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The Little Ten, Heart of Illinois and Tri-County conferences continued their girls basketball tournaments Monday, with results and leaders here in The Times Monday Roundup.

Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland's Ella Derossett had 23 points, 11 rebounds and five assists to lead her team to an upset win over Fieldcrest in the 44th McLean County/Heart of Illinois Conference Tournament on Saturday. Plus more results from around the Times area.

Paxton Giertz netted 31 points in Seneca's win and Adam Waite scored his 1,000th career point in Earlville's victory on Friday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Seneca, Serena, Earlville, Somonauk/Leland and FCW all scored girls basketball victories, plus more in The Times Thursday Roundup.

Woodstock’s Taqi Baker wasn’t sure if he could wrestle during Thursday’s Kishwaukee River Conference dual meets at Sandwich. He proved to be healthy enough to go, battling back from a prior injury to top Jakob Gruca by 3-0 decision that helped the Blue Streaks get past Sandwich.

The Seneca boys wrestling team rolled to a pair of wins on Wednesday, while the Newark boys basketball squad earned its 10th victory.

As the regular season starts to wind down and the postseason gets closer on the radar, many Times-area boys basketball teams and players are trending up in Brian Hoxsey's boys basketball notebook.

The Seneca boys basketball team outlasted host Coal City for its 15th win of the season on Tuesday, while Serena, Newark and Earlville all claimed LTC victories. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Kaitlyn Davis poured in 31 points to help the Marquette girls basketball team defeat St. Bede in a Tri-County Conference game on Monday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Seneca girls basketball team, with a win over Dwight, improved to 7-1 in Tri-County Conference play on Saturday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Streator boys basketball team picked up a road win at Lisle on Friday to stay unbeaten in Illinois Central Eight Conference play. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Streator's girls bowling, Ottawa's boys bowling and numerous girls basketball teams across The Times area scored Thursday night victories.

Ottawa's Marlie Orlandi sank seven 3-pointers on the way to a game-high 25 points in the Pirates win over Oak Forest on Wednesday. Plus more results from around the Times area.

The Woodland boys basketball team topped visiting Leland on Tuesday night. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Serena boys basketball team defeated Dwight at the United Center in Chicago on Monday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Seneca’s Catalina Pacheco went 3-0, including a pair of pinfalls, to win the 130-pound bracket at the Bolingbrook Invite on Saturday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Sandwich hosted Morris in boys varsity basketball on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025 in Sandwich,

Dom Rome scored 23 points and grabbed six rebounds, and Griffin Somlock hit five 3-pointers as Sandwich continued to shake off a slow start to the season, pulling away to beat Morris for the second time in a little over a week 62-44.

Nonconference wins for Flanagan-Cornell's boys, Fieldcrest's girls and Sandwich's boys led a light night in The Times Friday Roundup.

Ottawa finished runner-up at its own Holiday Hootenanny Girls Wrestling Invite on Monday at Kingman Gymnasium. Morris captured the overall title, while Seneca placed fifth at the 37-team event.

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.

Sandwich boys basketball faced Ottawa on Monday, Dec. 23, 2024 in the Plano Christmas Classic.

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.

Ottawa, which lost a 16-point lead and a nonconference game at Plano last Tuesday, bounced back in the same gym in a big way Monday, running past Sandwich 50-34 in the first game of the 61st Plano Christmas Classic.

Here are the best boys soccer players across The Times coverage area, The 2024 Times All-Area Boys Soccer 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.

Sandwich junior Sunny Weber – who won the school's first girls cross country state championship – is the 2024 Times Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year.

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.

Antoine Gilford, Caidan Ronning and Richie Amakiri each took home individual titles, helping lead Plano to second place behind Yorkville Christian at Plano's Reaper Classic wrestling tournament. Jackson Allen took first for Yorkville Christian.

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

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.

Blake Ides swiped the ball and connected on a layup at the other end, giving the Cogs the lead for good in a 62-60 win on Thursday.

Sandwich coach Kris Cassie, who led the program to back-to-back playoff appearances the last two seasons and a quarterfinal in 2023 after the program had dropped varsity football for a year, has resigned after seven seasons on the job.

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

Here is the 2024 Record Newspapers All-Area football team.

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

Plano senior Vinny Cesario scored a team-high 18 points, his layup off a turnover helping the visiting Reapers finally put away Sandwich 52-44 in the Kishwaukee River Conference opener.

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.

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