Saturday (At RTHS) (Boys Basketball_
Ottawa Marquette 84 (9-6)
Rochelle 68 (1-12)
**Rochelle: 11th straight loss at home (Dating back to last season)
**Ottawa Marquette: 46-32 advantage in the 2nd half
**Included a 17-0 run
**Led 38-36 at Half Time
**Ottawa Marquette: 5 players in double figures
**Michael Sypniewski: 22 pts
**John Lechtenberg: 15 pts
**Aaron Mehrings (RTHS): 17 pts (4 3-pointers)
**Caleb Gould (RTHS): 11 pts
**Rochelle: At Yorkville on Tuesday
**Pre-Game Show at 6:45pm on Newstalk 1060 and wrhl.net
Sophomore Game
Rochelle 64
Ottawa Marquette 49
Girls Basketball
Saturday (At Stillman Valley)
Stillman Valley 49 (13-5)
Rochelle 25 (1-15)
**Stillman Valley: Led 35-8 at Half Time
**Abby Timm and Shannell Boettcher (SV): 12 pts
**Abby Kerns (RTHS): 10 pts (5 baskets)
**Rochelle: At Home Tuesday vs Geneseo (Make-up game from last Tuesday)
Sophomore: Stillman Valley won 31-21
Wrestling
Saturday (At RTHS)
Rochelle 66 Rochelle 60 Burlington Central 39
Mendota 12 Rockford Jefferson 24 Rochelle 30
**8 Forfeits **5 Forfeits
**Rochelle: (3-10)
**Rochelle: Triple Winners: Justin Hernandez, Jacob Meyers, Alex Harvey, Eli Keating,
Will Lawhorn
College Basketball
DEKALB, Ill. -- In a contest that featured 13 ties and 14 lead changes, a pair of late free throws led Kent State to a 67-65 victory over Northern Illinois University on Saturday night at the NIU Convocation Center. Senior center Jordan Threloff scored a season-high 21 points and added nine rebounds but the Huskies saw their school-record tying 11-game home win streak come to a close.
Senior guard Anthony Johnson added 14 points as the Huskies played without leading scorer Darrell Bowie (Milwaukee, Wis./La Jolla Prep) for the second consecutive game.
“Whenever we play Kent State it is a battle,” said NIU head coach Mark Montgomery. “It was a battle here last year, it was a battle at their place last year, we split (a year ago). They are a very good team. If you weren’t rooting for either team you saw a very good game.
“Unfortunately, we didn’t find enough things down the stretch to win the game. We have to be able to defend without fouling and I thought we fouled just a little bit too much. Give both teams credit, both teams played hard for 40 minutes, played with great energy and great effort, we just fouled too much and it cost us.”
Tied, 29-29, at the intermission neither team led by more than five points in the second half of a game that came down to the wire.
Kent State took a five-point lead, 38-33, less than two minutes into the second stanza, but Johnson made a pair of free throws and junior guard Travon Baker knocked down a triple to pull NIU even with 15:44 left in the half.
Baker finished with five points, a career-best eight assists and two steals, which moved him into a tie with Darion “Jake” Anderson for ninth in career steals with 108.
NIU (7-6, 1-1 MAC) pushed the five-point burst to a 10-0 run on three points by junior wing Chuks Iroegbu and a pair of free throws by Threloff as the Huskies took a five point lead, 43-38, with 12:42 to play. A basket by Khaliq Spicer and a triple by Devareaux Manley pulled Kent State right back even, 43-43, just over a minute later.
