NORMAL, ILLINOIS – The Rochester Rockets rolled through the playoffs and kept rolling in the Illinois Class 4A football championship game on Friday night. Rochester racked up 492 yards of ...

WILMETTE — Rochester High School’s football team in a running-clock affair? That’s nothing new. But the Rockets ... The top performances from Week 2 Illinois high school football in the ...

ROCHESTER — It was only a seven-point lead for Rochester midway through the second quarter, which, in this year of dominance by the Rockets, was cause for clutching the pearls just a bit.

DEKALB — Since preseason summer workers, Rochester coach Derek Leonard and the Rockets had a single-minded goal — become the first Illinois public school to win four state titles in a row.

DEKALB, Ill. (AP) — Since preseason summer workouts, Rochester coach Derek Leonard and the Rockets had a single-minded goal: become the first Illinois public school to win four state titles in a ...