Carlo Gozzi, president of Flossmoor Baseball and Softball, ended his opening day remarks Saturday, April 22, urging players and families to “bring back the ’90s,” a pitch for embracing community and setting aside the disunity often found on social media these days. The season-opening traditions of the organization certainly conjure[Read More…]
Sports
Park board OKs purchase of golf carts, ball field groomer
The Homewood-Flossmoor Park District approved equipment purchases that will help improve baseball fields and parks, and guarantee that most every golfer wanting a cart at Coyote Run will have one. Tom Denklau, golf course manager, told the park board the 68 golf carts at Coyote Run aren’t enough. Since the[Read More…]
Youth football and cheer programs merge
The area’s two youth football and cheerleading programs are merging, the Homewood-Flossmoor Junior Vikings and Kings announced April 12. The new organization will be called the Homewood Flossmoor Youth Football and Cheerleading Club. “The biggest reason to do this was to combine resources,” HFYFCC President Martez Harding said. “Now we[Read More…]
Opening day festivities Saturday to launch youth baseball, softball season
Ballplayers will parade through Homewood and Flossmoor on Saturday morning, April 22, before congregating at their respective fields for ceremonial first pitches, prizes and then the first games of the season. Parade lineup in Flossmoor will begin at 8:45 a.m., and the players start marching from the Parker Junior High[Read More…]
Ballard’s bat provides key spark for H-F baseball
The last couple of seasons, Jason Ballard had to fight for at-bats. He usually found himself toward the bottom of the Homewood-Flossmoor lineup, so he was just trying to get on base, move runners along and set the table for the older run producers at the top. Now a senior,[Read More…]
Volunteers needed for BMW Championship
Golf enthusiasts, you have a chance to be part of the BMW Championship at Olympia Fields Country Club this summer by serving as a volunteer. The event taking place Aug. 15 through 20 will have the top 70 golfers on the PGA Tour playing to win. The BMW Championship is[Read More…]
H-F senior wins college scholarship from the Blackhawks
Makenzie Russell, a senior at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, was awarded the Keith Magnuson Blackhawk Alumni High School Hockey Scholarship Award. The award will give Makenzie $30,000 over her four years in college. She plans to attend Western Michigan University majoring in aviation flight science. Makenzie was selected based on her[Read More…]
Dismukes ‘happy and content’ with first season at H-F
All things considered, people around Homewood-Flossmoor High School boys basketball consider this season a successful one. Coach Jamere Dismukes was hired only about a month before the first day of practice after previously accepting a job at Rich. The Vikings didn’t get the usual offseason training, open gyms or summer[Read More…]
Hidden Gem named CARA race of the year
Runners love Flossmoor’s Hidden Gem Half Marathon. So many of them love the race that the Chicago Area Runners Association named the Gem the race of the year for 2022. The honor is the latest achievement in the Gem’s rapid rise as a premier race in the Chicagoland running world.[Read More…]
H-F wrestling senior class finishes with three state qualifiers
When the wrestling class of 2023 arrived at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, the Vikings program wasn’t the most well-regarded in the area. It was usually lucky to see more than an individual or two advance in the postseason. That’s all changed. The seniors leave the program as a respected one that[Read More…]