By Patrick Z. McGavin-Photos by Gary Larson ** Additional Photos are Available for Purchase for 2 weeks at https://justallsports.zenfolio.com/p1034627611 ** CHICAGO— Moral victories are the last thing any player wants to think about on a day of celebration. Playing their most daunting opponent of the season, the Jr Celtics 13U team discovered something vital and
By Patrick Z. McGavin-Photos by Gary Larson ** Additional Photos are Available for Purchase for 2 weeks at https://justallsports.zenfolio.com/p567076701 ** CHICAGO— The Jr Celtics 12U team began the year on their own self-styled revenge tour looking to avenge the bittersweet memories of a four-overtime loss in the state championship game. Up and down the roster,
By Patrick Z. McGavin- Photos by Kathy Jones ** Additional Photos are Available for Purchase for 2 weeks at https://justallsports.zenfolio.com/p676869513 ** CHICAGO— If every game is a reckoning that challenges players at the deepest level, the Jr Celtics 10U team got caught in their own self-reflection. The view was sobering, tough and revealing. “I think
By Bobby Narang- Photos by Renee Kaspar ** Additional Photos are Available for Purchase for 2 Weeks at https://justallsports.zenfolio.com/p609341977 ** GILBERTS – Football is a unique sport. The combination of physicality and toughness brings out the best in some players. That’s the case of Algonquin Argonauts 9Ublue player, Dominick Bonilla.In his first season playing football,
By Patrick Z. McGavin– Photos by Kathy Jones ** Additional Photos are Available for Purchase for 2 weeks at https://justallsports.zenfolio.com/p741445051 ** CHICAGO— The game is its own chemical reaction or fusion where the parts all flow together with elite players who instinctively know how to create their own rhythm and style. A dynamic young talent
By Bobby Narang- Photos by Lauren Gray ** Additional Photos are Available for Purchase for 2 Weeks at https://justallsports.zenfolio.com/p282618479 ** PLAINFIELD – Football is a physical and demanding sport. Sometimes, emotions can play a big part in a victory – or a defeat. That was the case in Sunday’s 10U Plainfield Saints versus Algonquin Argonauts
By Ed Muniz- Jenn-Anne Geldhill ** Additional Photos are Available for Purchase for 2 Weeks at https://justallsports.zenfolio.com/p422935448 ** ELMHURST- The 9U Jr. Celtics week seven matchups of the Chicagoland Pop Warner football schedule saw them trekking to Elmhurst Illinois to take on the Elmhurst Bears. Coming into the game Coach Gavin McCarron’s team was looking
By Ed Muniz- Photos by Jenn-Anne Gledhill ** Additional Photos are Available for Purchase for 2 Weeks at https://justallsports.zenfolio.com/p1010218460 ** GILBERTS- Gilberts Elementary School was the site of the Algonquin Argonauts week six of the Chicagoland Pop Warner schedule. Among the teams on tap for games on September 29 were the 10U Argos coached by
By Patrick Z. McGavin- Photos by Jenn-Anne Gledhill ** Additional Photos are Available for Purchase for 2 weeks at https://justallsports.zenfolio.com/p568942167 ** ELGIN— A great and dramatic game ended the only way imaginable, with fantastic individual talents from both teams trying to make one final dramatic play. “It was difficult during the game,” two-way standout James Former
By Patrick Z. McGavin-Photos by Gary Larson ** Additional Photos are Available for Purchase for 2 Weeks at https://justallsports.zenfolio.com/p225543590 ** NEW LENOX—Dominant on defense and electric on offense, the pieces all fit beautifully together for a Jr Celtics 10U team that appeared untouchable. They smothered every offense they played, and moved the ball crisply and
