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tinleyjunction.com sports<br />
the Tinley Junction | May 9, 2019 | 47<br />
fastbreak<br />
THURSDAY MORNING QUARTERBACK<br />
Young Bulldogs win a title and help a cop with cancer<br />
1st and 3<br />
JEFF VORVA/22ND<br />
CENTURY MEDIA<br />
SOME THINGS TO<br />
WATCH OUT FOR IN<br />
THE POSTSEASON<br />
REGARDING TINLEY<br />
PARK TEAMS<br />
1. Bickel and Spells<br />
Andrew track runners<br />
John Bickel<br />
(above) and Mychah<br />
Spells hope to make<br />
an impact in the<br />
IHSA state meet<br />
in the dashes and<br />
hurdle events.<br />
2. Bolts soccer team<br />
Last year, Andrew’s<br />
girls soccer team<br />
finished fourth in<br />
the state in Class<br />
3A and hopes for<br />
another big run in<br />
2019,<br />
3. Throwing terror<br />
Tinley Park High<br />
School’s Rebecca<br />
Beltran, who finished<br />
seventh in the<br />
discus in Class 2A<br />
last year, could finish<br />
in the top three<br />
this season.<br />
Jeff Vorva<br />
Sports Editor<br />
Sports news in the<br />
village of Tinley<br />
Park is on a hot<br />
streak.<br />
We have had some<br />
incredible cover stories in<br />
the past couple of weeks<br />
about wonderful things<br />
going on not only on the<br />
playing fields and courts<br />
but in real life as well.<br />
The cover story this week<br />
on Nate Tholl is not too<br />
shabby, either.<br />
Some of the special<br />
stories in <strong>TP</strong> have filtered<br />
down to youth baseball as<br />
well.<br />
The Tinley Park Bulldogs’<br />
8U baseball squad<br />
opened its season heading<br />
over the state border and<br />
winning the Tomahawk<br />
Tuneup in St. John, Indiana.<br />
The team, consisting<br />
of Charlie Wagner, Sarah<br />
Aggen, Austin Neighbors,<br />
Nathan Hesse, Gavin<br />
Jurkovic, Drew Hullinger,<br />
Ryan Metz, Logan Viau,<br />
Jackson Harris, Cayden<br />
Rasmason and Casey<br />
Westin coached by Steve<br />
Westin, Justin Viau, Scott<br />
Hesse, went 4-0 in the<br />
tournament.<br />
And, get this, the<br />
Bulldogs beat the Dyer<br />
Dirtbags, 10-4 in the<br />
championship game.<br />
“Yes, that’s really their<br />
name,” Steve Westin said.<br />
“It was funny to hear fans<br />
yelling ‘come on, Dirtbags!’<br />
’’<br />
But that’s not the best<br />
part of the story.<br />
The best part is that<br />
money from the tournament<br />
went to Jessie Hernandez,<br />
a Lynwood police<br />
sergeant who is battling<br />
non-Hodgkins lymphoma.<br />
Herandez may not be<br />
well known around here,<br />
but he is one of those<br />
guys who coaches middle<br />
school basketball and is<br />
a volunteer coach for the<br />
St. John’s travel squad. He<br />
has had low grade cancer<br />
for years and now it has<br />
spread past the lymph<br />
nodes and is in his bone<br />
marrow, spleen and liver<br />
according to information<br />
from the Cuffing Cancer<br />
campaign. Money is going<br />
to help pay for chemo<br />
treatments.<br />
The tournament that the<br />
Bulldogs were in raised<br />
close to $5,000 according<br />
to Westin.<br />
Perhaps the young<br />
Bulldogs do not realize<br />
what they have done.<br />
Winning the trophy and a<br />
championship is probably<br />
the reward the boys are<br />
enjoying the most.<br />
When they get older,<br />
they can look back and<br />
remember not only winning<br />
a championship but<br />
The Tinley Park Bulldogs 8U team won a tournament in Indiana which raised money<br />
for Jessie Hernandez, a Lynwood police sergeant who has cancer. PHOTO SUBMITTED<br />
also helping to be a part<br />
of something bigger and<br />
better.<br />
Heading to nationals<br />
Some members of the<br />
Moraine Valley Community<br />
College men’s tennis<br />
team will participate in<br />
the National Junior College<br />
Athletics Association<br />
Division I national tournament<br />
starting on Monday,<br />
May 13 in Tucson,<br />
Arizona.<br />
The Cyclones have<br />
a heavy Andrew High<br />
School presence. The first<br />
singles player is sophomore<br />
Nick Karczynski,<br />
who finished second in the<br />
Region IV tennis tournament<br />
on April 27, hosted<br />
by Moraine in Palos Hills.<br />
Andrew grads John<br />
McGuire and Sean<br />
McKernan are also on the<br />
roster. The assistant coach<br />
is Andrew’s boys and girls<br />
coach Mike Maratea.<br />
Nick Karczynski, an Andrew graduate, has helped<br />
Moraine Valley’s tennis team qualify for nationals.<br />
PHOTO COURTESY OF MORAINE VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE<br />
Speaking of Moraine...<br />
Andrew basketball player<br />
Kirsten Kamholz committed<br />
to Moraine and will<br />
play for Delwyn Jones,<br />
whose team qualified for<br />
nationals for the third time<br />
in school history earlier<br />
this year.<br />
Not to put any pressure<br />
on anyone, but the last<br />
time Jones signed up a<br />
player from coach Bobby<br />
Matz’s stable of talent<br />
is was Michelle Borgen,<br />
who was one of the top<br />
center/forwards in the<br />
country. She helped get the<br />
Cyclones to the national<br />
tournament for the second<br />
time in school history in<br />
2017 and this season averaged<br />
17.2 points and 8.4<br />
rebounds for Indiana University<br />
Northwest, which<br />
made it to the round of<br />
16 of the NAIA National<br />
Division II Tournament.<br />
LISTEN UP<br />
“He has always loved the game of baseball and has passed the<br />
love to his brother and sister.”<br />
Kathleen Tholl – Mother of college baseball star Nate Tholl, who has<br />
prospered despite health issues<br />
WHAT2WATCH<br />
GIRLS SOCCER<br />
TBA, Tuesday, May 14<br />
• IHSA Regional semifinal action begins in Class<br />
2A and 3A<br />
Index<br />
44 – Sports roundup<br />
42 – Athlete of the Week<br />
Compiled by Sports Editor Jeff Vorva,<br />
J.VORVA@22ndcm.com