each had six points. Kevin Mathew and Shaun Collins contributed three points while Andrew Blatner and Tony Karafiat each had two points.

St. Joseph's 7th grade White team was defeated by OLGC, 53-15, in the 7th grade tournament. Mark Werrline scored seven points, Bobby Grissom had six and Kevin Myles had two points. In the first round of consolation play, St. Joe's White fell 35-19 to St. Rita. Werrline had seven points. Kevin Knisley and Grissom each had four points. Kevin Myles had three points and Craig Reinert added one point. In the last game of consolation play St. Joseph's White defeated Annunciation White, 20-18. Grissom and Knisley were high scorers with six each. Werrline had five points and Reinert had three points. St. Joe's defeated Holy Angels, 36-27, to reach the double elimination tournament. Werrline lead the way with 20 points. Reinert and Mike Garza each had six points. Grissom and Myles each had two points.

St. Joseph's Blue lost to Annunciation Blue, 39-26, in the second tournament game. Mark Adams had eight points, Jeremiah Lipford added seven, Armando Hermosillo six had 6, Danny White and Carlos Ramirez each had two and Adam Blatner contributed one point. The Blue team finished 4th in the league after falling to Holy Angels. Adams had 15 points, Hermosillo and Lipford each scored nine and Carlos Ramirez added four.

Lipford scored a season-high 24 points in a 51-31 victory over St. Mary's of Plano. Adams had nine points, Hermosillo six, Blatner four, Ryan Lutz three, and Daniel Cardona and Ramirez two each. White also added a free throw.

Michael Brown scored 18 points and pulled down seven rebounds, Manny Juarez added seven points and five rebounds, Robert Rodriguez hit for six points and Lee Hinterlong added four points as Annunciation Blue defeated St. Joe's A, 39-26, in the 7th grade tournament.

OLGC won the championship with a 39-33 victory over Annunciation. Brown had 15 points and 23 rebounds, Juarez added 12 points and seven rebounds and both Rodriguez and Hinterlong contributed four points and three rebounds.

In eight grade play, St. Joseph's defeated St. Peter's, 57-23. Collins had 19 points (including 3 3-point shots), Danny Bieritz had eight points, Andrew Blatner and Doug Banks each had six, Kevin Mathew, Frankie Avalos, Emilio Alvarez, and Javi Salinas all added four points, Tony Karafiat had three and Jim Gaddis two.

Collins tossed in 23 points as St. Joe's defeated St. Mary's of Plano, 48-34. Bieritz (9), Salinas (7), Blatner (5), Doug Banks (2) and Alvarez (2) also contributed.

After losing to St. Peter's of Geneva, 51-37, St. Joseph rebounded to win the Consolation Championship in the Elgin St. Joe's Tournament. Collins (16 points)a and Bieritz (13) led the way against Geneva. The Hillmen then defeated Elgin St. Laurence, 51-34, with Collins getting 22 points, Bieritz and Alvarez 12 each, Mathew and Banks four each and Karafiat, Gaddis, Blatner and Avalos two points each.

Alex McGrath scored 23 points, Peter Ahrens added 14, Josh Boyd eight, Colin Lohenry five, Keegan Lohenry four, Thomas Ritchie two and Joel Carlson one as the Crossroads Crusaders freshmen stopped Maranatha, 57-45. The Crusaders also defeated Somonauk, 33-26. Ahrens had 14 points and five rebounds while Erik Akre (2 points), Joel Carlson (3 points), Keegan Lohenry (2 points, 4 rebounds), Alex McGrath (9 points, 7 rebounds, 9 blocked shots), Boyd (3 points, 5 assists) and Colin Lohenry (5 rebounds) also played well.

Crossroads defeated Elgin Academy, 49-12 as Ahrens had 10 points to go with five rebounds. McGrath scored 17 points, Carlson added nine, Colin Lohenry four, Boyd four, John Martin two and Chris Leach three. Keegan Lohenry pulled down three rebounds.

In the Aurora Catholic League 5th grade tournament, Holy Angels defeated St. Riata, 38-10, to win the championship Chistopher Hickson scored 20 points and pulled down 15 rebounds for Holy Angels while Sam Duffield added 10 points and Alex Schaefer six.

Holy Angels advanced to the title game with a 25-14 win over Annunciation White with Hickson scoring 13 points and hauling in 12 rebounds, Schaefer adding six points and Jack Rickert four.

Schaefer scored 13 points and grabbed 12 rebounds in a 27-14 semifinal win over St. Mary's of Plano. Thomas Myers added six points, Chris Soris and Hickson three each.

Holy Angels finished 8-1 for the season and tied Holy Angels Gold for the league championship. The team was coached by Gary Soris and Brian Schaefer. Also playing on the team were Tim Riebock, Casey White and Kevin Filip. Wrestling The Oswego Wrestling Club competed in the Blackhawk Wrestling Club Classic with Max Larsen, Colin Griffin and Luke Gruszka all taking first places in 8-under. Austin Sheldon finished fourth in the junior division , Brandon Griffin finished first in the novice division with Travis Hoffman second and John Dibuono third and Devin Larsen finished first in the senior division.

Announcements The Aurora Flyers indoor track and field practice has started. Anyone interested in joining the club is welcome. Cost is $50 per family. Practices are held at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday at Eola community Center in Aurora. Feel free to come by and check it out. Track meets are every Saturday. Ages 6-18 are welcome. Any questions call Rod or De at 630-236-7558 or email rpinnick@auroraflyers.com.