Yorkville senior Grady Phillips won a singles sectional championship, Newark softball won a regional title and Yorkville, Newark and Yorkville Christian baseball were both winners Saturday, Newark in a 10-inning thriller.

Sandwich senior Sunny Weber advanced to the state finals in the Class 2A 1,600-meter run, Yorkville softball won a wild one over Wheaton Warrenville South to win a regional title, and Yorkville and Oswego boys volleyball were regional winners Friday, plus baseball results.

Yorkville baseball finished off a three-game sweep of Bolingbrook and Plano baseball was also a winner Thursday.

Yorkville senior Grady Phillips, who won the No. 1 singles championship at the Southwest Prairie Conference tennis meet and has an 18-2 record on the season with a 10-0 record in SPC regular season matches, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. His Q&A:

The IHSA girls track and field state finals take place Thursday-Saturday at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston. Here is the full list of state qualifiers from the Kendall County area.

Yorkville boys track and field won the Moline Sectional with Aiden Kolkmeyer winning three events and Owen Horeni and Jayden Ruth two, Lindsay Ingemunson's hat trick led Yorkville soccer to a regional win and Plano's Quentin Santoria struck out 11 in a three-hit shutout.

Oswego, Newark and Yorkville softball won regional semifinals, Yorkville's Gabe Sanders struck out 12 in a complete-game shutout and Oswego, Oswego East and Sandwich baseball also won on Tuesday.

Kayden Corneils homered twice and drove in six runs and Abigail Johnson also went deep twice to power Sandwich softball past Newark, Alyssa Muhlbach had four hits in Yorkville softball's win over Lockport and Sandwich and Plano baseball were also winners Saturday.

Bella Rosauer struck out 11 in a four-inning perfect game as Yorkville softball clinched the outright Southwest Prairie Conference title, Oswego East softball scored eight runs in the seventh to rally past Joliet West, and Yorkville baseball rode an eight-run first to a win.

The IHSA has released the baseball playoff schedule. Here are pairings for Kendall County-area teams.

Oswego East, shut out by Oswego and Yorkville by a combined 17-0 in April, has flipped the switch in successive Wednesdays. Katie Maday singled in the tie-breaking run in the sixth and sophomore pitcher Faith Hagerty made it stand in the Wolves' 3-2 win at Yorkville.

Yorkville scored 112.5 points as a team at the Southwest Prairie Conference Boys Track championship to finish in first place.

Yorkville's Callie Ferko walked leading off the bottom of the 12th in a game with Oswego suspended last week and scored the game-winner on Austyn Strike's grounder as the Foxes beat the Panthers 4-3 to clinch the Southwest Prairie Conference championship.

Yorkville's Ellie Fox tossed a no-hitter with 14 strikeouts, Oswego's Jaelynn Anthony hit a tie-breaking homer in a comeback win over Minooka and Oswego East baseball took its series opener with Oswego.

Behind a three-title performance by Natalie Nahs, Minooka won its first Southwest Prairie Conference girls track and field championship since 2017.

Bailey Brummel's hat trick send Sandwich soccer past Plano to the first win in program history, Yorkville baseball rallied from a seven-run deficit to beat Oswego East and Austyn Strike and Kayla Kersting in Yorkville softball's win over Plainfield North.

Yorkville sophomore pitcher Bella Rosauer and her counterpart, Oswego senior Jaelynn Anthony, worked out of multiple jams with stellar relief as the two Southwest Prairie Conference leaders played into extra innings, the game suspended in the 12th due to darkness.

Yorkville baseball rode a nine-run first inning past Oswego East, Oswego baseball split two games with Minooka, and Yorkville Christian baseball and Oswego East softball were winners Tuesday.

The IHSA has released the girls soccer playoff schedule. Here are pairings for Kendall County-area teams.

Jayden Ruth won the 100, 200 and anchored the winning 4x100 relay to lead Yorkville to the Red Ribbon Classic title, Oswego East won the Palatine Relays, Oswego East softball scored eight runs in the seventh for a comeback win and Yorkville Christian baseball won in a walkoff.

Yorkville baseball finished off a three-game sweep of Oswego, Yorkville Christian's Phoenix Oliver tossed a complete-game one-hitter at Plano, and Oswego East and Parkview Christian baseball and Oswego, Oswego East and Yorkville softball all won big Thursday.

Eastin McBroom struck out 17 and Shawn Seyller hit a walk-off single in Newark's 2-1 win over Earlville, Yorkville softball scored five runs in the sixth and two in the seventh to rally past Minooka, and more in Wednesday’s Record Newspapers sports roundup.

Jaelynn Anthony hit three home runs with a tying two-run homer and go-ahead grand slam, in the process breaking Oswego's homer record to rally the Panthers at Minooka, Plano's Quentin Santoria struck out 13 and homered, plus Yorkville baseball and softball were winners Tuesday.

Geneva topped Yorkville volleyball, plus Sandwich soccer results in Monday's roundup.

Yorkville senior right-hander has been bringing the heat in relief all year, not allowing a run in 10 1/3 innings as closer. On Monday, he got a key hit to support Gabe Sanders' pitching in a 5-4 win over Oswego in a game shortened due to lightning.

Yorkville softball won two games Saturday to win the championship of the Bradley-Bourbonnais Invitational and Oswego East softball, Yorkville and Yorkville Christian baseball were also winners while Yorkville volleyball was sixth at the Brother Rice Smack Attack.

St. Charles North scored 41 of its 97 points across three distance races as the North Stars won the team title at the 53rd annual Peterson Prep Invitational. Host Kaneland took a slim second over Yorkville to round out the podium.

Kam Yearsley never believed he would have a season quite like his junior year at Yorkville. What he’s doing this year is unbelievable. A sophomore now at John A. Logan College, Yearsley is one away from tying the National Junior College Athletic Association record with 37 homers.

Oswego girls track tied for the team title of its Mike Schable Invitational, Yorkville girls track won the title of the Megan Sporny Invitational at West Aurora, Oswego East was second at Neuqua Valley and Plano and Parkview Christian baseball and Yorkville softball won games.

Plano's girls track team won its Field of Dreams Invite and the boys team was second, and Oswego, Oswego East and Yorkville Christian baseball, Yorkville, Oswego and Oswego East softball and Yorkville volleyball were winners Thursday.

Lexi McCluskey's corner goal kick late in the game sent Plainfield Central past Yorkville on Thursday.

Yorkville senior Kayla Kersting, who batted .750 (9-for-12), with three doubles, a triple, a home run, nine runs scored and seven RBIs in four wins last week, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is her Q&A with Sports Editor Josh Welge.

Ellie Fox struck out 12, Austyn Strike hit a grand slam and Alyssa Muhlbach a two-run homer in a Yorkville softball win, Plano's Julian Gates homered twice in a 19-17 loss, plus Oswego and Yorkville baseball, Sandwich softball and Newark baseball and softball results.

Gabe Sanders and Frankie Pavlik combined on a seven-hitter with nine strikeouts in Yorkville baseball's win over Minooka, Oswego baseball beat Bolingbrook in its Southwest Prairie West opener and more in Monday's roundup.

Braden Behringer singled in Nick Michalek in the bottom of the seventh as Sandwich rallied for a walk-off win, Sandwich softball scored four in the seventh for a comeback win, Callie Ferko and Kayla Kersting homered in a Yorkville win and Yorkville Christian baseball swept two.

The Yorkville boys and girls track and field teams swept the team titles at their Matt Wulf Invitational, and Yorkville Christian baseball took the second game of a series with Parkview Christian in Friday's roundup.

Freshman Alyssa Muhlbach sparked Yorkville's seventh-inning rally with a leadoff single, Ellie Fox singled her in and the Foxes tacked on three more runs for an 8-4 win at Oswego on Friday.

Betsy Jack's two homers, including a grand slam, powered Oswego softball past Plainfield Central, Alyssa Muhlbach and Ellie Fox homered in Yorkville's nine-run inning in a win, Newark softball held on to beat Amboy 14-13, and Sandwich softball and Oswego baseball were winners.

Yorkville senior Owen Horeni, who took third place in the 800-meter run at the prestigious Arcadia Invitational in California in 1:50.25, breaking his own school record, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is his Q&A with Sports Editor Josh Welge.

Yorkville softball rallied from a four-run deficit for a walk-off win over Minooka and Oswego, Oswego East and Newark softball and Sandwich baseball were also winners Monday.

Yorkville senior Gabe Sanders didn't allow a 39-minute weather delay to faze him, and took a no-hitter into the sixth inning with nine strikeouts as the Foxes beat visiting Romeoville 3-0 in Monday's Southwest Prairie Conference crossover game.

Oswego East's Jamari McKay won the 100 and triple jump among four medals to lead the Wolves to the Stagg Invite title, Adalyn Fugitt's two-run double with two out in the ninth led Oswego softball to a win and Yorkville's Jackson Knickerbocker fired a complete game shutout.

Liv Lathen reached on a bunt with one out in the bottom of the eighth and eventually came around to score ahead of the throw on Kayla Kersting's grounder as Yorkville used little ball late to beat visiting Benet 3-2 on Friday.

Yorkville's Ellie Fox struck out 15 with her 250th career strikeout in a three-hit shutout, Newark's Adelaide Johnson homered twice and drove in six, Oswego East's Andrew Schmidt fired a five-inning no-hitter and Oswego baseball and softball and Sandwich softball were winners.

Yorkville senior Ellie Fox, who struck out 13 in a complete-game two-hitter in a win over Logan and struck out 11 in a win over Johnson City, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is her Q&A with Sports Editor Joshua Welge.

Yorkville's Gavin Shimizu and Brody Dryden threw a combined no-hitter with 11 strikeouts, Newark's David Ulrich struck out 13, Plano's McKenzie Straussberger and Elizabeth Hansel combined to shut out Sandwich and Yorkville's Lindsay Ingemunson and Becca Wasserberg had hat tricks.

Jeffrey Ashley homered as Sandwich baseball won a 16-7 slugfest with Plano, Sandwich softball's Kayden Corneils homered, hit two doubles and drove in three in a win, Gabe Sanders' sharp outing led a Yorkville baseball win and Oswego baseball also won in Monday's roundup.

Yorkville Christian senior guard Jayden Riley was named to the Illinois Media Class 2A All-State First Team in voting released on Sunday. Oswego East senior Mason Lockett earned Honorable Mention in Class 4A.

Yorkville's boys volleyball team won the silver bracket of the West Aurora Invite, and Bryce Baxa slugged two home runs in a Yorkville baseball loss.

West Aurora's boys volleyball team advanced all the way to the championship match of its own invite Saturday, where it took highly regarded Bolingbrook to the limit before falling 25-18, 18-25, 23-25.