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AURORA – Kaneland softball coach Brian Willis isn’t sure the last time the Knights won a regional championship, but he seemed to have the foresight to know this year’s team would get it done. 

BURLINGTON — DeKalb just wouldn't go away.

HAMPSHIRE – All game long, Sycamore's defense had been nearly flawless. It was an aspect of the game the Spartans felt great about before Saturday's Class 3A Hampshire Regional baseball final against Burlington Central.

MAPLE PARK – The DeKalb baseball team had plenty of chances in a 4-1 Class 3A Kaneland Regional final loss to Marmion on Saturday – it had the bases loaded in the second inning, runners on first and third with no outs in the fourth, and two runners on with no outs in the sixth.

CHARLESTON – Sycamore collected four medals out of five finals entries at Saturday's Class 2A boys state track and field meet.

DeKalb’s Kulma loses in 4th round of consolation

SYCAMORE – The first person Nathan Haacker texted was his mom.

DeKALB – Bruise discovery is a postgame ritual for Trenton Sopko.

DeKALB – According to DeKalb softball coach Jeff Davis, when Sabrina Killeen is performing well, so are the Barbs.

Daily Chronicle sports editor John Sahly and sports reporter Steve Nitz spend their days covering the area’s sports scene. Occasionally, they give their viewpoints on those local sports. In this in-stallment of their 2012 Take 2 column, they discuss former DeKalb football coach Marty Sanders’ recent resignation.

CHARLESTON – Sycamore senior runners Zach Aase and Erik Ruud glanced at the program for the IHSA Class 2A boys track and field state preliminaries and grinned.

Kory Harner grew up hearing about the Kaneland pole vault tradition from his two uncles, former Kaneland vaulters.

Weissinger, Gullstrand advance at state track

HAMPSHIRE – Jason Cavanaugh called Thursday’s game against Crystal Lake Central “the most stressful game in the world.”

G-K’s Price, Lucca named to all-BNC baseball team

DeKALB – Matt Kulma didn’t want to blame the racket.

GENOA – Rhealene Cleveland took off from third base, but the Genoa-Kingston senior didn’t have the chance to make it home.

AURORA – The Kaneland softball team opened the postseason the same way it played most of the regular season: dominantly.

MAPLE PARK – The DeKalb baseball team knew it had its work cut out for it Wednesday when it faced the host in a Class 3A Kaneland Regional semifinal.

BURLINGTON – Katie Kowalski finally was able to get back into the circle Wednesday.

BELVIDERE – Sycamore prepared for a smaller, football-sized field at Belvidere. The Spartans shifted their formation, as they had done earlier in the season, to get used to playing in tighter quarters on a narrow pitch.

As soon as Ben Fisher saw that the DeKalb girls volleyball coach position was open, he said he jumped at it the opportunity and applied.

GENOA – When she arrives at the softball diamond on game day, Emily Wakeley has no idea where she will be playing.

DeKalb High School has hired Club Fusion South lead trainer Ben Fisher as its new girls varsity volleyball coach, DeKalb athletic director Dan Jones told the Daily Chronicle on Tuesday morning.

ELBURN – Delani Vest is set to graduate high school in less than two weeks. In reality, the Kaneland senior’s journey to adulthood is well under way.

Sycamore finishes regular season with 20th win

SYCAMORE – Freeport girls soccer coach Nick Namio calls Sycamore coach Dave Lichamer one of his favorite coaches to talk to before a game.

DeKALB – Down by a run heading into the seventh inning of Monday’s Class 3A Kaneland Regional opener against IMSA, the DeKalb baseball team’s confidence could have been shaken.

DeKALB – The most successful DeKalb High football coach in the past decade, Marty Sanders, sent in a letter of resignation as the Barbs’ coach Monday, Sanders confirmed to the Daily Chronicle late Monday.

Genoa-Kingston sophomore catcher Paige Keegan and junior IB/OF Emily Wakeley were the lone Cogs selections on the Big Northern All-Conference team.

A few years ago at a wrestling meet in DeKalb, a fan yelled to an official during a bout, “Ref, he’s stalling.”

The Sycamore softball team swept Sandwich on senior day to close out the regular season  Saturday. Sycamore defeated the Indians, 4-3, in the first game on a walk-off double by Brittany Huber and 9-3 in the second.

GENOA – The 2012 Genoa-Kingston softball team isn’t similar to last year’s team that finished the season with just two losses and graduated most of its starting lineup.

BIG ROCK – Luke Winkle called it bittersweet.

DeKalb's Brown takes 4th in triple jump; G-K's Neisendorf 7th in high jump

Indian Creek and Hinckley-Big Rock each had an athlete qualify for next weekend’s Class 1A boys track and field state meet out of Friday night’s Seneca Sectional.

Daily Chronicle sports editor John Sahly and sports reporter Steve Nitz spend their days covering the area’s sports scene. Occasionally, they give their viewpoints on those local sports. In this installment of their 2012 Take 2 column, they discuss the upcoming Class 3A softball playoffs.

CHARLESTON – When Jasmine Brown’s feet landed well into the triple jump pit at Eastern Illinois University’s O’Brien Stadium, she got up and went to the take-off board.

DeKALB – Emma Floit made up her mind. She had to get off a shot.

DeKalb freshman Dre Brown took sixth in the long jump (20 feet) and seventh in the 100-meter dash (11.54) at Thursday's Class 3A Hononegah boys track sectional. The Barbs did not qualify any athletes for the state meet.

DeKalb junior Jasmine Brown always has considered herself more of a triple jumper than a long jumper.

BIG ROCK – Dillon Martenson went into the Indian Creek dugout and high-fived his teammates.

ROCHELLE – Before Thursday’s Class 2A Rochelle Sectional, Kaneland boys track and field coach Eric Baron projected his team to score 91 points.

Once again, conference realignment appears on the horizon in the region.

The Hiawatha softball team’s season came to an end with a 3-0 loss to Ashton-Franklin Center in Wednesday’s Class 1A Indian Creek Regional semifinals.

BIG ROCK – Midway through the first inning, Hiawatha baseball coach Sean Donnelly turned to an assistant coach and said that even in his worst nightmare, Wednesday’s game didn’t go this bad against Somonauk.

DeKALB – Thanks to a Kelli Cardine blast in the 116th minute of Wednesday’s 1-0, quadruple-overtime win over Hampshire, the DeKalb girls soccer team will have a rematch with Sycamore in Friday’s Class 2A DeKalb Regional championship game.

BURLINGTON – Jordan Ginther gathered her Kaneland girls soccer teammates near midfield during an injury stoppage late in Wednesday’s match.

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GENOA – On some occasions, Danielle Engel will ask her mother if it looked like she ran the bases fast.