Bureau County Republican Sports news
Here's a closer look at the Bureau County football games for Week 5 of the 2025 season for Princeton, Bureau Valley, Hall, St. Bede and Amboy.
A recap of Tuesday's Three Rivers meet, a look at Princeton's first-year golfers and the Tigers move back to Class 1A for the first time in 15 years
Here’s a look at the area leaders from Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede through Week 4 of the 2025 season
LaMoille and indian Creek met Tuesday at Dean Madsen Gymnasium with both looking for their first win in Little Ten Conference play. After winning the first set 25-20, the Timberwolves trailed 13-7 in the second, but outscored the Lions 19-5 to rally for a deciding 25-18 clincher.
Monday's roundup includes Bureau Valley volleyball, Princeton girls golf, girls tennis and boys soccer
With 475 yards rushing this year in three games played, Princeton's Casey Etheridge has now totaled 4,282 yards and needs just 106 yards to top former Tiger Ronde Worrels, who totaled 4,387.
Here's a look at boxscores for 2025 Week 4 games around Bureau County, including Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede games
Six different players found the end zone for the St. Bede Bruins who held a 48-0 halftime lead on the way to a 56-0 non-conference victory in a Saturday matinee at Lewistown. There's also cross country and boys and girls results in the Saturday roundup
After taking a week off with a forfeit win over Sherrard, the Princeton football team returned in action in a big way with a 63-12 runaway win over longtime rival Kewanee
Here are Week 4 area scores from out of the past around Bureau County
A look at the all-time Princeton vs. Kewanee football scores dating back to 1897
The Princeton volleyball team surged in the final moments of both sets Thursday to post a 25-17, 26-24 win over Ottawa at Kingman Gym.
This week's guest picker for Week 4 is Roger Lowe, retired Princeton teacher and coach of the 1992 Sweet 16 Tiger basketball team and former IHSA State basketball commentator
Here's a look at boxscores for 2025 Week 2 games around Bureau County, including Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede games
Princeton Logan defeated Spring Valley JFK 2-1 at Sunset Park in Peru on Saturday to capture the IESA Class 2A Regional championship. The Lions (14-3) advance to the sectional championship, which they will host Metamora (25-3) at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Here's a look at Week 3 scores in and around Bureau County
Tucker Shane scored the Storm’s lone touchdown in the third quarter as BV fell in their Lincoln Trail-Prairieland Conference opener in Knoxville.
Princeton will welcome 14 schools to run in Saturday’s Gary Coates Cross Country Invitational at Zearing Park on the south side of Princeton. Schools include Amboy, Dixon, Fieldcrest, Hall, LaSalle-Peru, Mendota, Morris and Newman.
Hall and Mendota first played more than a century ago with records showing a 27-7 Mendota victory in 1917. According to BCR records, the Red Devils hold a 43-39 series edge in 82 meetings, winners of the last three.
Here’s a look back at the week of sports through the lens of Mike Vaughn
Here are Week 3 area scores from out of the past around Bureau County
Jackson Mason shot a 35 for medalist honors to lead the Tigers (170) to a Three Rivers win over Erie (175) at Chapel Hill Golf Course Thursday. Cayden Benavidez (41) took second for the Tigers.
The Princeton Tigers will get an unexpected Friday night off after learning Thursday that Sherrard will forfeit Friday’s scheduled Three Rivers East opener at Sherrard due to an outbreak of illness.
Here’s a look at the area leaders from Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede through Week 2:
This week's guest picker for Week 3 is Brian Stocking, super stat man forWQAD's The Score
Elijah House forgot that the Underground Railroad 5K was coming up during the Homestead Festival. Then he got a phone call from his mom, Cherie, a few days before to see if he was still running. He not only ran it, he won it.
Here's a look at Week 3 football game previews for A-L-O, Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede.
Rhett Pearson never has to go far to find some football. Every morning, he wakes up and finds it right in his own living room. “Go downstairs, there’s football on TV. I mean, it’s football 24/7,” he said.
Keely Lawson and her classmates are letting it all hang loose for their volleyball season at Princeton. That’s how they played in Tuesday’s match at Mendota, defeating the Spikers 25-14, 25-16 for a Three Rivers East victory.
Bureau Valley topped former Three Rivers Conference rival St. Bede 19-25, 25-19, 25-19 at the Storm Cellar Monday night.
Cullen Schwigen called his own number with Rockridge knocking on the door late in a tie game at Princeton on Friday night. There was little doubt that he would. He sneaked in from 3 yards out for the winning score to lift Rockridge to a 36-29 win over the Tigers
Here's a look at area scores for Week 2 in 2025
Here’s a look at the area leaders from Bureau Valley, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede through Week 1:
The seniors from Princeton's 1989 state runner-up, “Tiger Style” football team, are back in town for their 35th class reunion. Here’s a repost of their 2023 Bureau County Sports Hall of Fame induction story.
Here’s a look at Week 2 scores over the years around Bureau County
Caroline Keutzer smacked 10 kills with Kathy Maciczak serving up 12 points and two aces as Princeton defeated Kewanee in Three Rivers East volleyball Thursday night at Prouty Gym.
This week's guest picker for Week 2 is Greg Armstrong of the View From the West Podcast
When Chance Blumhorst resigned from his post as head boys basketball coach at LaMoille High School this summer to become athletic director at his hometown Mendota, it was only natural that Patrick Harmon, his JV coach, would follow him again as head coach.
Here's a look at Week 2 preview capsules in Bureau County for Amboy, Bureau Valey, Hall, Princeton and St. Bede. Only the Bruins enter the week with a win.
Max Taylor, a 2022 PHS alum, and Drake Davis, brother of three former Tigers, have joined the Princeton Tiger coaching staff this season. Taylor previously coached for his uncle's Kewanee Boilers. Davis concluded a seven-year collegiate career at Div. 2 Quincy University.
A look at Bureau County area scores for Tuesday, Sept. 3
PHS volleyball has won 1,033 matches dating back to its inaugural season in 1973 under the direction of five coaches.
The La Salle-Peru, Hall-Putnam County and Mendota games were delayed by inclement weather on Friday. Jack Brady wins his first game as St. Bede coach. That and more in this week's football notebook
Princeton coach Andy Puck was happy to catch Newman early in the volleyball season. He knows they have a young team that will only improve by the next time they meet. The Tigresses caught the Comets this time, scoring a 25-19, 25-14 win Tuesday at Prouty Gym
Here's a look at boxscores for 2025 Week 1 games around Bureau County
Princeton’s duo of Reese Reviglio and Illyana Jones placed second in Saturday’s Princeton Invitational Ryder Cup. Princeton's volleyball team finished second in the Hall Early Bird tournament, falling to Sherrard n the finals, going 2-1 in pool play
Here's a look at Friday’s scores in and around Bureau County for Week 1
Bureau County rivals Bureau Valley and St. Bede met for the first time in three seasons Friday night at the Academy gridiron with the Bruins winning 47-6.
This week's guest picker for Week 1 is Dan Pearson of FCA