TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Monday, Nov. 23
Orange Pool at Oswego
Geneva vs. West Chicago, 5:30 p.m.
Waubonsie Valley vs. Oswego, 7 p.m.
Blue Pool at Naperville North
DeKalb vs. Oswego East, 5:30 p.m.
Marmion vs. Naperville North, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 24
Orange Pool at Oswego
Geneva vs. Waubonsie Valley, 5:30 p.m.
West Chicago vs. Oswego, 7 p.m.
Blue Pool at Naperville North
Marmion vs. Oswego East, 5:30 p.m.
DeKalb vs. Naperville North, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 25 at Oswego
West Chicago vs. Waubonsie Valley, 12 p.m.
Geneva vs. Oswego, 1:30 p.m.
Marmion vs. DeKalb, 3 p.m.
Oswego East vs. Naperville North, 4:30 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 27 at Oswego
No. 4 Orange vs. No. 4 Blue, 12 p.m.
No. 3 Orange vs. No. 3 Blue, 1:30 p.m.
No. 2 Orange vs. No. 2 Blue, 3 p.m.
No. 1 Orange vs. No. 1 Blue, 5 p.m.

"Naperville Sports Weekly" will be back on the air just as the prep seasons begin again. The show starts its third season on Naperville Community Television on Aug. 30 at 6:30 p.m.

Viewers have three ways to watch: Channel 17; NCTV17.com through simultaneous streaming and on-demand; and iTunes podcast. The complete schedule can also be found at NCTV17.com.

The half-hour program has highlights and features from Benet, Naperville Central, Naperville North, Neuqua Valley and Waubonsie Valley.

The list comes to you courtesy of Prep Baseball Report's Drake Skleba:

1B Pat Korienek, Downers Grove South
2B Dan Walsh, Downers Grove South
SS Vince Kmiec, Sandburg
3B Stefano Belmonte, St. Rita
C Eric Josupait, Waubonsie Valley
DH Harry Vickers, Waubonsie Valley
OF Kris Singh, Waubonsie Valley
OF Brett Huff, Sandburg
OF Anthony Andres, St.Rita
P Matt Wivinis, Downers Grove South
P Shane Conlon, St. Rita

2009 Jack Kaiser Most Valuable Player Award
Mark Payton, St. Rita

Waubonsie Valley and Neuqua Valley have earned top seeds in the upcoming Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association summer state tournament. For the full brackets, click here and follow the "IHSBCA SUMMER 09" link.

Benet senior pitcher John Boyle and Waubonsie Valley junior third baseman Sam Carius were recently named to the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association's all-state team.

Boyle, who will throw for Creighton next season, went 8-2 with a 1.51 ERA. Carius, a unanimous all-Upstate Eight Conference pick, hit .431 with 31 RBI.

West Aurora senior outfielder Brady Renner - son of Robin, the Neuqua Valley head coach - was also selected for the Class 3A/4A team.

For the full list, click here.

--Benet senior pitcher John Boyle and Waubonsie Valley junior third baseman Sam Carius were honorable mentions on the Chicago Sun-Times all-area baseball team.

West Aurora senior outfielder Brady Renner - the son of Robin, Neuqua Valley's head coach - was selected to the second team. Wheaton North's Jack DeAno made the first team.

--From Prep Baseball Report guru Sean Duncan, here's more on the pitcher who eliminated Naperville Central in the supersectional round:

O'Fallon junior right-hander Miles Quintal won't light up any radar guns, but the kid knows how to pitch. He improved to 11-2 with his complete-game victory in the Class 4A third-place game. Quintal already has 22 career wins.

--Our all-city baseball package will be running later this month.

Five girls soccer players from Illinois made the 2009 Parade All-America Soccer Team.

Neuqua Valley's Alexa Gaul was one of three goalkeepers on the list, and Waubonsie Valley's Bri Rodriguez was one of 12 midfielders. Both girls are seniors.

We are admittedly late posting this, but as a reader pointed out last week, The Courier News has the entire all-Upstate Eight Conference baseball team listed here. The local representatives are:

Mike McKinley, Neuqua Valley, senior pitcher
Ryan Wagner, Neuqua Valley, senior second baseman
Joe Ippolito, Neuqua Valley, junior outfielder
Mike Gerber, Neuqua Valley, junior outfielder

Kris Singh, Waubonsie Valley, junior first baseman
*Sam Carius, Waubonsie Valley, junior third baseman
*Kevin Kirchner, Waubonsie Valley, senior outfielder

* = Unanimous selection

Waubonsie Valley's opening-round home playoff game against East Aurora will be at 10 a.m. on May 25 (Memorial Day). East Aurora is seeded last in the 22-team Lockport Sectional, but the No. 11 Warriors will have to face pitcher Dan Okapal, who's drawing attention from big-league scouts.

Today we look at the brutal Lockport Sectional, which could produce the eventual Class 4A champion. Naperville North and host Naperville Central are stuck in the same regional. Benet might have to go through top-seed Lincoln-Way East. Once Neuqua Valley and Waubonsie Valley decide the Upstate Eight Conference race, neither team will have an easy draw in the postseason.

The pairings can be found here. What are your predictions?

LOCKPORT SECTIONAL SEEDS
1. Lincoln-Way East
2. Naperville North
3. Lockport*
4. Plainfield North
5. Neuqua Valley*
6. Downers Grove South
7. Naperville Central*
8. Benet
9. Joliet
10. Hinsdale Central
11. Waubonsie Valley
12. Romeoville
13. Lyons
14. Plainfield Central
15. Plainfield South
16. Providence Catholic
17. Downers Grove North
18. Lincoln-Way Central
19. Oswego East
20. Bolingbrook
21. Hinsdale South
22. East Aurora

*Before the IHSA went to a four-class system last season, the final three Class AA state champions were: Neuqua (2007), Central (2006) and Lockport (2005).

Neuqua Valley had just tied the game and Sean Smith inherited a difficult situation - runners on the corners and one out. The momentum was shifting away from Waubonsie Valley in the fifth inning but Smith struck out Alex Lincoln swinging and then got Jeff Dean to ground out to end the threat.

Smith allowed two baserunners in the sixth, and singles in the seventh and eighth, but the junior kept it together in 3.2 scoreless innings in a 5-3 victory. Smith (2-0) earned the win and Waubonsie the sweep on Saturday in Naperville.

The relief effort bought some time for Kris Singh, who drilled an inside fastball from Craig Provow - the same one he'd seen in summer ball - and deposited it beyond the right-field fence for the go-ahead solo home run in the eighth.

Singh (2-3) gutted it out earlier in the day, pitching into the seventh inning of a sloppy 11-9 win loss. Kevin Kirchner then notched his first save of the season. Neuqua (13-8, 8-3) and Waubonsie (10-9, 9-4) just made the Upstate Eight Conference race a lot more interesting. The District 204 rivals will meet again May 15.

"We've been on a roll lately," Singh said. "We came up here with a positive attitude, swinging sticks and playing D. We'll be fine."