Volume 2 – Issue No. 11

You could have an interesting debate trying to decide if the start of the Aurora Christian game was worse that the beginning of the Carthage-Illini West game a year ago. In Carthage, on the first play from scrimmage, their QB connected on a 71-yard scoring pass, just 13 seconds into the game. Friday night, on the first play from scrimmage, their QB took off on foot and scored from 85 yards away, with just 21 seconds off the clock.

In Carthage, we ran six plays before punting, and on the second offensive play for Carthage, they threw an 85-yard TD pass just 4:13 into the game. Friday, we fumbled the kickoff

Volume 2 – Issue No. 10

The Winnebago game might have been our best effort of the 2010 campaign. Steve Liaromatis had his third 140+ yard game and his first four-touchdown half since Jeremy Bailey’s injury. In fact, in those three games he’s had 479 yards on 56 runs, for a 8.55 average. What a blessing to have someone standing by with that kind of talent, when your #1 running back heads to sick bay! Blake Olson and Jayson Conlin have been contributing 89 rushing yards per game between them over that same three-game span.

The Wildcat defense continued to shine

Volume 2 – Issue No. 9

It certainly was nice of the folks at Sandwich to go to such trouble to make the Wildcats feel as though they were playing at home – smoke-filled tunnel of fans and flags, large noisy crowd and an impressive pre-game fireworks display. Being imitated that way really is flattering.

Three consecutive undefeated regular seasons. You might suspect that it’s unprecedented in the 64 years of Wilmington football history, but

Volume 2 – Issue No. 8

If we had known how the game was going to evolve, we could have billed it as the “Steve Liaromatis Show”. Many young athletes have dreamed of being in a situation where something happens in a game, and all of a sudden they find themselves in the spotlight. Something like being at the plate with the bases loaded and two out with the tying run at the plate. Steve was

Volume 2 – Issue No. 7

It’s not very often that a team puts a zero on the scoreboard in the first quarter and ends up with a fast clock en route to a 40-point win, but that’s exactly what the ‘Cats did at Westmont.

On our first possession of the second quarter, Jayson Conlin put our first

Volume 2 – Issue No. 6

The Wildcats faced one of the best athletes we’ve encountered on a football field this season, when the Dwight Trojans came to take their shot at an upset. Since Jordan Kohrt and some of his teammates rejoined the team for Week Four, they had defeated Westmont and had played Lisle tough before losing to them in overtime.

Dwight always seems to have big

Volume 2 – Issue No. 5

When Jeremy Bailey scored his third touchdown just before halftime at Seneca, he moved past Damien Anderson on the list of all-time touchdown scorers at Wilmington High School. It was Jeremy’s 47th trip across the goal line for six points for the Purple and White.

Jeremy would be the first to tell you that it’s

Volume 2 – Issue No. 4

As a society, we study History in our schools, in part so that we can learn the lessons someone else already learned from mistakes they made. What we really learn from studying history is that we don’t really learn much from studying the mistakes of others.

For instance, we didn’t learn anything from Manteno’s mistakes. At Lisle Friday, we were second-and-nine at our own 29 yard line with 37.8 seconds left

Volume 2 – Issue No. 3

At the start of Friday evening’s game with Reed-Custer, the Comets must have been just a little bit giddy. After starting their season with a pair of lopsided losses, they opened the game with a 34-yard run for a first down. Then reality set in. The upstart 2010 Wildcat defense awakened, and the Comets would not get another first down until the 4th quarter when the fast clock was turning.

At the end of three periods

Volume 2 – Issue No. 2

Now that was more like it – The tension we felt during the Manteno game was a little hard on us older folks. Give me a rockin’ chair victory like we had hosting Peotone, and that’s just fine with me.

Our defense has been amazing with its early-season dominance. The coaching staff had expected