Eddie Carifio

Crewe Bartelt won three individual races and a relay, including an insanely close 200-meter dash at the Interstate 8 Conference Championships on Friday, plus more in the roundup.

The Sycamore girls won the Class 2A Genoa-Kingston Sectional on Friday, claiming a conference and sectional crown in the same season for the 1st time in school history. Sandwich's Sunny Weber dominated the distance races, Peyton Heywood pulled of an upset in the high jump.

The Class 1A and 2A Daily Chronicle area baseball teams each start with play-in games. Sycamore, DeKalb and Kaneland don't have that obstacle, but have tough roads ahead of them in their IHSA regionals. We look at where each team ended up.

Indian Creek baseball topped Hiawatha 27-15 for its first win in a game that featured 22 errors, 24 walks, 15 hits and took 3.5 hours to play; DeKalb baseball finished its sweep of Metea Valley while Sycamore avoided one at the hands of Morris; and more in the roundup.

Bella Jacobs was a walk away from a perfect game, and Jill Carpenter picked up her 400th win on the same NIU field where she played collegiately as Sycamore softball picked up a rivalry win against DeKalb on Thursday.

"It’s been an interesting ride for sure." Nic Gaston started in transportation at Indian Creek. Now he's also a coach, head of facilities, a volunteer multiple times over.

Indian Creek's Ally Keilman qualified for state in both hurdle events, Alexandra Schwantes and the 4x200 qualified for DeKalb, Kaneland picked up a huge Interstate 8 baseball win, Sycamore tennis improved to 16-2 and more in the roundup.

Sycamore put up six runs in the second inning, including a three-run home run for Jackson Macdonald. But RJ Kennedy, Cade Laudeman and Morris never stopped fighting back in an 8-6 win on Wednesday.

Cole Latimer homered in a win for DeKalb, Aaron Jindrich homered to help Hiawatha win and more in our prep roundup.

Kanon Baxley came through in the clutch again. The Kaneland baseball team beat La Salle-Peru 9-2 Tuesday behind Baxley's hot bat and Jack Frey's dominant pitching. The Knights stay in first place in the I-8 with two games left.

Kaneland baseball won and Sycamore baseball lost, moving the Knights into first place in the Interstate 8, plus more results in Monday's Daily Chronicle roundup.

The DeKalb boys track team put in a strong showing at its home meet as the postseason starts gearing up, Maddie Swanson and Jessie Fredrickson had a record-setting Saturday for Genoa-Kingston and other top performances in the Weekend Rewind.

Jessie Fredrickson won two solo events, helped the 4x100 relay take first, and the 4x200 set a school record as Genoa-Kingston won its home meet Saturday, Sycamore softball split a doubeheader with Yorkville, G-K softball beat Rochelle and more.

Alyanna Johnson's two-run, two-out single in the fourth proved pivotal in DeKalb's 3-2 win over Kaneland on Saturday. The Knights scored a run in the seventh and had two on and no outs, but Jasmine Rodriguez escaped the jam to finish the complete game.

DeKalb won its home meet on Friday, led by the record-setting 4x100 relay team, Sycamore and Kaneland softball slugged their ways to nonconference wins and more in the roundup.