Girls cross country

Class 2A Lakes Sectional: At Lake Villa, Prairie Ridge’s Emmie Foster cruised to first place with a time of 16:40.12 to lead the Wolves to next Saturday’s state meet at Detweiler Park in Peoria. St. Francis’ Elena Mamminga (17:23.59) was runner-up.

Prairie Ridge took second as a team with 93 points behind champion St. Francis (65). Joining the Wolves at state as teams will be Crystal Lake South and Cary-Grove, which placed fifth and sixth, respectively. Crystal Lake Central was 14th.

Prairie Ridge’s Anneke Dam (17:39.91) finished fifth,, and Maia Lancaster (17:59.50) took 10th. C-G’s Alexandra Santoyo (18:09.01) placed 14th, Crystal Lake South’s Caroline Lucas (18:18.50) was 20th, C-G’s Olivia Parker (18:31.43) was 25th and South’s Laynie Ripley (18:35.45) was 30th.

Class 3A Hoffman Estates Sectional: At Busse Woods in Schaumburg, Jacobs’ Lennox Szymonik finished fourth with a time of 17:05.98, and the Golden Eagles team placed sixth to qualify for state. Prospect’s Meg Peterson won in 16:53.98.

Mackenzie Cronin (18:00.91) was 28th for Jacobs. McHenry took 14th.

Class 3A Lake Park Sectional: At Lake Park, Huntley’s Isabella Ciesla finished 10th in 17:28.9 to lead the Red Raiders to fifth place as a team and qualify for next weekend’s state meet. St. Ignatius’ Annika Swan won in 16:26.1.

Huntley’s Morgan Sauber (17:43.4) was 17th, and Haley Rahman (17:54.4) was 24th. Hampshire’s Reese Long (17:49.8) was 21st to qualify for state.

Class 1A Lisle Sr. Sectional: At Lisle, Johnsburg’s Clara Nicoline (19:43.08) placed eighth to advance to next weekend’s state meet. Westmont’s Kyla Babb (18:11.13) took first. Richmond-Burton took sixth as a team to qualify, led by Khloe Lundy (20:24.36) in 12th.

Boys cross country

Class 2A Lakes Sectional: At Lake Villa, Woodstock’s Elery Shutt placed sixth with a time of 14:57.82, and Cary-Grove’s Jameson Tenopir (15:00.91) took eighth to qualify for next weekend’s state meet. Kaneland’s Carson Kaiser won the sectional in 14:16.00.

Crystal Lake Central advanced to state as a team, led by Amana Omale (15:03.61) in 11th. The Tigers were fifth as a team. Woodstock took 10th, Crystal Lake South was 11th, Prairie Ridge was 12th and Cary-Grove was 14th.

Crystal Lake South’s Joseph Gonzalez (15:26.34) took 20th to move on to state, as did teammate Logan Aarseth (15:30.43) in 26th. Prairie Ridge’s Tyler Sjoblom (15:34.27) was 30th but just missed qualifying. Woodstock’s Josh Roth (15:35.23) was 31st.

Class 3A Hoffman Estates Sectional: At Busse Woods in Schaumburg, Dundee-Crown’s Logan Grey finished 20th in 15:04.35 to move on to next weekend’s state meet. McHenry’s Myles Wagner (15:10.37) was 23rd to also advance. The Warriors took 14th out of 18 teams.

Class 3A Lake Park Sectional: At Lake Park, Huntley’s Joseph Sittler (25th, 15:19.6) and Nathan Sauber (27th, 15:20.6) helped lead the Red Raiders to seventh place and next weekend’s state meet.

Class 1A Lisle Sr. Sectional: At Lisle, Johnsburg’s Grady Smith ran in 15:53.17 to take runner-up to Harvest Christian’s Luca Bryja (15:51.49), as the Skyhawks advanced to the state meet as a team. Micah Klos (16:52.61) was seventh for Johnsburg, which took fourth out of 19 teams. Cayden Moran (17:35.64) was 19th.

Also advancing to state as individuals were Richmond-Burton’s Gavin McInnis (10th, 17:05.63) and Marian Central’s Oliver Ebel (18th, 17:32.31).

Girls swimming

Fox Valley Conference Invite: At Woodstock North High School, Dundee-Crown co-op, which combines with Jacobs and Hampshire, won the six-team conference title in back-to-back years with 294 points, ahead of Huntley (222) and Crystal Lake South co-op (218). Woodstock North co-op (166) took fourth, Cary-Grove (150) took fifth and McHenry (113) was sixth.

Dundee-Crown co-op’s Elie Niemi and Crystal Lake South co-op’s Bella Fontana were named co-Most Valuable Swimmer, each winning two individual events. Woodstock North co-op’s Xandelle Longo earned Newcomer of the Year honors.

Dundee-Crown co-op took first in eight of 11 events, sweeping all three relays.

Rachel Johnson, Anastasia Komarova, Tessa Iverson and Julia Zagata took first in the 200-yard medley relay (1:53.09); Olivia Burczynski, Kaitlyn Tomaszewski, Komarova and Niemi won the 200 free relay (1:40.38); and Tomaszewski, Lindsey Marzalik, Iverson and Johnson won the 400 free (3:47.13).

Niemi won the 50 free (24.43) and 100 backstroke (58.99), Tomaszewski won the 200 IM (2:19.29), Johnson won the 100 butterfly (59.40) and Burczynski won the 100 free (55.13).

Crystal Lake South co-op’s Bella Fontana won the 200 free (1:58.73) and 500 free (5:24.03).

Huntley’s Olivia Rohde won the 100 breaststroke (1:06.20).

Football

South Beloit 37, Alden-Hebron 6: At South Beloit, the ninth-seeded Giants (7-3) ended their season with a loss to the eighth-seeded Sobos (8-2) in an Illinois 8-Man Football Association playoff opener. Jack Stewart had 58 yards rushing on four carries, including a 50-yard TD run for the Giants’ only points. He also threw for 28 yards and made one catch for 43 yards.

Louie Bageanis ran for 68 yards on 18 carries and added four catches for 67 yards. JP Stewart went 5-of-12 passing for 88 yards. Cohl Armbrust had 10 yards on the ground.

The Giants were led on defense by Jack Stewart, Bageanis and Ulysses Johnson, who had an interception.