Ceyton Urbanski hit a single to score Adan Pantoja in the bottom of the seventh inning to give La Salle-Peru a 5-4 victory over Sycamore in an Interstate 8 Conference game Thursday.

Logan Conroy was 2 for 4 with a triple and two RBIs, while Caden Medler provided a spark off the bench for Morris in a 5-4 win over Ottawa.

The Marquette baseball team - behind a clutch two-inning save from Jaxsen Higgins after a solid start from Alec Novotney, and homers from Braxton Nelle and Griffin Dobberstein - topped host Roanoke-Benson/Lowpoint-Washburn in Monday's Tri-County Conference game.

Morris baseball's Carter Snyder finished one three-run inning and started another Monday as Morris defeated host Ottawa 6-3 to open their Interstate 8 Conference series at King Field.

After struggling against Morris for the past four years, La Salle-Peru won Friday to take two of three from Morris in an Interstate 8 Conference series.

The St. Bede baseball team, led by Gus Burr's three hits and four RBIs and Carson Riva's three hits and five RBIs, rolled to a 18-3 Tri-County Conference victory in four innings over host Woodland/Flanagan-Cornell on Thursday afternoon.

A four-run bottom of the first inning and five scoreless innings from pitcher Cam Shriey was all the good start Seneca's baseball team needed Saturday morning in a 7-2 win over visiting Serena.

Sandwich senior catcher Jeffrey Ashley had never hit a high school homer until this week. On Wednesday he homered for the second straight game against Plano, a three-run shot, and Sandwich built a nine-run lead and held on to beat the Reapers 12-10 in a game with four homers.

Coal City's Lance Cuddy outdueled Streator's Clay Christoff on Monday, twirling a complete-game shutout as the Coalers won their ICE series opener against the host Bulldogs 8-0.