Amboy junior Elly Jones won three events, and the Erie-Prophetstown girls track team took second in the 10-team Rosenberry Classic on Wednesday at Westwood Fitness & Sports Center in Sterling.

The Sterling softball team scored 11 combined runs in the fifth and sixth innings to win big over Moline in Sterling on Tuesday, while the Newman boys 4x400 relay team finished first at the Rosenberry track & field invite at Westwood.

Coming off a humbling loss to La Salle-Peru on Monday, Sterling bounced back in a big way, defeating Rock Falls 11-5 on Tuesday in a nonconference game at Gartner Park.

Starting six sophomores and a freshman a day after their bats went quiet in a loss to Sandwich, the DeKalb Barbs bounced back in a big way on Tuesday against Dixon.

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Twin city rivals Sterling and Rock Falls face off on the ball diamond Tuesday, March 28, 2023.

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The Dixon baseball team traveled to DeKalb Tuesday afternoon for a nonconference matchup.

The Newman baseball team scored in every inning except the first in an 11-1, five-inning win over Kewanee to open Three Rivers East play Monday in Kewanee.

Brendan Bodreau's two-out, three-run double highlighted a five-run second inning for LaSalle-Peru, and with all of the momentum on their side from a five-run second inning, the Cavaliers rolled to a 16-1 nonconference win over Sterling on Monday evening at Gartner Park.

Rock Falls erased an early three-run deficit on one swing of Kuitim Heald’s bat, then tacked on a few more runs later on without the aid of a hit in an 8-3 win Monday afternoon over visiting Erie-Prophetstown.