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Parade for Knights Girls Water Polo Champs
The Lincoln-Way Central High School Girls Water Polo team brought home their first-ever trophy from State. The Knights ranked No. 2 at IHSA Water Polo games May 18 in Lincolnshire.
The Lincoln-Way Central High School Girls Water Polo Team brought home the IHSA trophy for second place. The Knights played St. Ignatius May 18 at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire. The final score was 12-9.
While that may have been an emotional loss, there was no sign of it Sunday afternoon.
The girls season was celebrated in a parade Sunday that started in Manhattan at noon and wound through New Lenox. Fire trucks, emergency vehicles, police and car loads of supporters, sporting congratulatoy signs or messages sprayed across car windows told the girls water polo team that they made the school and the community proud.
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The parade halted at Martino Jr. High School, where the girls boarded the top of an emergency truck and pared slowly then to Lincoln-Way Centeral High School for a special ceremony.
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