The Evanston Wildkits baseball team plays in the championship game today at the Spring Classic tournament in Orlando, Fla., after a third straight victory Wednesday.
Junior Miles Shatkin tossed a complete game no-hitter in an 11-1 slaughter of Amalie from the Virgin Islands Tuesday in the Evanston Wildkits second game of a spring-break road trip to Florida.
In 90-degree heat at historic Sanford Stadium, the Evanston Wildkit varsity squad never trailed and defeated TC Williams of Virginia 8-2 in the Kits first game on their Florida spring trip.
Evanston managed only one hit (by Alex Vergara) and struck out 15 times against a dominant Hersey pitcher to lose its second straight in a 3-0 loss to John Hersey High School today.
Plans for a sixth edition of the summer grand prix bicycle race in downtown Evanston have crashed, with organizers unable to come up with enough sponsor backing to hold the event.
The Evanston Township High School Wildkits came out on a tear, defeating Taft 11-1 in five innings at home today.
By comparison, last year the Wildkits only managed to beat Taft by one run in extra innings.
Long-time Evanston Township High School athletic director Willie May died Wednesday evening.
The school's current athletic director, Chris Livatino, reports that May sucumbed to the rare blood disese, amyloidosis.
