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Cesar Casas sets Mendota goals record in win over Monmouth-Roseville: Saturday’s NewsTribune/BCR roundup · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Cesar
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  Casas sets Mendota goals record and win over Monmouth Roseville, Saturday,
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  News Tribune BCR Roundup. Written by Kevin Schlum. This article
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  is being read by an automated voice, brought to you by Everlit.
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  Boy Suckser. Mendota 5, Monmouth Roseville 0. Entering high school, Caesar Cassus
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  aimed to become the Trojans career leader in goals scored. On Saturday,
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  he accomplished defeat as he scored four goals in a three Rivers
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  conference victory in Mendota. It feels great to break the record, Casa
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  said. It is a great accomplishment. I had a feeling that I
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  would break the record. Going into my freshman year, I made it
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  a goal for myself and told all my friends that I
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  would one day break the record. And my friends are to thank
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  for part of my success because they delivered the ball to me
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  perfectly to score Casas now has 114 career goals to surpass
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  2021 News Tribune Boys Soccer Player of the Year, Yahir Diaz, who
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  scored 113. I have always played an attacking role since I was
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  a kid, Cassis said. Every time I get the ball I always
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  look to score. You have to score to win a game, so
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  by scoring I am doing my job. I keep my composure when
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  I get the ball in front of the goal. Casa said it
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  took a lot of hard work to reach the top of Mendota's
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  goals list. It took a lot of training to get this far,
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  Casa said. Having the expectations and trust of my teammates makes me
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  want to improve more and more so I don't let anyone down.
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  There's been lots of training at the fields in town alone and
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  with my friends. Having my teammates give me the opportunities to score
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  in games also helped me reach the record. Casas holds the record
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  now, but who ends the season with it is still up in
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  the air as classmate Isaac Diaz is third on the career scoring
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  list with 111 goals. Johan Cortez, the 2024 and 2025 News Tribune
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  Boys Soccer Player of the Year, is fourth with 109. Caesar has
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  been one of those types of players every coach wants. Mendota coach
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  Nick Myers said. He's a very coachable player. He works hard. He's
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  always wanting to improve his game, and he listens. He's dependable. You
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  know the effort you'll get from him, day in and day out.
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  He's a great teammate and a great leader. He's the type of
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  kid I want our freshmen looking up to. Caesar has been clutch
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  for us since his freshman year. The lights or moment are never
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  too big for him. His goals don't just come against easier opponents,
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  he scores in the biggest games as well. Clutch is the word
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  I like to use to describe him. K1E3, Princeton 1. The
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  Tigers lost a three Rivers Conference game in Princeton. The Tigers fell
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  to 212 overall and 0-5 in the conference. Cross country. At Walnut
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  La Salle Peru, Senior Gianni Verrucchi ran the three-mile course in 1614.7
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  to place third among 199 runners at Bureau Valley's Dale Donner Invitational.
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  Amboy co-ops Henry Nichols 1654 placed 11th and had three teammates join
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  him in the top 50 as Tyler Maharete, 59.1 was 36th, Anthony
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  Linder 1802 4 was 38th and Channing Bellows 1809 9 was 32nd,
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  The Clippers finished fifth in the team standings with 160 points. Elmwood
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  Brimfield won the 22 team field with 37. Bureau Valley, 288,
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  was
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  15th Saint Bede 309 was 18th.
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  LaSalle Peru 419 was 16th. Henry Midland 462 was 19th in hall.
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  583 was 22nd. Putnam County's Carter Baxter, seventeen fifty point one,
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  finished thirty-first, and Henry Midland's Max Dalton, eighteen oh three. Three was
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  thirty-ninth. In the girls race, Bureau Valley's Gemma Moore was the top
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  area finisher as she placed 20th and 21, 25.7. St. Bede's Gemma
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  Finley, 21 50.2. Finished 29th Bureau Valley Summer Hamilton, 22-10.5
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  was 32nd. Amboys Katie Phelps, 22-21.4 was 35th, and Mendota's
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  Lumen Setchell, 22-38.4, was 42nd. Elmwood Brimfield also won
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  the girls title, scoring 43 points to top the 18 team field.
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  The Storm 203 were fifth, Mendota 332 was fifteenth, and
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  La Salle Peru 432 was 18th. At Geneseo, Princeton's Ruby Acker,
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  2052, and Peyton Frew, 2057, placed third and fourth, respectively, in the
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  senior girls race at the Genesisa Invite. Classmate Alexander Waka was thirteenth
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  in twenty-three-twenty-five. In the junior girls race, Princeton Susanna Bones was twelfth
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  and twenty-five, zero zero. Princeton's top male finisher was Brady Gross, who
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  took twenty-third in twenty fifty-seven in the sophomore boys race. Woman's tennis
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  IVCC 9 Elgin Zero, the Eagles won their final regular season match
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  against a regional opponent on Sunday in Aurora. Ellie Taylor won 8-0
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  at number one singles and teamed with Jacqueline Hernandez Solas to win
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  8-1 at number 1 doubles. Grace Secchio won 8-0 at number 2
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  singles for IVCC. Women's Volleyball At Sugar Grove, IVCC went 3-1
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  over the weekend at the Wabansi Tournament. The Eagles beat Olive Harvey
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  22 25 25 11 25 17 25 22 McHenry
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  County 25 17 26 28 25 18 26 24
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  and Carl Sandberg 14 25 25 16 25 20 25 14 before
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  losing to Parkland 17 25 25 17 25 17 2518