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Neuqua cracks top 10; Central is out

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on April 15, 2008 12:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

A championship at the Streamwood tournament on Saturday, which included a second win over St. Francis, got Neuqua Valley into the Chicago Sun-Times boys volleyball Top 10 rankings for the first time this season.

The Wildcats, which have lost only to No. 4 Glenbard East, are now the highest ranked team in the Naperville area. Naperville North, which beat Wheaton North in three games on Monday to improve to 9-5, is 10th.

Naperville Central was second two weeks ago and sixth last week. The Redhawks are out of the Top 10 this week.

Central (13-2) looked bad in its two-game loss to North on April 8, but no worse than North looked in its loss to Glenbard East on Thursday. So I'm not sure about North being in the Top 10 over Central.

But, whatever. It certainly makes more sense than the Chicago Tribune rankings that have St. Francis, which lost to both Neuqua (twice) and to Benet last week, still ranked ninth. North is 10th. Central is not ranked.

Possible State Quarterfinal

From the Back Row broke down the potential state quarterfinal matchups after the IHSA held its running of the peas on Monday.

The Naperville North Sectional, which FTBR said is one of the two "most loaded fields in this year's tournament," was matched with the Willowbrook Sectional. That means Neuqua, North or Central could see Glenbard East or No. 6 Hinsdale Central in the state quarterfinals.

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Brad Engel is the longest-tenured member of The Sun sports staff and has won several national and state awards in his coverage of preps as well as the Chicago Bears, Chicago Fire and general sports.

Paul LaTour has been honored with national awards in each of the last three years and currently serves as The Sun's sports enterprise writer in addition to his duties covering high school and college sports.

Dustin Michael Harris joined The Sun in August 2005 and has covered everything from high school sports to men's college basketball in addition to his new role as one of The Sun's sports columnists.

Patrick Mooney covered politics, prep sports and professional baseball for several print and online media outlets before joining The Sun in August 2007. He concentrates on prep sports, writing features, profiles and breaking recruiting news.

Sean Fuchs joined The Sun in January 2008 and covers prep football in addition to swimming and diving and other high school sports. During his career, he’s won national awards covering prep, college and pro sports.

Brad Nolan worked as a Sun sports staff writer for nearly five years before taking over as sports editor in April 2005. Since then, The Sun has continued to be honored as one of the top sports sections in the nation.

Chris Sosa formerly served as The Sun's assistant city editor before taking the assistant sports editor position in January 2007. He also writes a weekly sports column for The Sun.

D.J. Wanberg has served in several different capacities during his long-standing career with The Sun. Most recently, he worked as a sports staff writer and sports night editor until being named associate sports editor in 2006.