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the orland park prairie | September 6, 2018 | 41<br />
AREA SPORTS ROUNDUP<br />
Sandburg hangs with the best in two-goal loss<br />
JEFF VORVA, Sports Editor<br />
Marvin Agwomoh — a Sandburg senior who runs, plays<br />
basketball and now football — won the August Athlete of<br />
the Month competition for publisher 22nd Century Media’s<br />
Southwest Chicago branch. 22nd Century Media File Photo<br />
Athlete of the Month<br />
Sandburg multi-sport<br />
athlete wins August honor<br />
Bill Jones, Editor<br />
Sandburg senior Marvin<br />
Agwomoh already made his<br />
mark on the track as a state<br />
qualifier in the 800-meter<br />
relay. He also has proven a<br />
leader for the Sandburg boys<br />
basketball team.<br />
And in Week 1 of fall football,<br />
he was one of the key<br />
factors in the Eagles picking<br />
up a win in their seasonopener<br />
for the first time in a<br />
few years.<br />
That all makes it difficult<br />
to deny the results of the<br />
popular vote, as Agwomoh<br />
claimed the most nods<br />
for 22nd Century Media’s<br />
Southwest Chicago Athlete<br />
of the Month contest for August.<br />
The Athlete of the Month<br />
competition pits featured<br />
Athlete of the Week selections<br />
from our south suburban<br />
newspapers against one<br />
another in an online voting<br />
contest.<br />
The next contest is to begin<br />
Monday, Sept. 10.<br />
To vote, visit <strong>OP</strong>Prairie.<br />
com, hover over the “Sports”<br />
menu tab and click “Athlete<br />
of the Month.” Readers can<br />
vote once per session per<br />
valid email address. Voting<br />
ends at 5 p.m. Sept. 25.<br />
All athletes featured in the<br />
August Athlete of the Week<br />
sports interviews are automatically<br />
entered into the<br />
contest.<br />
Sandburg’s boys soccer<br />
team had a chance to take<br />
on the best in the Best of the<br />
West Tournament.<br />
The Eagles, considered<br />
one of the top teams in the<br />
south suburbs, were able to<br />
hang with Naperville North<br />
but dropped a 2-0 decision<br />
in the championship of the<br />
Best of the West Tournament<br />
on Saturday, Sept. 1, at Naperville<br />
Central.<br />
North is the two-time defending<br />
Class 3A state champion<br />
and was ranked No. 1 in<br />
the Chicagolandsoccer.org<br />
preseason poll.<br />
To get to the finals, the unranked<br />
Eagles (3-2-1) won<br />
their pool, which included a<br />
1-0 stunner over 13th-ranked<br />
Naperville Central. Adam<br />
Azhari scored the lone goal<br />
with an assist from Colin<br />
Kroll. Goalie Connor Baker<br />
recorded the shutout.<br />
Eagles golfers red hot<br />
Sandburg’s boys golf team<br />
won the Homewood-Flossmoor<br />
Invitational with a 305<br />
on Saturday, Sept. 1. Max<br />
Farley led the squad with a<br />
71, Matt James added a 74,<br />
Mitchell Mazzei had a 78<br />
and Cole Sanders an 82.<br />
The Eagles potentially set<br />
a school record with a 140<br />
against Andrew on Aug. 28<br />
as Kyle Matre had a 33, Farley<br />
and James each had a 34<br />
and Carson Krol a 39.<br />
The Eagles girls took<br />
second at H-F with Hannah<br />
Kilbane taking third with a<br />
73. Soonbi Kwon had a 76<br />
and Joanna James a 77.<br />
Attack holds tryouts<br />
The Attack Volleyball<br />
Clubs hosts tryouts for 12<br />
and 14 age groups on Sept.<br />
30 with a time and location<br />
to be determined.<br />
For more information, visit<br />
attackvolleyballclub.net.<br />
Another huge honor awaits Sandburg-grad Coyne<br />
JEFF VORVA, Sports Editor<br />
Add another honor for<br />
Sandburg graduate Kendall<br />
Coyne.<br />
After starting 2018 winning<br />
an Olympic gold medal with<br />
the United States women’s<br />
hockey team, she has been<br />
honored all across the country<br />
and this year, she is one of<br />
10 sports figures who will be<br />
inducted into the Chicagoland<br />
Sports Hall of Fame.<br />
The ceremony takes place<br />
Oct. 3 at Wintrust Arena, in<br />
Chicago.<br />
The other nine inducted<br />
will be former Bears kicker<br />
Sandburg’s Colin Kroll (No. 10) and Adam Azhari (No. 7), playing against Lyons earlier<br />
in the season, teamed up for a goal in an upset over Naperville Central in the Best of the<br />
West Tournament. JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA<br />
Kevin Butler, Loyola men’s<br />
basketball coach Porter<br />
Moser, Notre Dame women’s<br />
basketball coach Muffet<br />
McGraw, Josh Misiewicz of<br />
Paralympics, WSCR executive<br />
Mitch Rosen, former<br />
football great Eric Dickerson,<br />
Chicago Fire legend<br />
Frank Klopas, NFL great<br />
Rob Ninkovich (a Lincoln-<br />
Way Central graduate from<br />
New Lenox) and sports advocate<br />
Ed Wehmer.<br />
The hall of fame already<br />
features another Sandburg<br />
graduate, Sarah Kustok, who<br />
is now a national sports reporter<br />
and announcer.<br />
Kendall Coyne, speaking at Sandburg earlier in the year,<br />
will be inducted into the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame<br />
in October. JEFF VORVA/22ND CENTURY MEDIA
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