Sycamore girls, Chloe Shere, DeKalb’s Alex Schwantes win conference titles: Saturday’s Daily Chronicle roundup

Interstate 8 Conference Championships: At Baker Park in La Salle, Sycamore sophomore Chloe Shere finished first, leading six Spartans in the top 10 as they won the team title.

Shere finished in 19:25.5, 10 seconds ahead of Kaneland sophomore Macey Jug, who took third.

Sycamore sophomores Alana Fix (19:44.5), Kylie Kula (19:55.3) and Anna Anderson (20:02.7) took the next three spots, with Spartan freshman Violet Groom (20:31.5) seventh.

Senior Kendall Green was ninth in 21:10.3.

Sycamore finished with 19 points, 20 ahead of runner-up Morris. Kaneland did not finish with a team score.

DuPage Valley Conference Championships: At the NIU North 40 Championship Course in DeKalb, DeKalb’s Alex Schwantes took first in 17:51.8, almost 40 seconds ahead of the runner-up.

Sophomore Samantha Schwantes was 13th in a personal-best 19:13.8, the only two Barbs in the top 50. As a team, they were last in the six-team field, two points behind Waubonsie Valley.

Big Northern Conference Championships: At Centennial Park in Rock Falls, Genoa-Kingston was third in the six-team field, powered by top 10 finishes from Emma James and Grace Pena.

James finished in 19:34 to take eighth and Pena was ninth in 19:46.1. The Cogs finished with 82 points. Dixon was second with 59 and Winnebago won with 28.

Interstate 8 Conference Championships: At Baker Park in La Salle, Carson Kaiser was second and Gavin Smith fourth, helping Kaneland win the title with 33 points, holding off Morris (67) and Sycamore (68).

Kaiser finished in a season-best 15:12.2 and Smith had a PR of 15:40.3. Nolan Reutimann joined his teammates in the top 10, taking sixth in 15:46.9.

Sycamore’s Jack Daskal finished 0.3 seconds behind Smith for fourth, which would have moved the Spartans into second place. Luke Miller was eighth for Sycamore (16:03.3).

DuPage Valley Conference Championships: At the NIU North 40 Championship Course in DeKalb, Andy Duran took 12th for DeKalb in 15:57.4.

DeKalb did not have enough runners to finish with a team score.

Big Northern Conference Championships: At Centennial Park in Rock Falls, Gabriel Pena took 16th for Genoa-Kingston in 16:45.6 as Genoa-Kingston was fifth out of eight teams with 162 points.

Class 1A Belvidere North Sectional: At Belvidere, Sycamore won the sectional with 23 points, with singles player Maysen Pethoud and doubles team Avery Olson and Liliana Vasquez qualifying for state.

Kaneland finished in a tie for fifth, with freshman Makayla Shields taking fourth to earn a trip to state.

Pethoud was third to earn her trip to the season finale. Olson and Vasquez are 20-2 and took second after losing to the Belvidere North duo of Leilani Mora and Emily Wieja, 6-4, 6-0.

Class 2A Harlem Sectional: At Machesney Park, the season came to an end for the DeKalb tennis team, with none of the Barbs’ entries reaching the semifinals.