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Rock Falls senior Aydan Goff reached 1,000 career points in a win over Stillman Valley, and the Oregon wrestling team won the Stillman Valley Holiday Tournament on Saturday. Plus more in our local sports roundup.

For a while, it looked like Saturday’s first-round Forreston Holiday Tournament game between Newman and Forreston would be a close one. In the third quarter, the Comets erased all doubt, cruising to a 58-38 win.

Meet the 2023 Sauk Valley Media All-Area girls volleyball team.

Amboy basketball and wrestling come up big. Dixon and Sterling win in basketball: Sauk Valley Media sports roundup for Friday, Dec, 15, 2023.

Sterling senior Brenden Stanley bowled the second perfect game in program history to lead a dual-meet win, while the Morrison girls basketball team took second at the Pearl City Tournament. That and more in Thursday's roundup.

Both the Princeton Tigresses and Newman Comets played an up-tempo brand of basketball in their TRAC East meeting Thursday night in Sterling, and it was Princeton eventually pulling out a 56-50 victory.

Princeton comes into Sterling to take on Newman Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023 in girls basketball. Princeton took the tightly contested game 56-50.

The Newman girls basketball team beat Orion and the Dixon wrestling team went 2-0 at the Stillman Valley triangular on Tuesday. That and more in our local sports roundup.

Jess Johns filled up the stat book Monday with 20 points, nine rebounds and nine steals in a Three Rivers Athletic Conference road win for Newman girls basketball at Mendota. That and more in Monday's roundup.

Morrison's Camryn Veltrop poured in 21 points and surpassed 1,000 career points Saturday as the Fillies earned a 52-44 win over Ashton-Franklin Center. Plus read more local results in Saturday's roundup.

With the season in the record books, it's time to meet the 2023 Sauk Valley Media All-Area Football Team.

Newman went 1-1 at Orion's triangular and Morrison went 2-0 at Sherrard's triangular in wrestling, while the Amboy and Milledgeville boys basketball teams both lost on Wednesday.

Polo rolled past Oregon in girls basketball, while Rock Falls routed Hall and Newman fell to Kewanee in boys basketball on Tuesday. Plus more in our local sports roundup.

For the third time in three years, the Dixon Dukes are Carson DeJarnatt Tournament champions. At the 45th annual wrestling tournament at Musgrove Fieldhouse on Saturday, Sterling, Dixon, Newman, Fulton and Rock Falls faced off in a nine-team field.

After Newman built the lead, it held on for dear life despite Bureau Valley’s best efforts down the stretch Thursday night. The Comets held off a fourth-quarter charge by the Storm for a 56-52 Three Rivers East win in Sterling.