News Tribune

The Hall and Mendota baseball teams scored in the seventh inning to pull out wins, plus more baseball and softball results in Tuesday's NewsTribune roundup.

Seneca senior Camryn Stecken hit a two-run homer in the third inning to help spark Fighting Irish softball in an 11-1, five-inning win over St. Bede in their Tri-County Conference opener.

Taylor Vescagni was punching them out and Anna Riva was hitting them out for the La Salle-Peru softball team at Princeton’s Little Siberia Field on Tuesday. Vescagni pitched six no-hit innings with 12 strikeouts. Riva blasted two home runs.
A look at the La Salle-Peru, DePue-Hall, Mendota, Princeton and the new St. Bede JV girls soccer teams.

Grant Foes has always had ambitions to become a head football coach one day. That dream has been put on fast forward. Foes, 23, a 2021 Princeton High School graduate and former Tiger standout, has been named as the new head coach at Kokomo High School in Indiana.

Each bus, a 2025 Blue Bird Vision Gasoline 71-passenger bus, costs $114,900.

Blackouts are not a problem in Peru, but city officials still think they can reduce outages and improve overall efficiency. They’re getting state help to do it.

La Salle-Peru senior Kamryn Oscepinski is the NewsTribune Girls Bowler of the Year for the second year in a row after she won conference and regional titles and finished 40th at state.

Here’s a look at the top girls bowlers in the NewsTribune area for the 2025-26 season.


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