Streator Preps

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 Bulldogs shocked Herscher on Monday with a surprisingly lopsided loss to open the Illinois Central Eight Conference softball season. Early Tuesday evening, the Tigers returned the favor.

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.

Makensi Martin's goal with 15:27 left in the second half was the difference as Morris beat visiting Streator 1-0 on Monday.

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.

In a pitcher's duel between Ottawa sophomore Addie Russell and Streator senior Makenna Ondrey on Thursday, the Pirates were able to come away with a 2-0 win at King Field.

Ottawa defeated Streator 2-0 on Thursday, May 27, 2025 at Ottawa High School.

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.

Fourteen of the area's top girls and boys wrestlers make up the 2024-25 Times All-Area Wrestling Team.

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.

With the high school girls soccer season getting underway this week, here is a look at the 2025 season for the Ottawa Pirates, the Streator Bulldogs, and the Hinckley-Big Rock co-op Royals.

The Ottawa and Streator high school boys tennis teams both have experienced upperclassmen and potential underclass contributors for the 2025 season.

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.

There are 175 1,000-point scorers (140 boys, 35 girls) from Bureau County schools from the past to present. DePue heads the list with 21 (all boys) followed by Princeton (13/6) with 19 and Hall (12/6) with 18.

The 2025 high school baseball season starts this week. Here are five players to watch in The Times coverage area.

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

Hall baseball bounced back from a season-opening loss and handed Streator a season-starting loss of its own Tuesday ay Kirby Park, 8-1.

Hall defeated Streator 8-1 on Tuesday, March 18, 2025 in Foley Field at Kirby Park in Spring Valley.

In an area rich with softball talent, here are just five of the players The Times Sports staff will be keeping a close eye on in 2025.

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

Last year's largely inexperienced Streator baseball team won 13 games and lost 21. This spring's more-seasoned Bulldogs expect to do a lot more winning.

Having quality pieces across all facets of the game will be a good place to start for a Streator softball team looking to snap a streak of three consecutive losing seasons in 2025.

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

The Illinois Central Eight, Tri-County and Kishwaukee River conferences have released their All-Conference boys basketball teams for 2024-25 season.

A look at all-time boys & girls basketball scoring leaders for 53 area schools, including 14 closed schools, as researched by the BCR's Kevin Hieronymus. Three area boys moved to No. 1 this season: Noah LaPorte at Princeton, Darius Hetherington at Dixon, Paxton Giertz at Seneca.

The Interstate Eight, Illinois Central Eight, Tri-County, Little Ten, Kishwaukee River and Heart of Illinois conferences have released their All-Conference girls basketball teams for 2024-25 season.

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.

A late steal and layup from Erick Sotelo broke a scoring drought for both teams and ultimately proved to be the game-winner as L-P upset Streator for the championship of the 3A La Salle-Peru Regional.

L-P beat Streator 49-46 to win the Class 3A Regional title on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025 in Sellett Gymnasium at L-P High School. L-P will play in the Class 3A Sectional on Wednesday, March 5, at Washington High School.

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.

Ottawa and Streator high schools have played a whole lot of basketball games over the past 119 years. It’s safe to say none of those previous meetings ended quite like Wednesday’s 41-39 Streator victory in the 3A La Salle-Peru Regional semifinals.

Streator hangs on to beat Ottawa 41-39 during the Class 3A Regional semifinal game on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 in Sellett Gymnasium at L-P High School. The Bulldogs will play in the Regional finals on Friday at 6p.m.

Ottawa's Juliana Thrush, La Salle-Peru's Kiely Domyancich, Streator's Lily Gwaltney and Seneca's Cattalina Pacheco and Sammie Greisen will compete at the IHSA girls wrestling state tournament this weekend.

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.

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

The Streator boys basketball team carried a 10-point lead over state-ranked Morton into the fourth quarter and played a good final period ... just not good enough to hold off the hot-shooting Potters.

Morton beat Streator 54-50 on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025 in Pops Dale Gymnasium at Streator High School.