Recruiting Wrap

Weekend Wrap - Week 3

Posted by: Jeremy Werner

Monday, September 14, 2009 8:56 AM

Every Monday during the prep football season, IlliniHQ.com will give a wrap-up of how Illini commits and targets fared during the previous weekend's games. Here are a few highlights from last weekend.

THE COMMITS

• Future Illini quarterback CHANDLER WHITMER threw for 188 yards and three touchdowns to lead Downers Grove South to a 42-25 win over Leyden on Friday. Whitmer traveled to Champaign on Saturday to attend the Illinois season opener against Illinois State.
• CJ FIEDOROWICZ had five two touchdown receptions (27 yards and 16 yards) to help lead Johnsburg to a 55-7 rout of Dundee-Crown on Friday night. The 6-foot-7 Fiedorowicz, ranked the No. 5 tight end in the country by Rivals.com, finished with four catches for 64 yards.
• Defensive back DEXTER McDONALD, an Illini commit, and the Rockhurst (Mo.) defense bounced back from a 55-27 defeat to Hutchinson last week to defeat top-ranked Blue Springs 17-3 on Friday night. McDonald had three interceptions in Rockhurst's week one victory.
• Illini commit MICHAEL HEITZ and South Fulton picked up their first victory of the season with a 41-7 rout of Unity/Payson. HEITZ, a 6-foot-6, 260-pound offensive tackle committed to Illinois earlier this month.
• Illinois commit COREY COOPER were routed by rival Proviso West 44-7 on Friday. Close friend and USC commit KYLE PRATER caught two touchdown passes (57 and 45 yards) against Cooper, a safety, and the Pirates secondary.
• Future Illinois offensive lineman ANDY GALLIK and Brother Rice defeated St. Rita 35-14 on Friday. Gallik, a 6-foot-2, 290-pound offensive lineman, committed to Illinois in June and was in attendance at Saturday's Illinois-Illinois State game.
• Illini commit SHAWN AFRYL, an offensive lineman, and Niles West picked up their first win of the season with 36-6 victory over Maine East. Afryl (6-foot-3, 300 pounds) committed to the Illini in April and will likely play guard in college.
• MARK WILSON, a linebacker committed to Illinois, and the Tallahassee (Fla.) Lincoln defense held Port Orange Spruce Creek to just 104 yards of offense in a 28-3 win on Friday night.

TARGETS - How some of the Illinois recruiting targets played last weekend

• Offensive tackle SEAN HICKEY and Murrysville (Pa.) Franklin Regional lost to Ambridge 16-13 on Friday. Hickey has plans to commit to one of three schools: Illinois, Boston College or Syracuse.
• Memphis (Tenn.) Christian Brothers fullback JONATHAN BROWN ran for a two-yard touchdown to help lead his team to a 27-0 win over top-ranked White Station on Friday. Brown, being recruited by Illinois as a linebacker, also led a Christian Brothers defense that shut out the White Station offense and held them to just 147 yards of total offense.
• Shiloh Christian (Ark.) linebacker MITCHELL ROBERTS and the Shiloh Christian Saints defeated Tulsa (Okla.) Lincoln Christian 41-24 on Friday. Roberts has offers from Illinois and Tulsa. Read more about Roberts in Tuesday's Recruiting Wrap.

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