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Here is the 2023 Sauk Valley Media All-Area Baseball Team, along with the season's final stats leaderboard.

Here is the 2023 Sauk Valley Media All-Area Softball Team, along with the season's final stats leaderboard.

Harvest Day will be the first to tell you that she’s as competitive as they come. So it was no surprise that the Dixon grad come out strong and set the tone Thursday at the Sauk Valley Media All-Star Basketball Classic.

The Sauk Valley Media All-Star Basketball Classic is back, and it’ll be another bumper crop of talent on tap Thursday at Sauk Valley Community College. A total of 37 seniors – 19 girls and 18 boys – will suit up one last time in their high school uniforms.

It was another strong spring around the area on the softball diamonds in 2023, as four teams won regional titles and two teams advanced to the Sweet 16 or beyond. Here are a few of the more noteworthy achievements around the Sauk Valley this spring in softball.

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

Led by a trio of first-team selections, 21 local softball players were named to the Illinois Coaches Association All-State Team, released Tuesday.

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

The Newman 4x800 relay team moved up five spots from their finals seed to take sixth place Saturday at the IHSA Track & Field State Finals, while Morrison's Brady Anderson finished fifth in the 100 and two other locals earned eighth-place medals.

Forreston-Polo had a trio of athletes qualify for the finals in three events each. Michael Taylor moved on in the high jump, and also teamed with De’Angelo Fernandez, McKeon Crase and Noah Dewey to qualify in the 4x100 and 4x200 relays.

Nearly 40 area athletes qualified for the IHSA Class 1A Boys Track & Field State Meet in 17 out of the 18 events, but only a handful advanced to the finals out of Thursday’s preliminaries. Out of the plethora of state qualifiers, just 17 will compete on Saturday, in 11 events.

More than 40 Sauk Valley area track & field athletes punched their ticket to the IHSA State Finals in Charleston at the Class 1A Rockridge Sectional at Edgington High School on a windy Friday afternoon.

A four-run fourth inning propelled the Forreston baseball team to a 6-1 victory over Eastland in a Class 1A Forreston Regional semifinal on Thursday.

There were 13 area athletes who qualified for the finals at the IHSA Class 1A Girls State Track & Field Meet in Charleston during Thursday’s preliminaries, and they will compete Saturday in eight events.

Polo baseball took down Hiawatha and Oregon baseball edged Mendota in regional quarterfinal games, while Dixon softball dropped a tight home game to Stillman Valley on Monday.