Monday, April 26, 2010

IHSA Varsity Boys Volleyball: Vernon Hills at Zion-Benton

Boy's Varsity High School Volley Ball:  Vernon Hills vs Zion at Zion Benton H.S.  Zion Senior, Tyler Boyce, lofts one up to make a play during the third game.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)
Zion Senior, Andy Sandine, spikes one in hard, scoring a point for his team.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)
Vernon Hill's Mike Robinson, gets ready to spike the ball hard into Zion territory.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)
Zion Senior, Trevor Rieker, spikes one down, attempting a block, is Vernon Hill's Thomas Robinson.   (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)
Zion Senior, Tyler Boyce, sets up a play to Senior, Trevor Rieker, who spikes one in hard.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

IHSA NSC Varsity Boys Volleyball: Lake Forest at Mundelein

Lake Forest vs. Mundelein in battle of NSC volley powers at Mundelein H.S.  The Mustangs having a prep talk while in a time out, Mundelein ended winning two games out of three.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Lake Forest's senior John Rockwell spikes in a point, Mundelein's (from left) Connor Johnson, Ted Bregenzer, and Mitchell Baumgartner attemp to block.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Patrick Lentz of Mundelein spikes one in while Lake Forest's Mike Simet blocks, fellow teammate Ryan Christensen backs him up.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Lake Forest's John Rockwell looks intensely onto Mundelein's Andrew Roscoe making an incredible diving save.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Lake Forest's Kyle Moore sets one up for teammate Ryan Christensen to spike one, Brian Chin of Mundelein gets ready to block.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Lake Forest's Kyle Moore spikes one in hard, Connor Johnson of Mundelein is right there to block.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Tasos Stavropoulos of Lake Forest nudges one across, Patrick Lentz of Mundelein attemps a block while fellow teammate Andrew Roscoe backs him up.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Friday, April 23, 2010

Friday Fish Fry at the Village Supper Club

The Village Supper Club in Pleasant Prairie, WI offers a magnificent friday fish fry, with reasonable prices, friendly service, and great atmosphere.  Located on Sheridan Road, just north of the state line, just remember to make your reservations, because this place gets jumping after 6 pm every friday.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)
The Village Supper Club in Pleasant Prairie, WI offers a magnificent friday fish fry, with reasonable prices, friendly service, and great atmosphere.  All sorts of freshly fried seafood available, including an all you can eat fish fry special on fridays for under ten dollars.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Chef Jake Skurski prepares a fish fillet, dipping it into a breading mixture of ingredients that makes it just right.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Enjoying a well cooked meal in a great place, from left, Starr Atkinson, Kathy Delk, Bill Grogan, and Keith Delk, of Beach Park.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

A very unique arrangment of bottles on tops of walls, is the owner's collection of different types of Vodkas from all over the world.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Donna and Ed Bukantis of Waukegan, adore their very tasty meal during their 50th anniversary, with them, is Rick Bukantis.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Thursday, April 22, 2010

IHSA Varsity Girls Lacrosse: Warren at Libertyville

Warren's captains; Jenna Malloy and Brittany Kotomski talk with Libertyville's captains; Eileen Lee, Elizabeth Oldenburg, and Megan Collins. (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)
Warren's Aubri Hazen manages to get through Libertyville's defense and scores one for Warren, Aubri scored 2 goals for her team.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Warren's Aubri Hazen battles against Libertyville's Kelsey Rupsch.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Libertyville's Head coach, Dana Brady (in the black), gives her team advice and constructed criticism, while her assistant coach, Nora Kunio (orange), also gives necessary pointers.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Libertyville's Alison Heimert takes one down field, while her teammates try to get open, Warren plays defense.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Both teams ladies line up for the start of a battle which ended by a land slide, Libertyville won 20 - 3.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Warren's Aubri Hazen manages to get through Libertyville's defense and scores one for Warren, Aubri scored 2 goals for her team.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)
Libertyville Senior Alex Schwartz asks Elizabeth Oldenburg to the prom during half time, she said yes.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Warren's Head Coach, Catherine Catanzaro, gives her team support and advice during a final time out, while they are down by 18, but came back with one, to end it 20 - 3.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)


Saturday, April 10, 2010

IHSA Varsity Girls Softball: Waukegan at Zion-Benton

Zion's Jessica Munda fires in perfect pitches that helped her team win over Waukegan.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Zion's Tahla Wade safely slides into home while Waukegan's catcher, Bailey Frew, is unable to catch the ball to tag her out at home.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Waukegan's Katie O'Connor tags out Zion's Allyssa Powles at second base.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Despite Zion's Ryleigh Sears's attempt to slide into third, Waukegan's Emily Vukovich gets her out while throwing to second for a double play.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Zion wins over Waukegan by a landslide, the game ends early because of the huge lead.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Waukegan Park District has its Annual Eggstravaganza at Belvidere Park

Although incredibly frightened, Edwin Lopez, 2 of Waukegan, manages to meet the Easter bunny face to face for the first time.

Ivie Gottlieb, 2 of Lake Forest, baffled by the presence of this mime, unable to think rationally, she tries to ignore everything until the moment is over.

 The Amazing Josh crafts artistically designed balloons for Maria Ramirez, age 7 in the pink, and her sister Jacueline, age 3 of Waukegan.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

People lined up here in the 5 and 6 year old age group, waiting nervously for the air horn "go" sound.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

The scattered eggs are colorful and pretty this year, multiple sections are closed off for the different age groups, making it more fair for everyone to have fun.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

People are lined up and spread out, here in the 4 year old section, as the count down to start diminishes rapidly.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Jeremiah Bustamante, age 4 of Waukegan gathers eggs as quickly as possible during the easter egg hunt.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)

Adults are prohibited to grab eggs during the Hunt, because it has been deemed unfair for the other children, but apparently they do whatever they please.  (Mark Ukena/Sun-Times Media)