Bolingbrook: September 2008 Archives

The Bolingbrook Trojans youth football club will hold its homecoming pep rally Thursday Sept. 25 at Bolingbrook High School in the field house from 6:30 till approx 8 pm.

The Trojans will play their homecoming games on Saturday at the Trojan field next to the Annerino Center in Bolingbrook. Games begin around 9 a.m.

Jeff Alcox reports that the Bolingbrook Trojans went 4-4 in the second week of the season.

Jr. Pee Wee Division 1 beat Naperville, 24-20
Jr. Pee Wee Division 2 beat Algonquin, 7-0
Jr. Pee Wee Division 3 lost to Darien, 27-6

Pee Wee Division 1 lost to Naperville, 13-0
Pee Wee Division 2 lost to Gilberts, 24-16

Jr. Midgets Division 1 lost to Naperville, 18-12
Jr. Midgets Division 2 beat Naperville, 6-0

Midgets beat Garfield Park, 35-0

Unlimited beat Maine Township, 36-6

Bolingbrook Hijinx will be a regular feature that tells you the blessed readers what I know about the sporting/entertainment/cheap meal situation in Bolingbrook.

1. Bolingbrook Buccaneers vs. Thunder, Saturday at 7 p.m.

My good friend Bolingbrook Buccaneers Minor League Mailbox sent me an e-mail on Tuesday.

The Buccaneers have a big weekend coming up. They will be playing the 3 time Mid States Football League Champion on Saturday night at Joliet Memorial Stadium. TTheir will be Live Half Time entertainment and for all the kids under 10 walking through the gate will receive a free Dinner coupon for Old Country Buffet.

Don't even try to get a coupon in you're 11.

The Buccaneers game with the Steel was rained on on Sept. 13, which meant both teams got a tie. That improved Bolingbrook's record to 0-6-2.

Tickets are $7 for adults, $5 for students with I.D. and kids 11 and up (again the 10-year-olds rule) and senior citizens are $4. Gates open at 5:30 p.m. Tailgating is encouraged permitted.

The Bolingbrook Golf Club will hold its 2008 club championship on Saturday.

Teeing off at 6:30 a.m., the event features players that have a verifiable USGA handicap index. The championship flight is limited to players with handicaps between 0 and 9.

Check back at The Brook Blog for all the winners.

IMSA diving coach Vicki Morrow reports that Bolingbrook residents and IMSA sophomores Amber Farrell and Brielle James won junior varsity competitions against Lemont and Bartlett, respectively, to open the season.

Farrell won against Lemont with a score of 102.55 while James won against Bartlett with a score of 93.05.

At the varsity level, another Bolingbrook resident, junior Danielle Strickland, placed third in both meets scoring over 25 points more than her best score from 2007.

It's good that we have this time to get to know each other while the wheels figure out how to get rolling. My name is Sean, and I'm a recovering sports journalist.

Hello Sean!

You guys surely know how to make a fella feel welcome. And it's only proper that I let you in off The Brook Blog's porch and through the screen door of this new and exciting venture. The Bolingbrook Sun is changing things up on Sept. 19 and delivering a new product that is more revlevant and more compelling.

What that means for us sports heads is this: what will be, will be in the print edition, and what was today will be on our Web site today and not at the end of the week. There's more to it than that, but that's a good jumping off point.