Live Basketball: Brother Rice vs. Marian Catholic

The Brother Rice Crusaders square-off against the Marian Catholic Spartans live on Patch at 7:30 p.m.

Patch will be bringing you live coverage of the Brother Rice Crusaders and Marian Catholic Spartans as the battle it out in boys basketball.  Brother Rice (17-2) will travel to Chicago Heights to take on Marian Catholic (20-3). The game gets going at 7:30 p.m. If you miss it, come back anytime to watch a full replay of all the action.  Watch More Live Basketball:

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Marian Catholic Holds Entrance Exam for Class of 2017

Eighth-grade students invited to take entrance exam on Jan. 12.

Girls Basketball: Marist Motors to No. 1 in Rankings

High-energy RedHawks improved to 10-0 Wednesday night and claimed the top spot in the Patch Power Rankings.

1. Marist (10-0): The pass-happy RedHawks followed up Monday’s 67-33 demolition of Lockport with a 61-20 rout of Bishop McNamara on Wednesday night. 2. Lincoln-Way East (4-0): Griffins will end a long layoff when they make the trip to Joliet tonight. 3. Marian Catholic (5-2): Six-foot-1 junior Megan Walsh is asserting herself as an inside force. 4. Homewood-Flossmoor (7-3): Senior guard Danielle Woolfolk scored 23 points in H-F’s 56-40 win over Rich Central on Monday and proved once again she can take over games down the stretch. 5. Rich Central (8-3): Olympians were without starting guard Alex Stanford, post player Layne Murphy and coach Bryan Craig in Monday’s loss to H-F. The three were serving IHSA suspensions after being ejected from …

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Football: Marist's Complete Game Too Much for Marian

Redhawks are impressive in all aspects of Friday night's game, and the Spartans are left with a homecoming loss.

Play a complete game. That's what the Marist RedHawks have been waiting to do this season, and on Friday night they did just that. Through an on-and-off drizzle at Marian Catholic, the RedHawks scored through the air, on the ground and on specials teams to earn a 52-27 victory over the Spartans, dampening Marian's homecoming festivities. “We talked about playing a complete game, and it's a thing where our special teams, our offense, our defense, everyone did an absolutely tremendous job (tonight),” Marist head coach Pat Dunne said. Though fireworks were planned for after the game, Marist didn't feel like waiting. The Redhawks lit up the night the very first time they touched the ball. Following a Marian 80-yard touchdown drive that …

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Football: Marist Reigns on Marian Catholic's Homecoming Game

Marist 52, Marian 27: Behind an explosive offense and special teams, the RedHawks run wild over the Spartans.

Breaking It Down: Marist scored five second-half touchdowns to blow open a close game with Marian Catholic on Friday night, and the RedHawks ran away with a 52-27 road victory. Marist's Ryan Meyer continued his stellar season, grabbing three touchdown passes and returning a kickoff 80 yards for another score. Meyer finished with 65 yards on five catches. Quarterback Ian Woodworth threw for 213 yards on 15-of-23 passing with five touchdowns. Jeruel Taylor led the charge for Marian, rushing for 182 yards on 24 carries and finding the end zone once. Patch’s MVP: Ryan Meyer, Marist. The player who never comes off the field for the RedHawks answered Marian's first score with an 80-yard kickoff return touchdown. Then he grabbed three more scores…

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Baseball: Oak Lawn Uses Five-Run Fifth to Top Marian Catholic

Oak Lawn 6, Marian Catholic 2. Spartans advance to Class 4A St. Laurence Regional final, gird for matchup with host Vikings.

Touching All the Bases: Marian Catholic led 2-1 heading into the top of the fifth inning and then the bottom fell out in a 6-2 loss to Oak Lawn on Friday in a semifinal game at the Class 4A St. Laurence Regional. A team that has been plagued with poor fielding all season long picked a bad time to play some of its worst ball. Marian Catholic committed five errors in the inning and allowed Oak Lawn to score five runs. Tony Swistek reached on an error. After a two-strike sacrifice bunt by Steve Childers moved Swistek to second, Oak Lawn looked to tie the game. But it did a whole lot more than that. The next six Oak Lawn hitters reached base, putting the game out of reach. Oak Lawn starting pitcher Bob Kametas was solid, especially after …

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Unbeaten No More, Richards Can Relax and Play Ball

Top-ranked Bulldogs look to set aside regular-season ending setback. Keep an eye on No. 4 Marian Catholic.

1. Richards (28-1): Best thing ever? Or worst possible scenario? Antioch dealt Richards its first loss (3-1 in 8 innings) at the Stone City Jamboree. Now, the Bulldogs will be free of the pressure that comes from trying to protect an undefeated record. They’ll open postseason play vs. Chicago Vocational or Chicago Hyde Park at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. The regional semifinal game will be played at Chicago Maria High School.  Last week: No. 1. 2. Sandburg (24-5): Lora Olson struck out 10 in a 4-0 victory over Bartlett. She also had two hits and drove in one run. Amanda Barna smacked three doubles. The Eagles meet Joliet Central or Shepard at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Shepard Regional. Last week: No. 2. 3. Oak Forest (25-4): A conference loss, a …

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What Rhymes with LeBeau? Twenty-five and oh

Top-ranked Richards follows lead of Northwestern recruit Brianna LeBeau. Sandburg perking in No. 2 slot in weekly power rankings.

1. Richards (25-0): Brianna LeBeau, Kristin Renken, Hannah Jenkins and Nicolle Ellement each had two hits in the Bulldogs’ 11-4 victory over Riverside-Brookfield. LeBeau, a straight-A student and Northwestern recruit, doubled, homered and drove in three runs. Last week: No. 1. 2. Sandburg (19-5): Deuces were wild for Jessica Perkins in the Eagles’ 7-1 victory over Joliet Central. She had two hits, scored two runs and finished with two RBIs. Amanda Barna (4-1) scattered three hits and struck out 1. Last week: No. 2. 3. Stagg (24-5): Lea LaSota pitched a four-hitter and struck out five as the Chargers took the first game of doubleheader from Naperville Central 2-1. Victoria Dellorto went 3-for-3 and stole a base. The Redhawks bounced back to…

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Facing Marian Ace Really No Big Deal for Marist Baseball Team

RedHawks can deal with overpowering stuff on the mound; their challenge is coping with classmate's untimely death.

The Marist baseball team faced a tough challenge when it squared off against Marian Catholic ace Brett Lilek in a 4-1 setback on Monday afternoon.  Lilek is considered one of the best junior pitcher's in the state. Couple that with the fact the RedHawks have struggled to get clutch hits, and one would think the task would prove too much to handle. But the harsh reality of the real world hit the RedHawk program early Friday morning when players learned one of their classmate's--Paul Simmons Jr.--died after collapsing while playing basketball during a senior lock-in at the Southside school. “I can’t speak for the kids on how they feel, but I know their playing with heavy hearts,” RedHawks coach Tom Fabrizio said. Simmons was one of the …

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Baseball: Lilek, Marian Overcome Miscues in Win over Marist

Marian Catholic 4, Marist 1. Spartans commit six early errors, but RedHawks can't take advantage because of overpowering pitching performance turned in by Brett Lilek.

 Touching All the Bases: The Marian Catholic baseball team came out slow, committing six errors in the first three innings, but Marist was only able to scratch across one run and the Spartans regrouped to notch a 4-1 victory on Monday afternoon. Marian Catholic ace Brett Lilek settled down and that spelled the end for the RedHawks. Unlike the RedHawks, the Spartans were able to take advantage of Marist miscues, scoring two runs in the first. Rob Cifelli led off the inning with a walk. He would have been out on a grounder to short by the next hitter, but a RedHawk error opened the door for the Spartans. Byron Munoz doubled, knocking in Cifelli, and Jeff Leppellere drove in another run with a sacrifice fly. The RedHawks finally took …

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