News and articles about Yorkville high school sports, from Kendall County Now
Led by Wisconsin recruit Liz Phillips, who swept the two distance races, Naperville Central edged Downers Grove North to take the team title at the Class 3A Downers Grove North Sectional. Among other state qualifiers, Yorkville's Courtney Clabough swept the throwing events.
Rikka Ludvigson reached base four times, came a hit shy of hitting for the cycle, and drove in three runs. Oswego, in a game played in a hard drizzle throughout, poured it on offensively in a 21-11, five-inning Southwest Prairie Conference win on Yorkville’s all-turf field.
Yorkville junior Preston Regnier took a shutout into the sixth inning of his latest strong outing, and the Foxes beat Oswego East 8-1 in the first of a three-game series to remain tied for the Southwest Prairie West race.
Ryan Williams played her junior season with a torn ACL in her left knee, and tore the other ACL before her freshman year. But the Newark senior shortstop is back and better than ever to spark the 19-3 Norsemen. That plus notes on Oswego, Yorkville and Oswego East from Josh Welge.
Taeopae Wetterman’s day as an athletic trainer at Yorkville High School starts well before the first ball is rolled out for games or practices. She likes it that way.
Taylor McClain anchored two of Plainfield North's four relay wins and later won the 200-meter dash, as the Tigers raced to their first Southwest Prairie Conference track and field championship since 2010.
Kentucky recruit Nate Harris hit a tying grand slam, and Joe Onasch – in his first game in over a month – hit the go-ahead two-run homer as visiting Yorkville rallied from an early 6-0 deficit to beat Oswego 8-7 in the first of a three-game series.
Oswego hosted Yorkville in varsity baseball on Monday, April 29, 2024.
Yorkville's Kameron Yearsley set a nearly impossible standard with a monster junior year – but the Foxes' senior is catching fire and doing it again. That, Plano and Sandwich sitting atop a new league and more in Joshua Welge's baseball notes.
Hinckley-Big Rock wins baseball, Genoa-Kingston wins girls soccer. That and more in Monday's roundup.
Despite moving the meet to West Aurora, Kaneland track and field had 11 athletes finish on the podium en route to a win in the Peterson Prep Invitational.
Lundin Cornelius might not look like the prototypical cleanup hitter, but she's got a lot of power and kept coming through with big hits Wednesday. Her biggest went the shortest distance, an infield chopper that scored Ronnie Craft in Oswego East's 8-7 walkoff win over Yorkville.
Oswego East hosted Yorkville softball on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.
Kameron Yearsley hit a three-run home run for the first homer on Yorkville's new baseball field, and the Foxes opened the turf field with a 15-5, five-inning win over West Aurora on Monday.
Yorkville played their first game on the school's new turf field against West Aurora on Monday, April 15, 2024.