The Newark volleyball team defeated Somonauk in a battle of unbeaten Little Ten Conference teams on Tuesday, while Serena stayed perfect in league play with a win over Leland. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Ottawa and Streator boys golf teams both claimed titles at their respective conference meets on Monday. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Somonauk's Aiden Wold finished 8th at the Fran Noyes Boys Golf Invite in Belvidere on Saturday, while the Seneca and Sandwich girls cross country teams ran well at the Dale Donner. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Fieldcrest, Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland and Sandwich all lost football games Friday night, plus more in The Times Friday Roundup

The Seneca volleyball team earned a straight set Tri-County Conference win over Dwight on Thursday, while Fieldcrest’s Carter Senko won Livingston County Boys Golf Invitational. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

Week 4 across The Times coverage area includes conference openers for Marquette and Ottawa, Coal City coming to Streator, road games against 2024 playoff teams for FCW and Seneca, plus more.

Seneca girls golf, Sandwich boys golf, Streator girls tennis and Seneca girls volleyball are among the winners featured in The Times Wednesday Roundup.

The Streator volleyball team swept Dwight in straight sets on Tuesday, while Serena, Somonauk and Leland earned Little Ten Conference victories. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Serena boys golf team finished second and the Somonauk squad third at Monday's Little Ten Conference meet at Indian Oaks Country Club in Shabbona, while the Seneca girls placed third at the Pontiac Invite. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

More from sidelines around The Times area after Week 3 of the IHSA football season.

Cross country, boys soccer and girls volleyball results from the weekend are all in The Times Saturday Roundup.

Streator, Newark, Somonauk and Serena girls volleyball all picked up conference victories, Sandwich boys golf prevailed, plus more in The Times Thursday Roundup.

Here are our Week 3 high school football previews for games across The Times area, including Ottawa, Streator, Sandwich, Marquette, Seneca, Dwight, Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland and Fieldcrest.

The Earlville volleyball team topped Putnam County in straight sets on Wednesday, while the Serena boys soccer team picked up a Little 10 victory in overtime. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Streator boys golf team picked up a victory on senior night, while Ottawa, Somonauk and Sandwich also carded victories on the links on Tuesday. Plus more results from around the Times area.

The Ottawa boys soccer team used a Leo Carrizo-England tie-breaking goal off a Christian Solis assist with 15 minutes remaining in earning the Interstate 8 Conference win over the Hubs on Monday. The Marquette, Woodland, Newark and Flanagan-Cornell also earn volleyball wins.

More from the Ottawa, Seneca, Marquette and Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland sidelines in The Times Week 2 Football Notebook.

The La Salle-Peru Co-Op girls swimming team and Newark girls volleyball squad both had successful showings in invitationals, plus more in The Times Saturday Roundup.

The Seneca football rolled to a Week 2 win on Friday, while Fieldcrest and Sandwich suffered losses. Plus, local cross country runners competed well at Twilight in the Woods.

On a Friday when Polo and FCW fought hard for supremacy of the line of scrimmage, special teams provided the early gut punch for the Marcos on their way to a 40-20, eight-man win.

The Ottawa boys golf team finished second at the Illinois Valley Central Invitational on Thursday, while the Serena, Newark, Somonauk and Earlville volleyball teams grabbed Little Ten Conference wins. Plus, more results from the Times area.

Week 2 in The Times coverage area includes the on-field debuts of Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland and Dwight, Marquette's home opener and Streator visiting Ottawa to continue the state's third-oldest rivalry.

At the Warrior Dome, host Woodland captured its second straight triumph and the 100th win of head coach Michelle Pitte's career, plus golf, soccer and more volleyball in The Times Wednesday Roundup.

The Streator volleyball team opened the Illinois Central Eight Conference slate with a win on Tuesday, while Woodland, Newark, Somonauk and Fieldcrest also earned victories. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The Serena boys soccer team finished 1-1-1 at its own tournament on Saturday, while the Streator volleyball team placed third at the Ottawa Invitational.

The Sandwich boys golf team topped both Somonauk and Serena in Friday's triangular at Edgebrook.

The Ottawa boys golf team shot an impressive 299 to capture the title of the 11-team La Sall-Peru Invite on Thursday, while Serena and Somonauk earned wins on the volleyball court.

Here's a game-by-game look at Week 1 across The Times area, with games including Streator, Ottawa, Marquette, Seneca, Fieldcrest, Dwight, Sandwich and Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland.

Sandwich cross country ace Sunny Weber, golf teams from Ottawa, Serena and Streator, plus multiple area girls volleyball teams were victorious in The Times Wednesday Roundup.

Serena and Ottawa boys soccer, Somonauk girls volleyball and Streator boys golf were among the winners featured in The Times Tuesday Roundup.

After surviving a back-and-forth first set, Flanagan-Cornell got red hot in the second set to sweep Woodland on Tuesday.

The Streator volleyball team defeated Woodland to open the season on Monday, while Seneca, Serena, Newark and Earlville also picked up victories. Plus, more results from around the Times area.

The 2025 high school girls volleyball season gets underway Monday, and here's our look at what to expect from teams across The Times coverage area.

The goal for the 2025 Flanagan-Cornell/Woodland Falcons? Earn a third consecutive playoff berth for the first time since the eight-man football co-op made the 11-man playoffs the first nine years of the co-op between the old and fierce rivals.

The Woodland boys golf team fell to Roanoke-Benson at Wolf Creek on Friday.

The Ottawa boys golf team opened the season with a conference win, Streator improved to 2-0, and more results in The Times Thursday Roundup.

The Seneca boys golf team, led by Cody Malak's 41, won a quadrangular on Wednesday to move to 3-0 on the season.

Streator, Woodland and Sandwich's boys golf teams as well as Ottawa's girls team were in action. Find out how they did in The Times Tuesday Roundup.

At The Creek in Morris, host Seneca powered past a full team from Plano and three Somonauk golfers.

The 2025-26 high school sports season opened on a couple area golf courses Thursday, with Seneca's girls and Somonauk's Alex Wold both victorious.

High school girls volleyball practices opened up across Illinois this week. Here are five storylines we’ll be watching in 2025 across The Times coverage area.

The Illinois high school football season kicks off later this month, and official practices begin Monday. Here are five storylines we here at The Times have our eyes on this coming fall.

With the release of the 2025 IHSA football schedules, here is a week-by-week look at the can't-miss games across The Times coverage area.

Recent Woodland graduate and Times All-Area Football first-teamer Aydan Radke has selected to continue his education and football career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A collection of 40 of the top prep baseball players this past spring from across The Times' 13-school coverage area.

The Times Sports staff is proud to present our picks for 40 of the top prep softball players across the area, the 2025 Times All-Area Softball Team.

The schools of The Times area sent plenty of athletes to the IHSA Girls Track and Field State Meet. Here are those state qualifiers, the 2025 Times Girls Track and Field All-Area Honor Roll.

Ottawa's Weston Averkamp qualified for Saturday's Class 3A finals in both the 110- and 300-meter hurdles during Friday's preliminaries at the IHSA Track and Field State Meet, while Sandwich's Petter Popp in the shot put and Jacob Ross in the pole vault will move on in 2A.

Somonauk, Fieldcrest and Seneca all had advancers at the Class 1A state track and field preliminaries, while Ottawa's state-qualifying boys tennis doubles team got a pair of wins in the suburbs. This and more in The Times Thursday Roundup.

Ottawa's Adam Swanson blasted a walk-off homer against Geneseo on Saturday, while Streator softball dropped a doubleheader and the Pirates state-bound tennis duo of Evan Krafft and Noah Gross placed 4th at the 1A sectional.