Retiring may be on standby for Oak Park and River Forest head basketball coach Al Allen.

Oak Park and River Forest High School tipped off its season with two victories at the Willowbrook tournament on Friday and Saturday, defeating Northside Prep and Maine East?#34;both by a score of 66-30.

A season in which the Fenwick football team exceeded expectations came to an end Friday night, as the Friars fell to Catholic League counterpart Brother Rice 21-0 in the semifinals of the Prep Bowl playoffs. 

The wrestling room at Fenwick hasn't had much activity in the last couple of weeks, despite the start of the wrestling season.

The Windy City Water Polo girls' 14-and-under Speedo Cup team won the Midwest Zone Championship, held at Stevenson High School. The team, sponsored by Fenwick High School, will travel to St. Louis for the USA Water Polo Speedo Cup National Championship.

Here it is a new season and Trinity is again marred by a coaching controversy. Out is Abby Conklin, this coach resigning--not unlike her predecessor Jason Nichols who was let go, and in is Don Sansone, the older brother of the team's starting guard. A conflict of interest?

The Fenwick swim team welcomed its opponents to the Oak Park Sectional by winning 9 of 12 events on Saturday, and taking first place (323) for the third consecutive season.

If that particular ancient Roman scholar were to chronicle the recent successes of the Oak Park and River Forest high school boys' soccer program, Pliny's Naturalis Historia de Huskie Futbol<I> would indeed be a slim volume. Conversations with the school's coaches in years past (no Latin spoken here) have cited the lack of technical and tactical skills of incoming players as a root cause. However, the next chapter is being written as we speak, with an improved club soccer program producing fundamentally sound players. 

Experience is Oak Park and River Forest's main advantage this year. The basketball team returns seven players, including Brittany Marshall, to a team that went 18-15 last year and yet again forced opponents to consider the Huskies a formidable threat.

The Oak Park River Forest Huskies hockey club snapped a three-game Metro West losing streak on Sunday night by trouncing Fenwick 2  8-1 at Ridgeland Common.