Dixon’s doubles team of Lucas Healy and Owen Grot, and Sterling singles player Brecken Peterson both won three matches at the Class 1A Boys Tennis State Tournament before bowing out Friday.

The IHSA Boys Track & Field State Championships continued Friday at O’Brien Field with the Class 2A prelims, where Dixon, Sterling and Rock Falls athletes qualified for the finals in five of the nine events in which they competed.

From the start of Friday afternoon’s Class 1A Lena-Winslow Sectional semifinal, the Newman baseball team was hitting the ball hard. That really paid off over the final three innings, as the Comets pulled away for a 15-2 win over host Le-Win at Lions Park.

For a handful of Sauk Valley area boys track & field athletes, the dream of winning a state title continued Thursday in the IHSA Class 1A State Track & Field prelims at O’Brien Field in Charleston. Four individuals and two relay teams advanced to Saturday’s finals.

Dixon doubles team Lucas Healy & Owen Grot won their first-round doubles match at the IHSA Boys Tennis State Tournament on Thursday, but the other three local entries – doubles teams from Dixon and Sterling and a Golden Warriors' singles player – all dropped their openers.

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The first round of the IHSA Boys State Tennis Championships were held throughout Chicagoland on Thursday, May 26, 2022.

For four of the seven Dixon and Sterling boys tennis state tournament qualifiers this season, it will be the second time making the trip to the Chicago suburbs. For the other three qualifiers, it will be their first state experience.

Rock Falls native and current San Francisco Giants pitcher Jakob Junis has started four games in the month of May, allowing a total of 10 earned runs in 22 2/3 innings.

With a trip to the regional finals and tying the school record for wins in a season on the line Tuesday, the Dixon softball team was ready to roll from the start in a Class 3A Sterling Regional semifinal, grabbing an early lead and tacking on more late in a 9-3 win over Rochelle.