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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2013

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Marian Central ousts Johnsburg in sweep CL South rallies in Game 2 to beat rival CL Central

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PLAYOFFS Dundee-Crown’s turnaround the result of three years of hard work

Sarah Nader – snader@shawmedia.com

Marian’s Rachel Giustino

Hultgren touts new health bill Says legislation aims to resolve broken ‘promise’ By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com

Lathan Goumas – lgoumas@shawmedia.com

ABOVE: Dundee-Crown’s Caleb Parson (20) celebrates with teammates after scoring a touchdown during the second quarter of their Oct. 25 game against Jacobs at Jacobs High School in Algonquin. This season, the Chargers won six games and lost three, and will compete in the playoffs. TOP: Dundee-Crown fans cheer for their football team during the Oct. 18 game against McHenry in Carpentersville.

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ARPENTERSVILLE – Fabian Gutierrez has had a difficult time concentrating on his classwork this week at Dundee-Crown. You would, too, if you were part of the school’s first playoff football team since 1994. “I’m not behind,” Gutierrez said with a sheepish grin Thursday before heading to practice as a senior defensive back for the Chargers. “I just wouldn’t say I’ve been doing the best work lately. It’s hard. It’s been a big week.” Hundreds of area football players surely understand. The first round of the Illinois High School Association football playoffs kicks off Friday and Saturday, and 10 teams from across the region have qualified for the postseason. Each team’s mission is simple – survive and advance – as championship weekend looms at the end of November at DeKalb’s Huskie Stadium. Every playoff team offers a great story, but D-C’s might be the most compelling. Not so long ago, the Chargers foot-

Watch a live webcast of Jacobs vs. Conant in a first-round playoff game at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

The Huddle Marian Central senior Ephraim Lee, the area’s second leading rusher, joins The Huddle to talk about the ‘Canes. Marian takes on Bremen in the first round on Friday. ball program was in shambles. Forget about finishing the season with a winning record. D-C was lucky if it won a single game. Between 2006 and 2011, the Chargers won six games and lost 39. This season, they won six games and lost three. And they’re still playing. All of a sudden, those 5:30 a.m. alarm buzzers for 6:10 a.m. weightlifting sessions have proven to be completely worthwhile. Students who were not alive in 1994 have buoyed a program that has not been alive in the playoffs since that year.

“It’s really good to see all of our hard work finally start paying off,” said Sam Franckowiak, a senior strong safety and team captain. “We’ve been working as a team in the offseason, during the summer, waking up early and all that stuff. “It’s nice to see what we’ve worked for all come together.” It has come together under head coach Vito Andriola, a demanding leader who has changed the culture of D-C football since his arrival three seasons ago. Andriola previously had served as a head coach at Grayslake and an assistant coach at Glenbard South, and he took a hefty pay cut for the chance to lead D-C. Building a winning team is hard work, and change proved to be difficult. During Andriola’s first season at D-C, 28 players quit the team. It would have been 27, but another player quit on the eve of the final game of the season. The transition was as rocky for some parents as it was for some players. “I had a parent yell at me, ‘You practice like you’re trying to win the state championship!’ ” Andriola said, shaking his head in exasperation. “Think of that. That’s like a parent going, ‘You’re teaching my kid like you want him to be smart!’ ”

See CHARGERS, page A4

Congressman Randy Hultgren has joined a Republican-led effort that could allow millions of Americans to keep their current insurance plans in 2014, even if they would have been dropped because of the new health care law. Hultgren, R-Winfield, has co-sponsored the “Keep Your Health Plan Act,” a bill introduced Monday that would allow any insurance plans in effect in 2013 to continue through 2014. The bill comes after people in the individual or small-business insurance marketplaces are starting to receive cancellation notices from insurers, who say their current plans come Jan. 1 won’t cover certain “essential” health care services required by the Affordable Care Act. Hultgren said the bill seizes on a broken promise made by President Barack Obama in 2009 and repeated throughout his 2012 re-election campaign. “This bill is a response to promises made to my constituents that are not being kept,” Hultgren told the Northwest Herald.

U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Winfield

Related Six informational sessions on the Affordable Care Act and McHenry County residents’ insurance options will be offered in November by the McHenry County Department of Health. PAGE B1

See HEALTH BILL, page A4

Gay marriage vote urged in Ill. The ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO – After months of energetic lobbying, both sides in the Illinois same-sex marriage debate are ready for a vote next week that supporters say would fulfill a pledge by the sponsor to bring the issue back to Springfield. Anticipating a likely vote during the final week of the veto session, some lawmakers previously on the fence have announced their position on the question. Others are quickly drafting proposed changes so they can support the bill. More activists are calling for immediate action. And even opponents are planning for fallout ahead of the campaign season.

At issue The Illinois Senate passed a measure allowing gay marriage on Valentine’s Day, but it was never called for a vote in the House because sponsor Rep. Greg Harris said he didn’t have the 60 needed votes.

See MARRIAGE, page A4

LOCALLY SPEAKING

Kyle Grillot – kgrillot@shawmedia.com

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D-26 MAY WITHDRAW FROM SEDOM Cary-based School District 26, which has had fewer and fewer students enrolled in the Special Education District of McHenry County, anticipates it will request to withdraw from SEDOM in a year or two. District 26 has developed and implemented its own special education programming over the past seven years. For more, see page B1.

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