Matt Willig is back wearing number 71 for the Carolina Panthers, hoping to lead the team back to the Super Bowl. The 6-8, 315-pound tackle, a 13-year NFL veteran, has played in both of Carolina’s games this season, one win and one loss. Jon Leicester, a 1997 Palisadian-Post Cup winner at Palisades High, is establishing himself as a reliable middle reliever for the Chicago Cubs in their pursuit of the National League wildcard. As of Tuesday, Leicester had a 5-0 record with a 3.79 earned run average and 29 strikeouts in 38 innings since being called up from Triple A Iowa. Spencer Pekar, a fifth-grader at Corpus Christi School, was runner-up in the Boys’ 10-and-under division at the Oxnard Junior Open tournament two weeks ago, qualifying him to compete in the K-Swiss Central Coast Masters next month. On his way to the finals in Oxnard, Pekar defeated Jaime Barajas of Los Angeles, 6-3, 6-1 and Alexander Solonin of Tarzana, 6-4, 6-2. Andrew Jacobi teamed with Salih Unsal to take first place in ‘B’ doubles with a 9-8 (3) victory in the finals of the Middlebury Invitational. Jacobi is a senior for the Middlebury College (Vermont) men’s tennis team. Ari Rosenthal was voted University Athletic Association Athlete of the Week honors at Washington University in St. Louis. Rosenthal, a junior on the Bears’ men’s tennis team, captured the singles championship at the Washington University Invitational last weekend, upending James Chadley of McKendree, 6-4, 6-4, in the finals. Molly Soboroff led the Harvard-Westlake High girls’ varsity volleyball team with seven kills in the Wolverines’ 24-26, 25-23, 25-22, 25-10 nonleague victory over Royal last Tuesday. Soboroff is team captain for Harvard-Westlake.
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