Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find video of this hit, so we'll just do an oral history here.

Terran Buck was a senior at West Aurora in 2008, and in the first game of the season - the annual East-West game - the linebacker delivered one of the biggest hits The Sports Beacon has ever seen on a field.

The East Aurora QB scrambled to his left, and began to turn up the left sideline (West Aurora's). Buck turned and took the proper angle on this poor QB. I could see this hit coming 20 yards away, but the East QB did not get out of bounds.

The ensuing hit was the loudest I've ever heard, and now - coming up on three football seasons later - others have not forgotten either.

Former Blackhawks coach Buck Drach laughed at the memory:
"Yeah, he took that quarterback out. That might have been one of the biggest hits I've ever seen. it was unbelievable."

Terran's older brother, Jackie Buck, could barely get out his memories of the hit because he was laughing so hard:
"He hits this dude so hard the dude flew into the cheerleaders and started rolling. Then he rolled under the bench!"
"I've never seen anybody get hit that hard in my life where they rolled...he knocked him from the sidelines, through the cheerleaders, and the guy rolled under the bench!"

An introduction by College of DuPage head coach Fred Fimbres:
"As a player, he's big, strong, and fast. It's pretty simple. He's big enough that he can play off of blockers and plays well inside the box. He's fast enough that he can tackle people in space and cover what you would generally cover much more athletic and quicker skill positions such as running backs. He's never had a problem (there).
"I think he was 5th in the country in total tackles. he's a tackling machine and I think his best football is ahead of him."

In case it's been awhile since you've seen Terran lace 'em up and knock 'em down, here's some video.
The soundtrack to this first video is appropriate.

Here's a 2009 highlight video

And here's something else from Fimbres that should get UCF Knights fans excited. If you look at his bio page, Buck is listed at 235 pounds...
"Once he gets to a place, which he is now, where he can focus on school and football rather than worrying about where he's going to sleep and eat and paying rent, he's just going to blow up. He's going to be bigger and stronger.
"It wouldn't surprise me if he weighed 250 pounds by the time August comes around."

NIU assistant volleyball coach Coley Pawlikowski is obviously an up-and-comer in the collegiate ranks after being named to the American Volleyball Coaches Association Thirty Under 30 list for the third straight year

She's been tagged by the group twice now as a NIU assistant and previously when she was the head coach at Division III North Park. She is the daughter of Geneva volleyball coach KC Johnsen.

Check out the details of the honor here.

I showed you the trick shot QB video from UConn that has blown up the internet - well here's a response video from here in Illinois.
Division III Monmouth College QB Alex Tanney and his boys put this together.

wow

The hits (and honors) just keep on coming for Northern Illinois University standout freshman volleyball player Lauren Wicinski, who has been named Freshman of the Year by College Volleyball Update.

Check out a full report here on the Geneva graduate's honor.

Monday was Presidents Day, giving high school students the day off.

Out at Aurora Christian, Don Beebe was conducting a speed training session with several NFL prospects. On the basketball court, Eagles shooting guard Dean Danos was getting in some extra shots.

One thing led to another, and Danos found himself squaring off against UMass running back Johnny Griffin (left) in an impromptu game of one-on-one, up to 5.

With UNC and future top 10 pick Robert Quinn hollering at Hill from the bleachers, Danos beat the NFL hopeful 5-3.
'He got me. I was a little tired. Bring him over to my world tomorrow," Hill said with a smile. "He's got a quick first step, man. He's alright. Better than I thought."

Naturally, Danos was all smiles - nevermind that Hill had just completed a 2-hour sprint workout.
"It doesn't matter how much work he did - he is who he is," Danos said with a grin. "He put in a lot of work before and he was tired, but it was fun though. He's a good guy."

But he wanted nothing to do with the 6-7 Quinn.
"No. Not at all. Not at all. I don't like getting dunked on too much."
" It was a great game. It was fun."

some breaking news: Former Oswego Panther forward Joe Kwiatkowski (a member of the Panthers' Class 3A runner-up team in 2008-09), is transferring from Central Michigan University to play at Aurora University for coach James Lancaster.
He has applied and been accepted to A.U.

So said East Aurora athletic director Cam Leadbetter after seeing this shot by West Aurora's Brandon Hayes....

"It really was embarrasing out there," said West forward Juwan Starks (pictured).

This was the sentiment in the Blackhawks' locker room after Saturday night's 74-66 loss to East Aurora. "Little mistakes", as coach Gordie Kerkman called them, continue to haunt the Blackhawks.

Here's a sample:

Kerkman: "We lost the ball game up here, with our heads. I thought their effort was very good. But we come out of a timeout, set up a play we want to run - and not something we drew up at the time, it's something we normally run - and they do something completely different. In a way, it's poor discipline. I'm having a very difficult time getting us disciplined to do the things we want to do. I don't think it's a case where they're trying to fight us or anything like that - they get out there and their brain turns to scrambled eggs."

Senior guard Brandon Hayes offered up this insight to the game - and then a challenge:
"It's hard to explain. You've got to be on the court to know what it looks like. Things may look like it's going two miles an hour, but on the court everything is going really, really fast, especially when you play a realliy quick team like East - everything is intensified. Unfortunately we couldn't keep our composure when we needed and run the plays that we needed to."

"I told everybody it's not over.
We've got four games left in the regular season, and we plan on playing East again in the playoffs.
I'm a senior and this is my first loss to East and yeah, it hurts, but it's not the end of the world. We've got conference games left and there's still the playoffs.
It's high school basketball - anything can happen."

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This.

So you've probably heard by now Ryan Boatright went off for 41 against Waubonsie Valley tonight - 31 in the first half.

He also cracked the 2,000-point mark for his career - a nifty achievement.

But what coach Wendell Jeffries was impressed with, aside from his 10 rebounds, was Boatright's ability to pull back and manage a double-digit lead as you would expect from a Division I point guard.

"I really give him credit. After we got that lead and in the fourth quarter, he did a great job of playing team ball, taking care of the ball and milking the clock."

Boatright scored just one point in the fourth quarter, but the Warriors never got closer than 12.
To him, the Tomcats ability to control the pace of the game late was an important marker for a team looking to make a state run.
"To win the state championship, we've got to be able to do that," he said. "When a team is already not playing well and you're scoring consistently at the end of a game when they want that back, and they've got to two minutes, a minute and a half playing defense, that makes them tired and irritated, so we've got to be able to do that."

So says many former West Aurora football coaches.
But it'll take a lot of work. A lot.
Check out today's story on the program - and what monumental changes that need to be made in order for it to happen.

We didn't touch on some other big problems that face the Blackhawks' football program - namely the DuPage Valley Conference and why varsity basketball players never seem to play football.

While those are two elements to the football team's struggles - they are just easy talking points. The biggest problem has been the lack of commitment to build the program from the ground up - pee-wee's through junior high. And it seems like the school district has finally realized it.

In these here parts, not much happens on signing day.

We've got only two three Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I) signees - Kaneland's Blake Serpa (Central Michigan) & Taylor Andrews (Army), Waubonsie Valley's Mark Szott (Northwestern).
And there was no drama with those two - both verbally committed before the prep season even began.

Here is a list of players signing today:
Kaneland

Blake Serpa -- Central Michigan

Taylor Andrews -- West Point (Army)

Tyler Callaghan -- College of St. Joseph

Waubonsie Valley

Mark Szott -- Northwestern

Devon Morgan -- University of Dayton

Oswego

John Hugunin -- Drake University

Marmion Academy

T.J. Lally -- South Dakota State

Nick Scoliere -- North Dakota State

Kaneland's Taylor Andrews will be headed to West Point and will play football for and run track for the Army; Tyler Callaghan has a full ride to St. Joseph's College (Ind.) and Jimmy Boyle is making a visit there when the weather allows.
QB Joe Camiliere is leaning toward Elmhurst.

At Waubonsie Devon Morgan committed to the University of Dayton.
Jakobi Johnson is deciding between Princeton and Brown, Eric Josupait is considering Butler, UW-Platteville and Quincy while QB Tom Kolzow will choose between defending Division III national champs UW-Whitewater and Carthage.