Congratulations to The Times Athlete of the Week, LPO boys swimming's Owen Phillips!
Here are Steve Buyansky's photos from the Class 1A Plano Regional wrestling tournament.
The Dixon girls bowling team finished second at the Dixon Regional with a total pinfall of 5,141 on Saturday at Plum Hollow, advancing the entire team to the Decatur Sectional. Sterling will send a pair of individuals, while Oregon's Ava Wight won the Freeport Regional title.
On Saturday at the 1A Riverdale Regional, 14 locals kept their seasons going by earning berths at next weekend’s sectional tournament. Many more saw their seasons end, including nine who came up one match short of continuing.
The Princeton Tigers advanced four wrestlers out of Saturday's Class 1A Polo Regional at Eastland High School.
Of its 13 participants in their own Class 2A wrestling regional on Saturday at Musgrove Fieldhouse, 10 Sterling wrestlers made it to the medal round, and nine of them punched their ticket to next weekend’s Rochelle Sectional to give the Warriors third place as a team.
Individual champion Lani Breedlove led Oswego's girls bowling team to its first-ever regional title, Yorkville qualified 11 wrestlers for sectionals in winning a team regional title and Oswego boys basketball won in double overtime in Saturday's roundup.
DeKalb had nine qualifiers out of the 3A Geneva Regional Saturday and took third as a team. The NIU men and women each won, Sycamore claimed a bowling regional plus more in the roundup
Local teams squared off at the 1A Polo Wrestling Regional held at Eastland High School in Lanark on Saturday, Feb. 4.