Marquette baseball's Griffin Dobberstein homered twice, while Georgia Kirkpatrick scored a hat trick to lead the Ottawa girls soccer team to a season-opening win. That and more in The Times Tuesday Roundup.

The Hall and Mendota baseball teams scored in the seventh inning to pull out wins, plus more baseball and softball results in Tuesday's NewsTribune roundup.

The Plainfield South baseball team was more solid than host Streator in the fundamentals Tuesday, and over seven innings it added up to a 10-1 Cougars win over the Bulldogs.

Taylor Vescagni was punching them out and Anna Riva was hitting them out for the La Salle-Peru softball team at Princeton’s Little Siberia Field on Tuesday. Vescagni pitched six no-hit innings with 12 strikeouts. Riva blasted two home runs.

Seneca senior Camryn Stecken hit a two-run homer in the third inning to help spark Fighting Irish softball in an 11-1, five-inning win over St. Bede in their Tri-County Conference opener.

The Ottawa baseball team used a go-ahead, two-run single by Logan Cottingham in the sixth inning to earn a come-from-behind 8-5 victory over Plano at King Field in Ottawa on Tuesday.

A look at the La Salle-Peru, DePue-Hall, Mendota, Princeton and the new St. Bede JV girls soccer teams.

The Princeton Public Library invites the community to join Library Giving Day on Wednesday, April 1 — a one-day online fundraiser to expand the digital collection of eBooks and audiobooks.

The Streator City Council approved contracts for materials used in its annual street maintenance program.

The Streator City Council approved updates to its financial policies while raising spending limits during its meeting last week.