SYCAMORE – It would have been silly to think that Lilly and Lally couldn’t come through on the big stage that is the Northern
Illinois Big 12 Conference
wrestling tournament.

Curtis Lilly, a Sterling senior, and Kylian Lally, a Dixon junior, both claimed titles at the event Saturday in Sycamore. Two more local wrestlers, Jaden Urrutia and Isaac Anderson of Sterling, also qualified for the finals, but took second.

Lally, whose only previous high school tournament championship was at the Sterling Invite last month, was the class of the field at 138 pounds after claiming a 7-4 decision against Daniel Close of Ottawa. The wrestlers had split a pair of regular-season bouts.