The Ottawa baseball team used a go-ahead, two-run single by Logan Cottingham in the sixth inning to earn a come-from-behind 8-5 victory over Plano at King Field in Ottawa on Tuesday.

The Marquette baseball team kept its strong start to the season going Monday, as the Cru scored 11 times in the second inning and finished with 21 total hits in a 21-1 victory in five innings over host Newark.

Marquette defeated Newark 21-1 on Monday, March 23, 2026 at Newark High School.

The 2026 baseball season starts this week. Here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.

Michael Hilker, who was the 2022 Record Newspapers baseball Player of the Year at Yorkville, was drafted on Monday by the Minnesota Twins in the 20th round and 599th overall selection of the Major League Baseball draft.

Nate Hill, a 34-year-old Plano native who will be entering his 11th school year in the school district this fall, will do so as the high school’s new athletic director. Hill, previously a special education teacher and baseball and basketball coach, started his job as AD July 1.

Here is the 2025 Record Newspapers All-Area baseball team.

Sandwich junior Braden Behringer, who starred both on the mound and at the plate for the Indians this spring, is the 2025 Record Newspapers Baseball Player of the Year.

Here is the All-Southwest Prairie Conference baseball team for the 2025 season, as selected by coaches.