Here's our 2025 All-BCR Football Team, representing players from Bureau Valley, Hall, LaMoille, Princeton and St. Bede.

Princeton Logan captured the Class 3A Morris Saratoga Sectional seventh-grade championship on Wednesday, defeating Lisle 24-12. The Lions (17-3) advance to the IESA Class 3A State quarterfinals to face Hillsboro (23-1) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Auburn High School.

The Bureau Valley Storm captured the Class 2A Fieldcrest Sectional on Wednesday, defeating Seneca 35-22. The Storm (21-1) advance to the IESA Class 2A State quarterfinals to face Riverdale Washington (19-1) at 1 p.m. Saturday at Riverton High School.

Princeton welcomes 37 teams, including Hall-Putnam County, Lasalle Peru, Erie-Prophetstown, Mendota, Ottawa, Rock Falls, Streator and Sterling Newman, for the 2025 Princeton Invitational girls wrestling tournament on Saturday. Wrestling begins at 9 a.m.

The 51st annual Colmone Classic will tip off Saturday at Hall High School with a new team in the 12-team field as Galva replaces LaSalle-Peru. Also included in the hoopla are Bureau Valley, Fieldcrest, Hall, Mendota, Princeton, PC, Rock Falls and St. Bede

After winning its first BCR Three Rivers All-Sports Championship in 2023-24, Riverdale is back on top of this year’s race through the fall season. The Rams have been boosted by first-place finishes in boys golf and girls volleyball, which placed third in Class 2A.

Here’s a look at the final area 2025 volleyball standings

The good times never seemed so good for Caroline Keutzer. The senior outside hitter led Princeton to its first regional title in four years. She was unanimously named first-team all-conference and to the IVCA All-State Honorable Mention.

Here's an update of boys tournaments for Bureau County teams Bureau Valley, Hall, LaMoille, Princeton and St. Bede on Nov. 28

Here's the leading ladies of the 2025 volleyball season representing players from Bureau Valley, Hall, LaMoille, Ohio, Princeton and St. Bede

The Bureau Valley Storm held Roanoke-Benson scoreless after the first quarter for a 33-6 win to capture the 2A Spring Valley 7th grade regional championship on Tuesday. The Storm (22-1) will play Seneca (17-1) for the Fieldcrest Sectional championship at 6 p.m. on Dec. 3

Princeton Logan defeated Mendota Northbrook 36-18 to capture the IESA Class 3A Princeton Regional championship Tuesday at Pannebaker Gym on Tuesday.

Here's a preview of the DePue and LaMoille boys basketball teams for the 2025-26 season

Princeton overcame not one, but two game-tying 3-pointers by IVC's Alayah Nelton, the first at the end of regulation, and the second at the end of the first overtime, to defeat the Grey Ghosts 53-52 on a last-second 3-pointer by junior Kiyrra Morris in double overtime

Here's an update of Thanksgiving girls basketball tournaments at Bureau Valley, Princeton and Pontiac/Prairie Central on Wednesday, Nov. 19

If there’s anybody that knows the Lena-Winslow and Stockton football rivalry, it’s Jesse Snyder, formerly at Princeton. He played in it for Le-Win and has coached in it from both sides of the field, first as a head coach at Stockton and now as an assistant for Le-Win.

Princeton gained revenge on Midland with a 69-34 win to advance to Saturday's finals. Hall defeated Mendota 48-22 and will finish out pool play Friday against IVC, looking to follow Princeton into Saturday’s finals.

Ruby Acker and Payton Frueh co-authored a season of success for the Princeton cross country team this fall. Together they led the Tigresses to a third-place finish at regional to earn a team trip to sectional. Frueh went on to qualify for state and they shared team MVP honors.

Bureau Valley beat E-P 47-39 and will now face Riverdale for the championship at 7 p.m. Friday. Brynley Doty finished with a team-high 12 points with Libby Endress and Brooke Helms adding 11 each.

The Bureau County boys basketball season will start up next week at a tournament site near you.

The Storm opened the Bureau Valley Thanksgiving girls basketball tournament with a 60-27 win over Rock Falls at the Storm Cellar Tuesday. Emily Wright had 16 points for the Storm and Libby Endress added 12.

Here are the BCR Male Cross Country Runners of the Year over the years

Sometimes the more things change the more they stay the same. That’s not the story for Bureau Valley senior Maddox Moore. Moore changed his approached to running, learning how to raise his level of competitiveness in cross country to a higher level.

Senior Camryn Driscoll reached 1,000 career points and Tiffany Gonigam became the all-time winningest coach at Princeton as the Tigresses opened the season with a 57-14 win over Henry-Senachwine.

While they may be inexperienced, coach Jason Smith and players say you shouldn't overlook this year's edition of the Princeton Tiger basketball team

Bureau Valley’s first adventure in the Lincoln Trail Conference was a big success last year. The Storm ran the table 11-0 to claim the LTC crown on the way to a 21-12 campaign. They are hopeful to maintain that level of success.

Here's the 2025 BCR Boys Soccer Honor Roll with players from Princeton, St. Bede and DePue-Hall

Landon Davis put together a record-setting season and career for the Princeton boys soccer team. He had 290 saves this season, breaking the previous PHS record of 247, and ranks 15th all-time in the IHSA record books with 719 career saves.

The 2025-26 girls basketball season will tip off with the Princeton Holiday Tournament on Monday, Nov. 17 and the Bureau Valley Thanksgiving Tournament on Tuesday, Nov. 18

Princeton senior captains Casey Etheridge and Rhett Pearson have received Illinois High School Football Coaches Association All-State recognition.

The Princeton girls have played for a regional championship in each of the past three seasons. They bring back the firepower to play for a regional title a fourth time, and this year they’d like to win it along with repeating as Three Rivers East champions.

Jon Henegar returns for his second season as head Bureau Valley girls basketball coach, bringing back six seniors, a junior and two contributing sophomores from last year's 13-20 team.

Area volleyball players have received all-conference honors in four conferences - Three Rivers East, Tri-County, Lincoln Trail and NUIC

Here's a look at the top boys swingers for the 2025 golf season from Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede

Here's a Bureau County area IF8A and IHSA football playoffs update

Wyatt Novotny didn’t want to be the next Tiger Woods. He wanted to be just like his brother, Colton. He is the one Wyatt always looked up to and learned to play golf from. Like his brother, Wyatt has been named as BCR Golfer of the Year for 2025

For more than five decades, Mike Brown, best known as "Brownie," has been a fixture on the sidelines of area sporting events in the radio booth and press boxes for WLPO Radio. St. Bede’s last football game this season was also the last of Brownie’s long run.

Bureau Valley avenged an earlier loss to Princeton Logan by defeating the Lions 35-17 to capture the seventh-grade championship of the Starved Rock Conference girls basketball tournament Thursday in Peru

Payton Frueh has run herself into the Princeton school record books as just the 10th individual girl to qualify in 46 years of the IHSA State Cross Country Meet. She has moved into Princeton’s top 12 all-time for 3.0 mile times.

Andy Puck’s career as the head volleyball coach at Princeton High School was a good read from cover to cover. He won a regional championship in his very first season in 2002 and he won another one this season, which proved to be his last.

Princeton lead 18-14 over Peoria Notre Dame in Game 3. The Irish rallied to tie the game at 18 and scored the final three points of the game to take the match with a come from behind 16-25, 25-16, 25-22 to advance to Thursday’s sectional finals

The Princeton volleyball team has six seniors this season all with one common goal: win a regional. They share with the BCR what achieving that goal winning their first regional championship together and Princeton’s first in four years means to them:

Here are sectional girls volleyball previews for teams around Bureau County.

Princeton coach Ryan Pearson wanted to make sure seniors Casey Etheridge, Gavin Lanham and Ryan Jager all got in the end zone in Saturday's playoff game. BCC star Valshun Powe said it was a "team win." Amboy prepares to hit the road, doesn't care about seeds.

Here's a look at the Princeton-Bloomington Central Catholic first-round playoff boxscores along with a recap of area of playoff scores/pairings

Valshon Powe scored six touchdowns and rushing for 243 yards to lead Bloomington Central Catholic to a 41-20 victory over Princeton in a Class 3A playoffs opener.

Here's a preview of the Class 1A Sherrard Sectional for Amboy, BV, Princeton and St. Bede cross country

In 43 years covering high school football, the past 40 as sports editor at the BCR, Kevin Hieronymus has learned there’s a lot to watch for and hear from the sidelines.

Here are regional previews for Amboy-Ohio, Bureau Valley, DePue, Hall, LaMoille, L-P, Mendota, Princeton, Putnam County, St. Bede on Oct. 31

Princeton senior Keely Lawson told coach Andy Puck the Tigresses were going to win the regional this season. That promise rang true Thursday when the Tigresses defeated Three Rivers rival Newman to capture Class 2A Princeton Regional championship on their home court