Newark's Kiara Wesseh advanced to Saturday's state finals in all four of her events, leading qualifiers at Thursday's Class 1A preliminaries, and Oswego baseball beat Oswego East in eight innings in Thursday's roundup.
Serena senior pitcher Carson Baker overcame early jitters to help pitch the Huskers past Yorkville Christian 7-3 in Thursday's Class 1A Serena Regional semifinal.
Joe Guiliano struck out six in a complete game five-hit shutout, and Plainfield North beat Yorkville 1-0 in the finale of a three-game series and in the process denied the Foxes the Southwest Prairie West league championship.
Serena defeated Yorkviile Christian 7-3 in the Class 1A Regional semifinal game on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at Serena High School.
Area teams including Marmion Academy, Rock Falls, Sandwich, Sterling, Dixon, Mendota, Plano, Sycamore, Wheaton Academy and St. Francis were at Sycamore High School Thursday to compete in the IHSA Class 2A boys track sectional.
Plano senior Waleed Johnson, who won triple jump, ran on the winning 4x100 relay in a school record 42.88 seconds, took second in the 100 and ran a 400 split of 51.4 seconds in the 4x400 relay at the Kishwaukee River Conference meet, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week.
Yorkville's Owen Horeni won the 800-meter run to lead area state qualifiers at the Class 3A Moline Sectional, and Yorkville softball's Ellie Fox struck out seven in a one-hit shutout in Wednesday's roundup.
Gabby Mcphee found herself open and Gulbrandsen delivered a perfect pass. The sophomore midfielder delivered, tapping in an insurance goal as the Wolves outlasted Oswego 2-0 in a Lockport Class 3A semifinal match.
Jaelynn Anthony hit one of Oswego's four homers, giving her 12 on the year and the team 44, and doubled in the go-ahead run in a five-run seventh as the visiting Panthers beat Oswego East 14-9 in the regular season finale for both teams.