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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.

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.

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.

Somonauk junior Landin Stillwell – who won the school's first boys cross country state medal – is the 2024 Times Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With boys basketball season starting across the state Monday, here is a look at the 2024-25 season for teams across The Times coverage 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 La Salle-Peru girls basketball team broke open a tight game with Somonauk-Leland after the first quarter and eventually earned a 52-21 victory on Friday at the Tim Humes Breakout Tournament at Somonauk High School.

L-P defeated Somonauk 52-21 during the Tim Humes Breakout Tournament on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024 at Somonauk High School.

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

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.

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

With girls basketball season starting across the state Monday, here is a look at the 2024-25 season for teams across The Times coverage area.

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.

Ottawa's Shaylen Quinn, the Seneca girls team, Sandwich’s Sunny Weber, Somonauk’s Landin Stilwell and Fieldcrest’s Caleb Krischel all earned trips to next weekend's state meet in Peoria at Saturday's sectionals.

The Marquette girls volleyball team defeated host Illinois Lutheran 25-18, 25-10 to capture the Class 1A regional championship on Thursday night.

In the semifinals of the Class 1A Serena Regional, the top-seeded Newark Norsemen dominated the first and third sets on their way to a 25-10, 23-25, 25-8 victory and a trip to Thursday's championship match.

Marquette, Seneca, Woodland, Serena all secured postseason victories Tuesday, plus more in The Times Tuesday Roundup.

The Sandwich girls volleyball team defeated Mendota, while Fieldcrest fell to Illinois Valley Central in Class 2A regional quarterfinals, while in Class 1A Flanagan-Cornell lost to Dwight on Monday.

The Seneca girls cross country team won a 1A regional title and Sandwich's Sunny Weber captured a 2A individual XC regional championship on Saturday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Fieldcrest football team finished its season with a 34-30 Heart of Central Illinois Small Conference loss at Heyworth.

Ottawa junior Zulee Moreland finished 1-2 and closed out her season at Thursday’s IHSA Class 1A State Finals. Plus, more results from around The Times area.