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Local Sports Update

By Tony Bianchi Feb 26, 2021 | 7:25 AM

Varsity Boys Basketball Tonight

The Ottawa Pirates travel to face  Sandwich 

The Marquette Crusaders are on the road at Lowpoint Washburn

The Streator Bulldogs will face Herscher at the Pops Dale Gymnasium.

Seneca will host  Midland 

Serena is at  Hiawatha 

Earlville is home taking on Somonauk 

St Bede will defend their home court against  Newman Catholic

 

Over The Weekend

Marquette is at Roanoke-Benson, Seneca will travel to Putnam County,  St. Bede heads to Riverdale and Streator is on the road at Bloomington Central Catholic.

 

There was a game last night in Peru – LP defeated Putnam County 68- 54

Drake Weber scored 17 points for the Cavaliers

 

And last night Indian Creek hit the century mark beating Hiawatha 100-19.

In Girls Basketball

Marquette dominated on the road at  Midland 56-37

Josie Eager had 16 points and four steals, Izzy Garkey added 15 points and seven rebounds for The Lady Crusaders.

 

Streator won at home against Herscher 39-17

Natali Haynes finished with 15 points 12 rebounds and  8 blocks for the Lady Bulldogs.

Tonight

The Ottawa Lady Pirates will host Sandwich and The L-P Cavaliers will also be home to take on Morris.

 

And This weekend L-P is at Morris, Marquette will host Midland and Streator travels to Seneca.

 

The Ottawa boys bowling team beat Sycamore 3477 to 3430.

High roller for the Pirates was Zander Parise with game scores of 251, 241 and 225 Nelson Brandt added a 634 series score with a high game of 246.

 

Kofi Cockburn scored a game-high 24 points to lead Illinois to 86-70 win against Nebraska at the State Farm Center.  Adam Miller added 18 points for the 4th-ranked Illini, who improved to 17-and-6. 

Missing from the game was Illinois standout Ayo Dosunmu and is out indefinitely after suffering a facial injury.  The junior guard got hurt in Tuesday’s loss to Michigan State.  No timeline has been released for his return.

 

Tonight  ISU starts a two game series with Northern Iowa at the Redbird Arena

 

This weekend, Illinois is at Wisconsin,  Northern Illinois takes on Eastern Michigan and Notre Dame is on the road at Boston College.

 

College Football begins this weekend in Illinois  for the teams who postponed their Fall season due to  COVID-19.

The Illinois State Redbirds take on South Dakota

The SIU Salukis will face North Dakota State

The Leathernecks of Western Illinois will host Missouri State

And on Sunday the Eastern Illinois Panthers will battle Southeast Missouri State

 

Malcolm Subban stopped all 26 shots for his first shutout as a member of the Blackhawks in a 2-0 victory over the Blues Jackets in Columbus.  Chicago opens up a two-game home slate with the Detroit Red Wings tomorrow night.

 

The Bulls host the Phoenix Suns tonight.  Chicago beat the Timberwolves in overtime on Wednesday.  

 

NASCAR will invade Homestead on Sunday for the Dixie Vodka 400.