La Salle-Peru's Anna Ricci was voted NewsTribune Athlete of the Week after helping the Cavalier girls bowling team to Interstate 8 Conference and Dixon Regional titles.

The Marshall-Putnam Junior 4-H Meat Judging team was back at it again on Feb. 8 in Seward for a competition at Eickman’s Meat Processing Company.

The Princeton wrestling team advanced five wrestlers to the Class 1A state tournament out of the Oregon Sectional on Saturday.

A look at the postseason seeds and regional pairings for all the boys basketball teams in the NewsTribune area.

The No. 5-seeded St. Bede girls basketball team rolled to a 61-19 victory over Gardner-South Wilmington in a Class 1A St. Bede Regional quarterfinal on Saturday.

The L-P girls bowling team advanced to state, girls basketball regionals opened and more in Saturday's NewsTribune roundup.

L-P's Kiely Domyancich, Ottawa’s Juliana Thrush, Streator’s Lily Gwaltney and Seneca’s Catalina Pacheco and Sammie Greisen qualified for the IHSA girls wrestling state tournament out of the Geneseo Sectional on Saturday.

Bureau Valley finished with six 3-pointers on the way to a 54-42 win over Somonauk-Leland to advance to Tuesday’s semifinals of the Class 2A Princeton Regional at 6 p.m. against top-seeded Rock Island Alleman.

University of Illinois Extension hosted the inaugural Oglesby Agronomy Summit on Jan. 23 at Illinois Valley Community College.