Sports
Oak Forest's Barry Playing for Crestwood Panthers
Recent Oak Forest graduate Tim Barry is testing his slugging ability with a wood bat this summer for the Panthers, whose home games are at Prairie State College.
Recent Oak Forest High School graduate Tim Barry is playing for the Crestwood Panthers this summer. The Panthers are an amateur baseball club that plays home games at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights.
Barry, who has been playing third base, was 2-for-7 on the season heading into Saturday’s home game.
Here is the team’s schedule if you want to go check out a game. The Panthers play in the Northern Illinois and Chicago Suburban baseball leagues and use wood bats.
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Barry, Funkhouser, Sheppard Earn Honors
In other Tim Barry news, the slugger was named first team All-State by the Chicago Tribune for the recently completed high school season. Earlier this week, .
Oak Forest ace Kyle Funkhouser was named second-team All-State by the Tribune, while Bobby Sheppard was named to the All-State special mention team.
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Softball Honors for Naegele, Norton
Emily Naegele was named the SouthtownStar’s Softball Player of the Year, as well as being named to the All-Area Team. Teammate Emily Norton was also named to the All-Area team.
Naegele was also named second-team All-State by the Chicago Tribune.
Bengals’ Maziur on All-Area Volleyball Team
Oak Forest boys volleyball standout Dylan Maziur was named to the SouthtownStar’s All-Area team.
High School Hoops in July
The Oak Forest girls basketball team will play Tinley Park at Allstate Arena on July 19 at 6 p.m. before the Chicago Sky’s WNBA game against Seattle.
