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Marquette defeated St. Bede 65-60 on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026 at St. Bede Academy. Check out photos from the game by MaKade Rios.

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Teams from Bradley-Bourbonnais, Reed-Custer, Herscher, Kankakee McNamara, Kankakee High School, La Salle-Peru, Minooka, Ottawa, St. Bede, Hall, and Streator all competed during the IHSA boys bowling regionals on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026 at the Illinois Valley Super Bowl in Peru.

Top-seeded Princeton Logan defeated LaSalle Lincoln 58-39 to capture the Starved Rock Conference eighth-grade championship Thursday at Peru Parkside.

Here's a look at Bureau County boys statistical leaders including Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede based on available stats

University of Dubuque's Grady Thompson was named as the American Rivers Conference Men’s Basketball Athlete of the Week. The all-stater from Princeton averaged 21 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists and was 12-13 at the line (92.3%) for the Spartans

BCR Sports Editor Kevin Hieronymus takes a look of the Princeton Masters Bowling Tournament of Honor Roll through 2026. Jim Nack won the first tournament in 1957, also winning four years later in 1961

According to the Sports Business Journal, numbers for girls basketball are down 19% since 2002, while track and field grew by 10%, volleyball by 15% and soccer by 27%. Despite the “Caitlin Clark Effect,” what was once the most popular girls’ sport now ranks fourth.

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Newman's girls basketball team took a 56-41 victory over Princeton Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026.

Princeton rallied for a Three Rivers crossover victory in Orion by outscoring the Chargers 13-6 in the fourth quarter.