Prep Sports | Illinois Valley

Seneca softball's Hayden Pfeifer twirled a perfect game, Streator baseball 10-runned Illinois Valley Central, Fieldcrest's Drew Overocker drove in seven runs, plus more in The Times Wednesday Roundup.

The Mendota softball team topped Marquette 9-4 on Wednesday, receiving a two-homer, five-RBI performance from Addy Perryman and a complete-game pitching win courtesy of Lexie Saylor.

Here's a look at the Bureau County boys class of 2026 scoring leaders, plus the leaders from other classes

Here's a look at Bureau County boys finals statistical leaders for the 2025-26 season including Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede based on available stats

The statewide portion of youth wrestling season culminated earlier this month with various state tournaments including dozens of participants from the extended Ottawa/Streator/Morris area.

The Hall and Mendota baseball teams scored in the seventh inning to pull out wins, plus more baseball and softball results in Tuesday's NewsTribune roundup.

Marquette baseball's Griffin Dobberstein homered twice, while Georgia Kirkpatrick scored a hat trick to lead the Ottawa girls soccer team to a season-opening win. That and more in The Times Tuesday Roundup.

The Plainfield South baseball team was more solid than host Streator in the fundamentals Tuesday, and over seven innings it added up to a 10-1 Cougars win over the Bulldogs.

Seneca senior Camryn Stecken hit a two-run homer in the third inning to help spark Fighting Irish softball in an 11-1, five-inning win over St. Bede in their Tri-County Conference opener.


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