Flanagan-Cornell Preps

The Marquette and Seneca softball teams stayed unbeaten in Tri-County Conference play with wins on Thursday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

St. Bede shut out Woodland/Flanagan-Cornell 10-0 on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at St. Bede Academy.

Somonauk/Leland softball won a wild one (59 total runs were scored), plus victories for Serena softball, Streator baseball and girls soccer and more in The Times Wednesday Roundup.

The Marquette baseball and softball teams earned Tri-County Conference wins over Dwight on Tuesday, while the Serena and Newark softball teams recorded Little Ten Conference triumphs. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

St. Bede softball traded runs with host Woodland/Flanagan-Cornell in the early innings, then slowly pulled away late Tuesday for a Tri-County Conference triumph.

St. Bede defeated Woodland/Flanagan-Cornell 11-5 on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at Woodland High School.

New WFC softball head coach Sydnee Plesko taking over the program continues the tradition of Woodland bringing its former athletes home to coach.

Serena and Seneca softball both scored Monday victories, plus more in The Times Monday Roundup.

Ottawa's Weston Averkamp and the Newark and Streator softball teams were among the winners this weekend in The Times Saturday Roundup.

Ottawa and Sandwich baseball as well as Sandwich softball all picked up victories, plus more in The Times Friday Roundup.

Marquette's Griffin Dobberstein homered and drove in six runs in a Tri-County Conference win over Woodland/Flanagan-Cornell on Thursday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Here are preview capsules of boys track and field teams from around the Times coverage area.

Here are preview capsules of girls track and field teams from around the Times coverage area.

The Marquette baseball team topped Woodland/Flanagan-Cornell in Tri-County Conference play on Tuesday, while Serena, Somonauk and Newark all triumphed in Little Ten Conference action. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Streator softball team — behind the pitching of Makenna Ondrey — captured its Illinois Central Eight Conference opener on Monday, while the Newark and Somonauk baseball teams started the Little Ten Conference slate with wins. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Streator and Marquette baseball teams earned doubleheader sweeps, while the Bulldogs softball squad split a twinbill with Newark on Saturday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Honoring 25 of the area's best high school boys basketball players as selected by The Times Sports staff, here is the 2024-25 Times All-Area Boys Basketball Team.

The Ottawa softball and baseball teams earned wins over Newark on Friday, while Seneca's Lila Coleman won three medals at the Top Times Indoor Track and Field meet in Bloomington. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Honoring 25 of the area's best high school girls basketball players as selected by The Times Sports staff, here is the 2024-25 Times All-Area Girls Basketball Team.

The Ottawa baseball team topped Pontiac to improve to 5-1, while Marquette dropped a heartbreaker to Marmion Academy to fall to 5-1 on Thursday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Seneca softball team improved to 3-0, while Newark rolled to its first win of the season on Wednesday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Serena softball team slipped past Ottawa 1-0, while Seneca opened league play with a big victory on Tuesday. Plus more results from around the Times area.

The Ottawa baseball team and Marquette softball team won and more baseball, softball, tennis and track results in Monday's The Times roundup.

The Marquette baseball and softball teams each won a pair of games on Saturday at the Play the Turf Jamboree in Jacksonville. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Woodland baseball used a walk-off hit from Brezdyn Simons to top Gardner-South Wilmington on Friday, while Addie Scherer pitched and hit Earlville past South Beloit. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Ottawa senior Weston Averkamp won two events on a rainy Wednesday for Ottawa's boys track and field team, plus more in The Times Wednesday Roundup.

Marquette softball, Ottawa baseball both move to 2-0, WFC softball scores first win of new season, and more in The Times Tuesday Roundup.

The Marquette baseball and softball teams opening the season with wins over Lexington on Monday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Low numbers are a concern, but some talented ballplayers have hopes up that the WFC baseball co-op can add more than a few wins to its total from a year ago.

Streator's boys placed first and the girls second in a season-opening indoor track and field meet at Reed-Custer.

Even without a long-celebrated, presumptive ace, new Woodland/Flanagan-Cornell softball head coach Sydnee Plesko is optimistic her Warriors can again be a competitive, winning team.

At the Morris Indoor Invitational held at Lewis University, Seneca’s girls placed second of four teams on Thursday.

Here are five of our very early guesses as to Ottawa/Streator-area players to watch for when the 2025 season arrives.

The opening day of the IHSA Girls Wrestling State Finals was contested Friday morning, with Ottawa's Juliana Thrush, La Salle-Peru's Kiely Domyancich, and Seneca's Catalina Pacheco and Sammie Greisen advancing to the final day.

The 2025 spring season opened in the area Thursday with the Ottawa girls track and field team competing in an indoor meet in Sycamore.

The Woodland and Somonauk boys basketball teams fell in Class 1A regional semifinals on Wednesday, while Fieldcrest advanced to a 2A title shot in the Times area roundup.

Cissna Park had an obvious size advantage Tuesday in its 1A sectional semifinal and used it to defeat Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland 42-30.

Cissna Park/Christ Lutheran beat Flanagan-Cornell Woodland 42-30 during the Class 1A Sectional semifinal game on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 at Midland High School.

After losing to rival Flanagan-Cornell back in November on a near-half-court buzzer-beater, Woodland's boys basketball team made certain it didn't happen again in Monday's 24-point regional-opening victory over the Falcons.

The Serena, Newark and Somonauk boys basketball teams all claimed postseason victories in Class 1A regional openers on Monday, while Leland saw its season come to a close in the Times area roundup.

Sandwich's Cooper Corder and Seneca's Jeremy Gagnon dropped semifinal matchups at the IHSA State Wrestling meet, while Streator's rally came up short in a regular season capper in boys basketball. That and more in Friday's Times roundup.

Sandwich’s Cooper Corder and Seneca’s Jeremy Gagnon both started 2-0 to earn berths into their respective weight classes' championship semifinals at the IHSA Boys Individual State Finals held in Champaign on Thursday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland girls basketball team started hot and hung on late to win the championship game of the Class 1A Heyworth Regional on Thursday night with a 47-43 win over the host Hornets.

Newark's Dylan Long scored 40 points, including his 1,000th career point and Somonauk was a winner over Marquette in Wednesday's roundup.

Seneca and Serena both won girls regional semifinals, while Ottawa and Streator's boys both suffered road losses, plus more in The Times Tuesday Roundup.

The Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland girls basketball team used a huge fourth quarter to pull off an upset in the Class 1A Heyworth Regional semifinals on Monday to advance to Thursday's championship game. Plus more results from around the Times area.

More from the sidelines on Streator, Ottawa, Marquette, Seneca, Woodland and more in this week's edition of The Times Boys Basketball Notebook.

From Class 1A to 3A, from regional play-ins to state championship games, here are boys basketball postseason schedules for teams across the greater Ottawa/Streator/Seneca area.

Marquette sophomore Alex Schaefer punched his ticket to next weekend’s state Class 1A wrestling finals at the State Farm Center in Champaign after a runner-up finish at 215 pounds on Saturday at the Oregon Sectional. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Streator boys basketball team wrapped up the outright Illinois Central Eight Conference regular-season championship with a victory over Lisle on Friday at Pops Dale Gym. Plus, more results from around the Times area.