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46 | June 28, 2018 | The orland park prairie sports<br />
opprairie.com<br />
FOOTBALL<br />
Thumbs up? Sandburg hopes to keep its QB healthy<br />
JEFF VORVA, Sports Editor<br />
Last year, Sandburg coach Scott<br />
Peters couldn’t wait to see how<br />
his quarterback - Ben Starcevich -<br />
would perform.<br />
It turns out he got only a peek.<br />
Starcevich injured his thumb<br />
the second game of the season<br />
after showing some promise in a<br />
season-opening loss to Lyons in<br />
which he connected with Nicky<br />
Shelton for a 72-yard touchdown<br />
pass and a 27-yard completion<br />
to Shelton to help set up another<br />
score.<br />
The Eagles finished 3-6 against<br />
a schedule in which seven out of<br />
nine opponents went to the playoffs.<br />
“At the high school level, if<br />
you lose your starting quarterback<br />
and rely on your backups, it’s not<br />
easy,” Peters said.<br />
Summer ball is in full swing<br />
for the Eagles and they were<br />
involved in 7-on-7 competition<br />
at Andrew High School on<br />
June 20 and Starcevich and his<br />
teammates scrimmaged with<br />
the hosts, Tinley Park, Argo and<br />
Crete-Monee.<br />
Sandburg lost several offensive<br />
players from last year but tailback<br />
Andrew Schab is slated to be back<br />
to chomp up some yards.<br />
Defensive stars Alex Hisrchfield<br />
(who has an offer from Butler<br />
on the table) and Hamza Ismail received<br />
all-conference recognition<br />
in the SouthWest Suburban and<br />
are back.<br />
The Eagles welcome tight end/<br />
defensive end Dylan Goodsell<br />
from Casa Grande Union High<br />
School in Arizona.<br />
Sandburg opens the season on<br />
Aug. 24 and Aug. 31 with nonconference<br />
rematches with Lyons<br />
and Curie. Then, the Eagles dive<br />
into a river filled with sharks when<br />
they face Bolingbrook and Class<br />
8A defending state champion<br />
Lincoln-Way East. Sandburg lost<br />
to those two teams by a combined<br />
score of 102-21 so the road could<br />
start out bumpy before finishing<br />
out the season with Thornton,<br />
Lincoln-Way West, Stagg, Lincoln-Way<br />
Central and Homewood<br />
-Flossmoor.<br />
“Let’s be honest, with Bolingbrook<br />
and Lincoln-Way East, no<br />
one is fooling anybody, we are<br />
realistic,” Peters said. “East is<br />
a defending state champion and<br />
their best player (A.J. Henning)<br />
didn’t play against us. But that’s<br />
the fun of high school football.<br />
To be honest, I wouldn’t want<br />
to be in a conference where I<br />
knew we would have seven guaranteed<br />
wins.”<br />
Sandburg quarterback Ben Starcevich warms up before a 7-on-7 game<br />
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