Illinois/Minnesota differences

#1 posting 4.12.2006

MN RESULTS
St. Paul Highland Park lost its first match of the season yesterday to St. Paul Central 4-3. That leaves St. Paul Harding as the only undefeated team left in the state. Harding beat Como Park 6-1, and Humboldt edged Johnson 4-3 in St. Paul City action.
In Minneapolis city action Henry and Roosevelt both swept Edison and North respectively 7-0 (you can check out the Henry/Edison game in yesterday's posting). No word on South and Southwest.
In non-con action the suburbs split with the city as Burnsville swept Washburn 7-0, while St. Paul Arlington gave the city folks a win agains Eden Prairie 4-3. Arlington is now 3-1.

TOMORROW'S ACTION
St. Paul Harding takes its show on the road to Burnsville for a triangular with Eden Prairie
In St. Paul action:
Central travels to Johnson; Como Park faces Humboldt; and Highland Park plays Arlington in a battle of teams with one loss each.
In Minneapolis action:
Southwest is at Edison; Henry travels to South; and Washburn is at North

ILLINOIS STYLE
In Illinois games are played to 15, not 7, so a final score could be (and was)
Palatine 8, Conant 7 or Glenbrook South 15, Waukegan 0
There are 85 high school teams playing badminton in Illinois

When deciding state champions they will take the individual results and doubles results, add them together and come up with a champion. Tinley Park was state champ last year with a total score of 10.5--5 points from singles, 5.5 from doulbes.
The defending individual single champ is Karishma Kollipara, Chicago Latin. She is a sophomore this year.
There will be a new doubles champ as Katie Batkiewicz & Meghan LaVallie, Downers Grove North both graduated.
The state tournament will be May 12 and 13 at Eastern Illinois
Here is the Illinois Badminton page from the IHSA
http://www.ihsa.org/activity/bad/index.htm

HIGH SCHOOL PREVIEWS
IL
Here is a look at some suburban Chicago schools, who the coaches are, and some key players. This is from the Beacon News http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/sports/2_2_AU11_BADMINTON_S1.asp

INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT
VIET NAM
The Robot Vietnam Satellite championships will take place April 19th to 23rd in Saigon. Here is the Saigon Times with details on some of the world's top players http://www.saigontimes.com.vn/daily/detail.asp?muc=3&Sobao=2667&SoTT=16

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