Saturday (At Freeport) (Baseball
Rochelle 12 (3-3)
Freeport 4 (1-5)
**Rochelle: Led 5-0 after 2 1/2 Innings
**3 runs in the 5th and 2 runs in the 6th and 7th Innings
**Mark Wanner: Winning Pitcher (2-0) (Threw 1st 5 Innings)
**3 hits and 3 RBI at the plate
**Dylan Hopkins: Threw final 2 Innings
**Freeport: Pitchers had 10 walks
**4 errors in the game
**Rochelle: 3 wins matches last season's total
**Rochelle: At Sterling on Wednesday
Forreston 5 1 Winnebago 1 9 (Split)
**Forreston: (2-3)
Byron 3 9 Rockridge 1 8
**Tigers: (6-0)
Dixon 17 16 Stillman Valley 9 5
Sycamore 4 9 Harlem 2 6
DeKalb 9 Rockford East 5
Herscher 10 Streator 0
Yorkville 1 Sandwich 0
Richmond-Burton 7 Vernon Hills 5
Rockford Boylan 4 9 Genoa-Kingston 3 5
Hononegah 4 Rock Island 0
Hononegah 14 East Troy (Wis) 4
Rockford Auburn 8 Christian Life 7
North Boone 12 2 Rockford Lutheran 11 3 (Split)
Girls Softball
Saturday (At Belvidere)
Genoa-Kingston 7
Rochelle 1
**Tracy Ellis: Losing pitcher (Threw 1st 5 innings) (6 hits, 5 strikeouts)
**Paige Myroth (Rochelle): Only hit for the Lady Hubs (Single)
**Scored on a pass ball
Rochelle 8 (1-4)
North Boone 3
**Tracy Ellis: Winning pitcher (1-3)
**5 hits, 12 strikeouts
**Rochelle: 6-run 5th Inning
**Lauren Murphy: 2-run single
**Tracy Ellis: RBI single
**Rochelle: 4 hits in the game
**Rochelle: At home Monday vs Harlem (Home Opener)
**Pre-Game Show at 4:20pm on Newstalk 1060 and wrhl.net
Oregon 8 15 Dixon 7 2
**Oregon: 13 hits in 1st game
**Alli Henson: 3 singles, RBI in Game #2
Stillman Valley 18 Orangeville 1 (5)
Forreston 13 21 Rockford Lutheran 2 0
Downers Grove South 6 4 DeKalb 4 0
Streator 16 4 Sycamore 5 16 (Split)
Geneva 3 Burlington Central 2
Harvard 3 Woodstock North 1
Plainfield Central 2 Yorkville 0
Sterling 12 Rockridge 2
Belvidere 15 North Boone 2
Genoa-Kingston 11 Belvidere 3
Winnebago 4 Eastland 2
Girls Soccer
Orion 2 Dixon 0
Rockford Boylan 3 Harlem 0
**Championship Game at Huntley Invitational
NIU Baseball
DeKALB, Ill. - Northern Illinois baseball (5-21-1, 2-6 MAC) started slow against Toledo (12-15, 4-3 MAC) in its first two games at the Ralph McKinzie Field, mounting two late rallies on the Rockets. A pinch-hit grand slam by Micah McCulloch of Rochelle in game one and a four run seventh in game two opened the door for the Huskies but NIU dropped the doubleheader, 10-4, 6-4.
"Toledo deserved these games and I hate to say that. We created a spread for Toledo in game one and their pitcher Ryan Wilkinson doesn't need a spread like that, he's a good first pitch for strike hurler and he does what you expect out of a Friday guy," said Head Coach Ed Mathey. "I thought we did a nice job in the ninth inning (of game one) to build some momentum for game two but we weren't able to sustain that. Micah did a nice job of staying back on a breaking ball to put the barrel on the pitch and hit it over the left field fence. We need to go back to work tomorrow, starting with batting practice, and make the adjustments that we saw out here on the field," added Mathey.
"Maybe we were too excited and too emotional for our first games at home and not focused the way we should be. We need to defend our home field tomorrow and set the tone for the rest of the week," Mathey concluded.
Tommy Hook finished 3-for-8 (.375) with a double while McCulloch finished 2-for-5 (.400) with a pinch-hit grand slam, a run and four RBI in the doubleheader.
Final game in the series is today in DeKalb.
