Mount Carmel and Lemont move up a spot, while Homewood-Flossmoor enters the rankings.

Top 10

With records through Sunday and previous rankings in parentheses.

1. St. Laurence 28-1 (1): Behind the hot hitting of Kentucky recruit Tristan Steger, the Vikings sweep St. Rita and Providence and extend their winning streak to 25 games.

2. Lincoln-Way East 24-3 (2):Nathan Kaminski gets his moment to shine, ripping a pinch-hit grand slam to highlight the Griffins’ 12-2 win over Stagg.

3. Lockport 20-7 (3):Austin Winge strikes out 12 in complete-game effort as the Porters stay perfect in SouthWest Suburban Conference play with a 4-2 win over Lincoln-Way West.

4. Brother Rice 21-8 (4): Texas A&M recruit Brady Cunningham helps the Crusaders sweep Providence before a Catholic League Blue-deciding series this week with St. Laurence.

5. Mount Carmel 20-10 (6): Miami commit Ian Tosi continues strong comeback from 2025’s season-ending injury, allowing just one run over five innings in 10-1 win over DePaul Prep.

6. Lemont 22-3 (7):Cannon Madej shuts down Lincoln-Way West, with all runs unearned in 10-3 victory, extending Lemont’s winning streak to 13 games.

7. Lincoln-Way West 18-6 (5):Michael Petit and the Warriors look to bounce back and stay in the SouthWest Suburban Conference race with Lockport, Lincoln-Way Central up next.

8. Sandburg 16-8 (8): Senior right-hander Noah Highfill throws four strong innings, striking out six and allowing just one hit in the Eagles’ 7-1 win over Plainfield East.

9. St. Rita 19-8 (9): Plenty of ups and downs for the Mustangs, who go 3-3 in a busy week, highlighted by complete-game shutout from Danny Corona in 8-0 win over Rich Township.

10. Homewood-Flossmoor 15-10 (NR): Senior catcher Kamari Dawkins delivers walk-off double in 8-7 victory over Lincoln-Way Central, the first of four wins in four days for the Vikings.

Player of the Week

Freshman catcher/infielder Terrell Hampton-Hall goes 9-for-12 with five runs, four doubles, a triple, a home run and 10 RBIs for De La Salle over four games, all wins.

Logansport senior Adrienne Scott has won a national award from the National High School Strength Coaches Association.

Scott was recently named an NNHSCA Kevin Vanderbush All-American Award winner.

This award is given annually to a current senior high school athlete who has demonstrated outstanding achievement on and off the field in strength and conditioning, athletic performance, academics and leadership.

She is one of eight girls from Indiana and 63 in the nation to win the award.

She had to meet certain numbers for power clean (150 pounds), back squat (250 pounds), bench press (150 pounds), trap bar deadlift (280 pounds), 40 yard dash, pro agility (4.68 seconds) and vertical jump (24.7 inches).

Aside from that, factored in was her 3.9 GPA, leadership responsibilities, individual and team honors, sport success and letters of recommendation from both her sport coaches and the strength coach.

She is a three-sport athlete, participating in softball, volleyball and gymnastics, and she is one of the best athletes in the area in each of those sports.

Standing in at 5-foot-2, 125 pounds, she is pound-for-pound the strongest girl at LHS.

Logansport strength coach Nick Price nominated Scott for the award.

“I believe it’s the sixth or seventh year that this award has been in place,” Price said. “It actually got recently renamed the Kevin Vanderbush All-American Award, which Kevin Vanderbush is a legendary coach from Ben Davis. He’s who we call the godfather of strength and conditioning coaches for high school athletics. So it’s a great honor to have his name on that award, too, and have your name attached to it. Strict criteria goes into the award. It’s a great honor.”

Scott credited Price for his role in her winning her award.

“I’ve been lifting since my eighth grade year, but I didn’t really take it serious until high school. Price has a great program. He’s really encouraging. He wants to make you better, so he just did that for me,” she said.

Logansport currently has the second-ranked softball team in Class 3A and Scott is the team’s starting center fielder. She said several of her teammates lift weights as well and take a weights class in school.

“I know Gracie (Risley) does. Brooklynn (Hagerty) lifts with the football weights because she’s the manager, so that’s got to be good for her. But I think a lot of the underclassmen are in weights, so I think they’ll all show a lot of improvement over the years on the field and just lifting just makes a huge improvement when you’re an athlete,” she said.

Scott has experienced a recent power surge at the plate herself. She recently hit the first home run of her career over the fence against Western’s Lucy George, who is set to pitch at Michigan. Scott has four home runs on the season, two that have went over the fence.

“I hit one in practice last year but in games I never really came close,” she said. “This year I finally broke the curse and did it.

“I never thought it was possible for me to hit a home run, but I think strength definitely helps. I mean, obviously your swing and everything falls into it too, but strength is a big part of it.”

Scott leads the Berries in hits (26), runs scored (24) and triples (2), is second in batting average (.473), on-base percentage (.517), stolen bases (5) and doubles (5) and third in home runs (4), RBIs (14), slugging percentage (.855) and OPS (1.372).

“She is a natural athlete,” Logansport coach Molly Sterrett said. “I don’t know how she does it, but she can hit a ball about anywhere in the zone and make it look easy. So I’m really happy for her and proud of her for the work she’s contributed thus far. And I’m looking forward to the next part of our season.”

Scott is also a standout defensive player in center field.

“She’s very seamless, very fluid. She again, she makes it look easy,” Sterrett said.

The Berries are 16-1 and are favored to repeat as Hoosier Conference champions. They will also be favored to win the upcoming Logansport Sectional. They won a Class 4A sectional title two years ago.

“I’m hoping that we make it all the way,” Scott said. “It’d be awesome to win a state championship or even regionals or semi-state, but I think we definitely can do it with the teams we’ve been beating and the competition we’ve been playing. I think we can do it.”

After high school Scott plans on attending Purdue University and majoring in medical laboratory sciences. She added she’d like to try to walk on to the Purdue softball team if she gets the opportunity.

“I’ve thought about trying to walk on. If I get the opportunity it’d be amazing and I’d do it. But I just got to keep working,” she said.

She has put in hard work in the weight room.

“She holds all of the all-time records for our weight class for her weight class,” Price said. “She’s setting the standard high for the next girls coming up. She’s been in my class and she’s hardly missed a day in the last four years. She just works extremely hard, and it’s just great to have those athletes in the room to be a good example for the younger athletes. So we’ve been very blessed to have her.”

ARLINGTON, Texas — It was an ordinary day in an extraordinary run for the Chicago Cubs.

Another 10-game winning streak was in the books Friday after a 7-1 win over the Texas Rangers before 32,394 at Globe Life Field, the second such run of the season for a Cubs team that continues to defy baseball norms.

Ben Brown threw four hitless innings in his first start for the injured Matthew Boyd, and Javier Assad notched the win with 3 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing one hit. Pete Crow-Armstrong made the Rangers’ “Elvis Cam” after catching a sinking liner in center and waved to Ian Happ as he lay on the grass.

3 numbers that stand out in the Chicago Cubs’ 9-game winning streak: ‘It’s pretty special’

And Nico Hoerner did another “Nico thing,” winding up on second when the Rangers middle infielders collided on a grounder up the middle and failed to notice he hadn’t stopped running.

Don’t try to understand it. Just let the wave wash over you and enjoy.

It’s crazy to think this was the first Cubs team since 1935 with a pair of 10-game winning streaks, right?

“Not necessarily,” said Seiya Suzuki, whose two-run home run in the fourth inning sparked the offense early. “We’re just playing our brand of baseball and just weighting the wins. Hopefully we just keep stacking them up.”

The Cubs are celebrating their 150th birthday this season, and according to MLB stats czar Sarah Langs, they’ve had six other seasons with multiple 10-plus-game winning streaks: 1880, 1885, 1886, 1906, 1901 and, as mentioned, 1935. In 1906, they had four double-digit winning streaks in a 116-win season but wound up losing to the White Sox team known as the “Hitless Wonders” in the only all-Chicago World Series.

“Obviously incredible,” Hoerner said of the streak. “It’s crazy. Baseball is a game full of a ridiculous amount of stats and things to look up. Any time you have to go that far back, it’s obviously a good sign, especially on a positive like that.

“Just going to keep it rolling.”

The Cubs already were the first major-league team with multiple nine-plus-game winning streaks since the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, who were on their way to their first World Series title.

Oh, and there are still three more weeks in May.

“It gives you goosebumps,” Brown said. “It’s special to be part of. It’s special to witness, special to watch.”

The Cubs have won 20 of their last 23 games, improving to an MLB-best 27-12.

They led 4-1 in the seventh Friday when Hoerner led off with a grounder that shortstop Corey Seager botched while running into Justin Foscue, who was charged with the error. The ball trickled behind second, and Hoerner kept going, hustling his way to second.

“That’s Nico,” manager Craig Counsell said. “If there is a play maybe that they show about Nico’s career, they should show that play, because that’s just who he is. That was a great play.”

Hoerner said it was mostly a matter of instinct and something the Cubs are always looking to do at any moment.

“There was not really any thinking or communication on things like that (while) baserunning,” he said. “Always looking to take extra bases and capitalize on opportunities. Our team plays the game pretty hard and always looks for extra bases. … There are always opportunities to seize.”

Seizing the opportunity has been a recurring theme of this year’s Cubs. The pitching staff has been folded, spindled and mutilated but keeps on trucking. Brown started Friday on a bullpen day, knowing he wouldn’t last long but treasuring the opportunity.

Brown said he was able to go out and “play free” and with “nothing to lose.” He lowered his ERA to 1.82 with his first scoreless start since a six-inning stint on May 2, 2025, in Milwaukee. His value as a late-inning leverage guy had to be sacrificed due to the Cubs’ need for a starter after Boyd underwent left meniscus surgery that will sideline him for about six weeks.

“We couldn’t have asked for anything more,” Counsell said of Brown.

Counsell wouldn’t guarantee Brown a start in Atlanta next week but said he’d “be involved in it somehow.” Hard to believe he wouldn’t give him another shot.

Last year the Cubs went into September without losing more than three straight games until a five-game skid from Sept. 19-24. This year they won 10 straight, suffered a three-game losing streak on April 25-27 in Los Angeles and San Diego and now have whipped off 10 straight wins again.

“Look, I think this is a group that’s collectively playing at a high level,” Counsell said. “From a position-player standpoint I think we’re very well-rounded, and that leads to consistency. It doesn’t lead to winning streaks, but it leads to (the fact) you don’t go in long ruts because we have the ability to beat you in a number of different ways offensively, so it’s not just the home run, it’s not just the speed or something like that.

“And we’ve pitched well. If you go back to the starters, we’re not well everywhere pitching, but the starters getting us outs at the start of the game has been a really big part of this thing. All the bullpen chaos and the name-switching and injuries and only one off day really in this whole stretch … the starters getting deep into games is what really sets that up to be possible to happen, in my eyes. And the defense helps the starters so much in that regard too.”

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The Cubs on Friday activated Ethan Roberts, who suffered a freak injury to his right middle finger while working out in mid-April, and sent Gavin Hollowell down to Triple-A Iowa. Roberts pitched a scoreless ninth.

Lefty Caleb Thielbar threw a bullpen Friday and is closer to returning from his left hamstring strain, though he’ll probably go on a minor-league rehab stint in a week. Hunter Harvey had a setback while rehabbing a right triceps injury and will be shut down for another month.

The bullpen chaos has only added to the wild ride, with many different players playing a role.

“People stepping up in roles they maybe weren’t expected to,” Hoerner said, adding, “you’d think there would be two or three stars” carrying the group in two streaks like this.

“We’re fortunate to have a group that has star talent,” he said. “But every part of the roster has been huge for us in big moments in parts of these streaks. And that’s what it takes for a whole season and beyond.”