Hiawatha earned a big road volleyball win over Freeport. Plus more scores in Wednesday's Daily Chronicle sports Roundup.

Here are the Associated Press IHSA Week 7 football polls released Wednesday for all eight classes.

Kaneland and Rochelle prepare to honor Dylan Manning before their meeting Friday, and Sycamore faces La Salle-Peru in a must-win game for the Spartans. Plus we look at DeKalb, Hiawatha and Genoa-Kingston in our preview capsules.

12 new or returning teams joined the projection this week but week over week the projection was fairly stable. Steve Soucie's latest playoff projection can be found here.

The DeKalb flag football fell in the semifinals of the McHenry Regional, G-K volleyball picked up a win over Oregon, H-BR knocked off Indian Creek in the L10 semifinals and more in the roundup.

The La Salle-Peru volleyball team is undefeated through the first round of Interstate 8 Conference play after a 25-14, 25-12 win over Kaneland on Tuesday.

Sycamore retained possession of El Classicorn traveling trophy Tuesday after coming from behind during the last 13 minutes of the second half to beat archrival DeKalb 5-3.

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The Sycamore and DeKalb boys soccer teams took to the pitch at Sycamore High School Tuesday to decide the winner in the annual El Classicorn rivalry game.

With just three weeks left in the regular season, we take a look at the path each DeKalb County team has on the way to a potential playoff berth.