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.

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L-P defeated Ottawa 5-1 on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025 at Ottawa High School. Check out photos of the match by MaKade Rios.

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

After two weeks and nine matches on the road, the La Salle-Peru volleyball team returned to AJ Sellett Gymnasium with a sweep of Streator on Wednesday.

Here are the latest Associated Press IHSA football polls released Wednesday for all eight classes.

Are their warning signs as to whether or not the field will need 4-win teams to complete the field of 256? The data seems to think so. Steve Soucie breaks down how the playoff field projects after the third week of games.

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 Ottawa girls tennis team swept all three doubles matches in Tuesday's 4-1 Interstate 8 Conference dual victory over La Salle-Peru at the Henderson-Guenther Tennis Facility at Ottawa High School.

The Streator girls tennis team won both singles matches and took one of three doubles Tuesday to edge visiting Princeton 3-2.