Boys Tennis

Four Crystal Lake Central co-op girls golfers finished in the top 10 to lead the Tigers to a McHenry County Tournament win Thursday. Plus more boys soccer, girls volleyball, girls tennis and boys golf scores.

Westwood’s 18U team, made up of eight players from Sterling, Dixon, Newman, Geneseo and La Salle-Peru high schools, earned its highest finish at the tournament in its fifth time qualifying for the event.

A group of local tennis players finished off a strong summer with their best performance yet. Team Westwood placed seventh at the United States Tennis Association’s Junior Team Tennis Midwest Sectional last month in Indianapolis.

Boys tennis was a new team sport at Sycamore, but it wasn’t new to Steven Chen. The junior had been playing since middle school. Chen finished his first high school season 20-4, including picking up three wins at state, and is our 2023 Boys Tennis Player of the Year.

As we look back at the spring 2023 season before turning a page to next school year, here are five things that stood out the last few months in boys tennis and girls soccer.

Following a season that saw them win a doubles I-8 championship, a Class 1A sectional title and advance to the state meet, Ottawa's Adam and Noah Gross are The Times 2023 Tennis Players of the Year.

Meet the 2023 Northwest Herald All-Area boys tennis team.

Huntley freshman Will Geske is the 2023 Northwest Herald Boys Tennis Player of the Year. Geske won the FVC No. 1 singles title and went 2-2 in the Class 2A State Tournament.

Here we are again at the end of another successful high school sports year in the Sauk Valley – and 2022-23 was a doozy.

Several local league release their 2023 all-conference teams for spring sports.

Sterling junior Brecken Peterson lost his opening match Friday on the second day of the meet in the Chicago suburbs, falling 6-3, 6-0 to Chicago U-High's Dash Smith in the consolation fourth round.

For the second straight year, Sterling’s Brecken Peterson has advanced to Day 2 of the IHSA Class 1A Boys Tennis State Meet.

Thursday's prep roundup has local results from the boys state tennis tournament and postseason baseball.

The IHSA Boys State Tennis Meet began Thursday, May 25, 2023 at several high schools throughout the northwest suburbs.

Phillips (17-3) will face No. 8 seed Ezra Bernhard (41-3), a junior from Champaign Central, in a first-round match at Rolling Meadows High School on Thursday morning.