Stories worth celebrating

Injuries are terrible. They deprive athletes of the chance to enjoy competition with their teammates. They deprive parents and fans the chance to watch their favorite athletes.

So a story about overcoming serious injury is a story to celebrate, and writer Bill McLean did that in his coverage of Prospect’s girls tennis invitational.

Meanwhile, some of the best runners in the state were looking sharp in Palatine.

Dick Quagliano and Craig Brueske round up the weekend’s football action.

Kevin Schmit’s column is worth a few minutes of your time, if you haven’t read it already.

And we’ve got a healthy number of scores, tracked down by Marti Whitehouse. Thank you again to the coaches who email those varsity scores to prepsports@dailyherald.com each night to make it easy on our staff to include in our high school sports coverage.