Ottawa (Marquette) Preps

Results, leaders, all-tournament honorees and more from around the NewsTribune and Times areas Saturday, plus wrestling results from the huge ABE's Rumble in the state capital.

Results, results and more results from Friday's tournament basketball action across The Times and NewsTribune coverage areas.

Seneca senior Paxton Giertz scored 26 points, including his 2,000th of his career, as the Fighting Irish rolled past Earlville at the Shipyard Showdown Tournament on Thursday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Fieldcrest's Macy Gochanour poured in a career-high 46 points to led Fieldcrest to a 69-56 Heart of Illinois Conference win over Fisher on Monday.

Here are 41 of the best girls volleyball players across The Times coverage area, The 2024 Times All-Area Girls Volleyball Team.

The Serena girls basketball won at Putnam County on Saturday, while the Streator and Seneca boys squads suffered losses.

Paxton Giertz poured in 30 points to help Seneca top Midland on Friday, while Somonauk, Serena and Fieldcrest also earned wins. Streator girls capture first win of the season. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Serena girls basketball team defeated Marquette on Thursday, while Somonauk/Leland earned a comeback win. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

We are proud to present The Times 2024 All-Area Football Team, with 22 first-team selections and 22 more honored as second-teamers from area teams Marquette, Seneca, Streator, Sandwich, Ottawa, Fieldcrest and Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland.

Seneca's Alyssa Zellers scored a game-best 18 points to help the Fighting Irish defeat host Serena on Wednesday. Plus more results from around the Times area.

Woodland wins a close one, Sandwich topples Serena, Dwight beats Newark and more scores in the roundup.

The 2024 Times All-Area Girls and Boys Golf Honor Roll, a list filled with postseason advancers and tournament champions.

The Marquette girls basketball team, led by 14 points from Hunter Hopkins, defeated Putnam County in a Tri-County Conference game on Monday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Times area saw wrestlers from Seneca, Sandwich and the Streator co-op win individual championships Saturday, plus Ottawa boys basketball won and more.

Connor Dodge scored 24 points, and Woodland's boys hit 17-of-18 free throws in the fourth quarter to hold off Marquette.

Flanagan-Cornell, Leland, Serena and Fieldcrest boys basketball were all winners Friday night. That and more in the Times Friday roundup.

Serena, Marquette and Seneca girls basketball all scored victories, plus more from across the area in The Times Thursday Roundup.

Tom Jobst, who in 2010 took over a Marquette Academy football program that had suffered through eight consecutive losing seasons and turned it into a perennial Class 1A powerhouse, is retiring as head coach of the Crusaders.

Ottawa's boys bowling team defeated rival La Salle-Peru, plus more from around the area in The Times Wednesday Roundup.

It was a packed day of basketball and wrestling around The Times Area on Tuesday.

Both Seneca and Marquette's girls basketball teams picked up Monday night conference wins, plus more from around The Times area.

Seneca's boys wrestling team placed fourth at its own Irish Invitational, Streator's girls wrestlers were seventh at the inaugural Girls PIT, plus more from around The Times area Saturday.

A roundup of Friday night's action across The Times area, including boys basketball conference (and season) openers as well as Seneca boys wrestling scoring a pair of triumphs.

Seneca started out shooting cold, but played tough defense to register a win over Marquette on Thursday night.

Wins for Streator girls wrestling, Seneca boys wrestling and Ottawa boys bowling are just a few of the results in Thursday's Times Roundup.

The Sandwich boys wrestling team topped Lisle and Ottawa on Wednesday in the Times area, while the Somonauk boys basketball squad defeated visiting Reed-Custer.

The Woodland boys basketball team made 15 shots from beyond the arc in a 78-52 victory over visiting LaMoille on Tuesday. Plus, more results from around The Times area.

Seneca senior guard Alyssa Zellers scored 26 points - including knocking down a program-tying record eight 3-pointers — on Monday in a Tri-County Conference win over Henry-Senachwine. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Seneca uses defense to gain separation from Marquette and win the inaugural Husker Hardwood Tip-Off Tourney championship.

The Flanagan-Cornell boys basketball won the title of the Route 17 Classic, while Woodland finished third on Saturday in Dwight. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Marquette Crusaders held off Serena to reach Saturday's 5:30 p.m. championship game against rival Seneca, also a winner Friday.

Newark in Serena and Sandwich in Sycamore secured their first wins of the 2024-25 boys basketball season, and more in The Times Friday Roundup.

Girls wrestling and boys basketball competed the fay before Thanksgiving, and here are results in The Times Wednesday Roundup.

The Woodland and Flanagan-Cornell boys basketball teams improve to 2-0 at Route 17 Classic on Tuesday, while Serena won in OT and Leland rolled to a second straight win. Plus, more results from the Times area.

The Somonauk, Woodland, Leland and Flanagan-Cornell boys basketball teams captured season-opening wins on Monday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Seneca girls basketball team defeated Peoria Manual in the third-place game of the Falcon-Irish Thanksgiving Tournament on Saturday, while Fieldcrest finished 5th and Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland 7th.

Earlville's girls got a win at Illinois Match & Science Academy, Amboy/LaMoille/Ohio repeated as Illinois 8-Man Football Association state champions, plus more in The Times Friday Roundup.

The Serena girls basketball team defeated Seneca in overtime, while Marquette topped Flanagan-Cornell on Thursday night. Plus, more from around the Times area.

The 2024-25 Marquette Crusaders are building a new rotation around returnees Alec Novotney and Griffin Dobberstein.

At Somonauk’s Tim Humes Breakout, the host Somonauk/Leland Bobcats fell to 0-2 with a loss to the Sandwich Indians, plus more in our Wednesday Roundup.

The Marquette and Ottawa girls basketball teams earned tournament wins on Tuesday to improve to 2-0 on the season.

Ottawa, Serena and Seneca girls basketball all scored season-opening wins Monday, plus more from around The Times area.

The first day of the girls basketball season brought hard-earned victories for both Marquette and Fieldcrest, which both used big middle quarters and then held on late in the Falcon-Irish Thanksgiving Tournament.

At the Geneseo Invitational on Saturday, the Ottawa Pirates placed fifth of 12 competing teams.

Marquette's girls basketball team lost its top star to graduation, but looks to have another waiting in the wings as well as a strong supporting cast.

A roundup of high school sports for The Times area from Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2024.

At the IHSA State Finals Meet hosted at Peoria's Detweiller Park on Saturday, after second- and third-place state finishes the past two years, Sandwich junior Sunny Weber brought home the individual championship.

Galena used run blitzes to take away MA’s sweeps, then used its size to make anything up the middle increasingly difficult and wound up holding the Cru to just 42 ground yards on 40 carries to eliminate Marquette from the 1A playoffs.

Here's a look at the second-round playoff matchups awaiting Seneca and Dwight/Gardner-South Wilmington in Class 2Along with Marquette in the 1A field.

The seniors on the Marquette football team are helping the underclassmen contribute to their 1A postseason trip – a yearly tradition for the Crusaders, as has been making the playoffs these past 12 years.