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28 | December 28, 2017 | The glencoe anchor sports glencoeanchor.com This Week In... Trevian varsity athletics Boys basketball ■Dec. ■ 28 - vs. TBA (at Proviso West), 12:30 p.m./5:30 p.m. ■Dec. ■ 29 - vs. TBA (at Proviso West), TBA ■Dec. ■ 30 - vs. TBA (at Proviso West), TBA Girls basketball ■Dec. ■ 28 - vs. TBA (at Dundee- Crown), TBA ■Dec. ■ 29 - vs. TBA (at Dundee- Crown), TBA Girls bowling ■Dec. ■ 28 - at Grayslake North Invite (at Lakes Bowl), 9 a.m. Wrestling ■Dec. ■ 29 - at DeKalb Invite, 9 a.m. ■Dec. ■ 30 - at DeKalb Invite, 9 a.m. Rambler varsity athletics Boys basketball ■Dec. ■ 28 - vs. Lely (Fla.) (at Naples Invite), 9 a.m. ■Dec. ■ 29 - vs. TBA (at Naples Invite), TBA ■Dec. ■ 30 - vs. TBA (at Naples Invite), TBA Girls basketball ■Dec. ■ 28 - vs. Braden River (Fla.) (at Naples Holiday Shootout), 9 a.m. ■Dec. ■ 29 - vs. TBA (at Naples Holiday Shootout), 10:30 a.m./4:30 p.m. ■Dec. ■ 30 - vs. TBA (at Naples Holiday Shootout), TBA Wrestling ■Dec. ■ 28 - at Lake Forest (with Glenbrook North, Kelly), 10 a.m. Panther varsity athletics Girls basketball ■Dec. ■ 28 - vs. Ridgewood (at Guerin Prep Invite), 1:45 p.m. ■Dec. ■ 29 - vs. TBA (at Guerin Prep Invite), TBA ■Jan. ■ 4 - at De La Salle, 7 p.m. Raider varsity athletics Boys basketball ■Dec. ■ 28 - at Christian Liberty Academy Tournament, TBA ■Dec. ■ 29 - at Christian Liberty Academy Tournament, TBA Girls Gymnastics Trevians edge Titans in thrilling CSL battle Barkal, Zun tie in allaround David Jaffe, Freelance Reporter It isn’t often that there’s a tie for first in all-around, but that’s just what happened for New Trier gymnasts Darcy Barkal and Rachel Zun at a Thursday, Dec. 21, Central Suburban League South dual meet with Glenbrook South. The teammates earned scores of 36.5 and their efforts helped the Trevians edge out the visiting Titans, 144.2-142.25. “It’s rare that you end up with a tie in gymnastics,” Zun said. “But it felt really good to tie with Darcy and we were both very happy with the result.” Barkal won vault with a 9.45, bouncing back from a tough start. “My first vault was really bad,” Barkal said. “But I recovered and was able to land the next one. Everything on my second vault went very well.” Zun had a very strong floor exercise, taking third with a 9.4. She acknowledges her team is a big help during her floor routine. “They’re all standing in the corner cheering me on,” Zun said. “They show a lot of support and once I know my tumbling is going well, it makes things a lot easier and more fun having that during my routine.” That support is the biggest reason why Barkal has really enjoyed high school gymnastics. “This is my first year of high school gymnastics,” Barkal, a junior, said. “And it’s definitely different knowing you’re trying to do well for your team versus club, which is all individual.” Barkal also won the uneven bars, tying with teammate Maeve Murdock (9.2). “I was really happy because I was able to hit my routine on bars,” Barkal said. “That was one of my stronger scores on bars and I was really pleased with how I did.” She was also fifth on floor (9.1) New Trier gymnast Darcy Barkal celebrates after dismounting from the uneven bars during a Central Suburban League South dual meet Thursday, Dec. 21, with Glenbrook South in Northfield. Photos by Lynn Trautmann/22nd Century Media and she and Zun tied for sixth on balance beam (8.75). Zun tied for third on vault with Murdock and GBS’ Sarah Healy (9.2). “I’ve added something to my routine for vault this season,” Zun said. “I think it’s really shown and helped me get better scores. Also, the energy the team gives you helped pump me up.” She also tied for third on bars (9,15). Other New Trier finishers were Murdock winning beam (9.3), and taking third all-around (36.15), Avery Faulkner winning floor (9.6) and Emma Jane Rohrer tying for fourth with GBS’ Bebe Haramaras on beam (8.85). Healy led the way for the Titans, taking fourth all-around (35.85). Her 9.5 on floor helped her get second. “I was very happy with my tumbling,” Healy said. “I had a good front handspring front full. And I made sure I was having fun. That’s the key to a good floor routine. It took me a little while to figure out that you need to stay loose and relaxed.” New Trier’s Rachel Zun competes on the floor. She also had a strong vault performance. “My vault itself was really good,” Healy said. “I got up very high and I felt myself floating in the air. And I was able to land on my feet, which is always going to be big.” Healy has put a lot of work into her routines for this season. And thus far, it has paid off nicely for her. “I’ve definitely improved a lot,” Healy said. “I’ve made my routines more difficult and so far it’s impacted my scores in a positive way.” Healy also was fifth on bars with 8.7 and got an 8.45 on beam. Other GBS scores were Jenna Hartley taking second on beam (9), and tying for third on bars, Sheena Graham taking second on vault (9.4), Kylie Kruger third on beam (8.95) and Elena Pauker taking fourth on floor (9.25).
glencoeanchor.com sports the glencoe anchor | December 28, 2017 | 29 The Anchor reporter named to hall of fame Michael Wojtychiw Sports Editor Lou Boudreau, Dan Issel, George Mikan, Isiah Thomas and Jerry Sloan. Those five Illinois basketball greats have all been inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, but now they’ll have to move over to welcome a new member to the group: longtime sports and current 22nd Century Media reporter, Loyola football beat writer, and Wilmette resident Neil Milbert. Earlier this month, the association announced its 2018 hall of fame class, which includes Milbert, who will go in as one of seven media members during a May 5 banquet at Illinois State University in Normal. Milbert is being honored thanks to his many years at the Chicago Tribune and the last seven years of writing for 22nd Century Media. “The body of work led me to getting the nomination to the hall of fame and it’s humbling because it’s a big honor. It was unexpected,” Milbert said. “I got a lifetime achievement award from the National Turf Writers Association a few years ago, but this one means more because there’s more basketball writers in Illinois than there are racing writers in the entire country.” The sport of basketball has been a favorite of Milbert’s going back to a young age. As a child, Milbert was diagnosed with the rheumatic flu one summer, causing him to spend an entire summer in bed and really knocking him out from any sporting activities for two to three years. That, in a way, turned out to be a blessing in disguise. “I became a student of sports as a child because, when I was in bed that summer, I knew every player in baseball,” he said. After graduating from Marquette University in 1961, a paper in Ottumwa, Iowa, hired the Iowa native to work on its news side, but he was only there for a couple months due to being drafted and enlisting in the Marine Corps. After six months of active duty and then serving four and a half years in the reserves, Milbert joined his college roommate in New Jersey and worked the sports desk at The Jersey Journal in Jersey City, New Jersey, beginning in September of 1962. Milbert worked his way up to the St. Peter’s College beat in 1965. He held the beat for three years, and witnessed some incredible moments, including a couple big upsets. “I got these guys when they were sophomores,” Milbert said. “When they were juniors, the [National Invitation Tournament] was a big tournament because the NCAA field was much smaller. They got invited to the NIT and got blown out by Southern Illinois. So low and behold, the next year they managed to get back to the NIT and their first game they win against Marshall. Second game, they play Duke, which was No. 4 in the country, and I thought, ‘St. Peter’s is going to get blown out again,’ because Duke had been upset in the ACC Tournament and therefore didn’t qualify for the NCAA Tournament. Low and behold, St. Peter’s upset Duke. “Those were my first experiences covering college basketball.” After coming to the Chicago Tribune in the early ’70s, Milbert had few opportunities to cover basketball. He mainly followed high school state playoff games when the paper would have its staffers cover regional and sectional games. At the time, Milbert was a Blackhawks beat writer, as well as the paper’s main horse racing reporter. That was until the mid-’80s, when he was assigned the Northwestern men’s basketball beat. “One [team I’ll remember] was a really good Northwestern team that had a bunch of guys transfer out. This new group came in as freshmen and Ricky Neil Milbert poses for a photo at his desk in his Wilmette home; he will be inducted into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in May 2018. MICHAEL WOJTYCHIW/22ND CENTURY MEDIA Byrdsong came in [for] his first year as head coach,” Milbert said. “They went undefeated in nonconference play but struggled in conference play. To make it to the NIT, they needed to go .500 and had one game left, against Michigan, who had four of the Fab Five remaining. It was a terrible matchup, but Northwestern took them to overtime, upset them and went to the NIT. “That was monumental and was a thrill for me to see how far these guys had come.” Milbert would follow that up with covering the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign team that would make the NCAA title game, as well as sitting right in front of Bryce Drew when he hit an iconic 3-pointer to beat Ole Miss in the first round of the 1998 NCAA Tournament. “I was sitting there, thinking, ‘Oh boy, not enough time, three seconds,’” Milbert added. “I see this guy wind up, throw the long pass the entire court, one of the Valpo players set it up to Bryce Drew and he hit the shot right in front of me. It was an incredible moment, I’ve never seen anything like that.” Milbert left covering college basketball after leaving the Tribune and started writing for 22nd Century Media’s North Shore papers in 2010. One of his first assignments was a summer league basketball game between Glenbrook South and Loyola Academy. He has a few high school basketball games he’ll always remember covering. “A memorable team is Steve Weissenstein’s GBS girls team when they played in a tournament in Schaumburg,” Milbert said. “They struggled there, but Steve said, ‘Oh, we’re going to be good at the end of the year. These are all inexperienced girls and I like some of the things I saw. I wouldn’t want to play us in February.’ “And he was right. They turned it around and really had a good year. That to me was a mark of a good coach.” Milbert noted that one of the major differences between covering high schools and colleges is that high school reporters have to do many things themselves. When covering college teams, reporters get stats handed to them and can request players and coaches to talk to through the media relations employees at the schools. High schools are a different story. “I’ve always had a respect for high school writers because in the old days, they always had to find a phone, to plug their computers in, and it’s always been more difficult because of that aspect,” he said. “As far as the game, the no shot clock. If a team gets the lead in the fourth quarter, they’ll sit on the lead. It’s a different game than college. “I’ve only done a handful of professional games, but I like the high school game better. I like the coaches strategizing, things like that. I feel like there’s more coaching on the high school level, maybe not more than college but more than in the pros. Coaches can have a greater impact.” The hall of fame banquet will be May 5 at Illinois State’s Redbird Arena and will include 99 new inductees.
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