Both the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs, are flailing in a six-month 162-game schedule and each is not a sprint. Endurance is the watch word.
•Given the end of the school year at hand, school sports likely should be addressed. Boys volleyball has gained predominance is recent years within the Illinois High School Association (IHSA). Tuesday this week sectional championships will be won and the State tournament field of eight will be determined. There will be eight sectional championships captured.
The honor roll listing of opponents: At Bolingbrook: Lockport vs. Downers Grove North; at Sandburg: Oak Park-River Forest vs Lyons; at Marist: Marist vs. Chicago Jones; at Elgin Larkin: Hononegah vs. Wheaton St. Francis; at Vernon Hills: Loyola vs New Trier; at Belleville West: Belleville East vs. Lincoln-Way West; at Lake Park; York vs. Conant.
•Other high school sports status, including State tournament status: Stevenson won the State championship in girls water polo; Lyons won the boys water polo State championship; University High Chicago was the boys tennis State champion.
•Tournaments on the horizon: Girls softball 1A and 2A May 31-June 1 in Peoria; girls softball 3A and 4A in Peoria; girls soccer, 1A, 2A, 3A, May 31-June 1 in Naperville; boys lacrosse, May 31, June 1 at Hinsdale Central; girls lacrosse, May 31, June 1 at Hinsdale Central; baseball, 1A, 2A, May 31, June 1, Peoria; baseball 3A, 4A, June 7, 8 in Joliet.
•Lacrosse in college: Notre Dame won its second consecutive championship over the weekend with a 15-5 victory against the University of Maryland of the Big Ten Conference.
•Northwestern University fell one step short of repeating as the college women’s lacrosse champion.
•The late Bill Walton, 71, was one of a kind. The big 6-11 center led UCLA to two men’s college basketball championships, 1972 and 1973. He was a scholar and stood tall for his beliefs.