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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

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