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.

Jaelynn Anthony tossed a complete-game three-hit shutout with eight strikeouts to lead Oswego softball to a win at Plainfield North, plus Sandwich baseball and softball, Oswego East softball and Yorkville Christian baseball results.

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.

Logan Huegel homered for the second straight day, and third time in five games, and Ian Datwyler also went deep as visiting Plainfield North blasted past Oswego East 17-1 in five innings to take the first two games of the Southwest Prairie West series.

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.

Speed is always the name of the game for Oswego sophomore Adalynn Fugitt, but her tools aren't limited to her feet. She checked all the boxes – speed, power and pitching – with three doubles at the plate and six strikeouts in the circle in a 10-0 win over Oswego East Monday.

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.