News and articles about Yorkville high school sports, from Kendall County Now
NIU recruit Dyllan Malone, going into his third varsity season, will lead a talented, deep receiving corps for Yorkville this fall.
With the release of the 2024 statewide football schedule, here are the top games to watch, week by week, in the Record Newspapers coverage area.
Yorkville’s Carson Converse and Josiah Aguado topped the 24-team field to win the first first unofficial Illinois High School Pickleball Championship on Thursday in Naperville. The Crystal Lake Central team of Kasparas Venslauskas and Drew Watson earned third.
Yorkville senior Kam Yearsley, who followed up a monster junior season by hitting .462 with nine doubles, 13 homers, 54 RBIs and 34 runs scored this spring in leading the Foxes to a 21-win season, is the Record Newspapers baseball Player of the Year.
Here is the 2024 Record Newspapers All-Area baseball team.
Here is the 2024 Record Newspapers All-Area softball team.
Led by Player of the Year Anya Gulbrandsen, here is the 2024 Record Newspapers All-Area soccer team.
Yorkville sophomore Owen Horeni, who took fourth place in the Class 3A 800-meter run at the IHSA state meet in May, is the Record Newspapers boys track and field Athlete of the Year.
Junior catcher Kiyah Chavez of state finalist Oswego and senior pitcher Kodi Rizzo of sectional finalist Newark were among those Kendall County-area players selected to the Illinois Coaches Association All-State teams released this past weekend.
Yorkville sophomore Owen Horeni battled a tough field to finish fourth in the 800, Oswego freshman Dontrell Young was fifth in the 400 and Yorkville jumper Taelor Clements, Oswego East's 4x800 relay and Sandwich junior Simeion Harris took seventh at state.
Iowa recruit Kiyah Chavez continued a breakout season with her program record 55th hit, a rocket RBI double in the first, and Oswego rolled from there to a 9-1 win over Yorkville in the Class 4A Oswego Regional final for the program's first regional title since 1987.
Oswego softball faced Yorkville in the Class 4A Oswego Regional final on Friday, May 24, 2024.
Matt Knapczyk reached base five times, and started Neuqua Valley's game-winning rally as the Wildcats twice blew leads to Yorkville but scored four runs in the top of the seventh for an 11-7 win in Thursday's Class 4A Neuqua Valley Regional semifinal.
Yorkville faced Neuqua Valley in a Class 4A Neuqua Valley Regional semifinal baseball game in Naperville on Thursday, May 23, 2024.
Yorkville sent eight batters to the plate in the first inning, nine more in the second and 10 in the third before ending the game in the fourth in a 16-1 win over Waubonsie Valley on Thursday in a Class 4A Oswego Regional semifinal.
Yorkville sophomore Owen Horeni was a two-time state medalist as a freshman, and posted the state's top 800 time at sectionals last week. Now he leads Kendall County area medal hopefuls at Charleston this weekend.
Newark's Kiara Wesseh medaled in all four events, including a second consecutive win in the high jump, and Sandwich's Sundara Weber won the 3,200, along with other results from Day 2 of the IHSA girls track and field state championships.
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.
Newark senior Kiara Wesseh, who signed her letter of intent with Baylor last week, is set to defend her Class 1A state high jump title this weekend among her four events at state. Wesseh, Sandwich's Sunny Weber and Yorkville's Courtney Clabough lead medal hopefuls in Charleston.
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.
Yorkville's girls and Oswego East's boys won the team title at Yorkville's Matt Wulf Invitational on Friday, with Yorkville boys finishing second.
Minooka improved to 8-1-1 on the season after an 11-3 victory to spoil the grand opening of Yorkville’s all-turf softball field.
Yorkville sophomore Kayla Kersting, who had a three-run home run and RBI single in a win over Benet and went 2 for 3 with an RBI against Antioch, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote. Here is her Q&A with Joshua Welge.
Yorkville hosted Benet in girls varsity softball on Friday, April 5, 2024.
Kayla Kersting slugged a three-run home run among two run-scoring hits, Regan Bishop added two RBI singles and Yorkville, playing for the first time in almost two weeks, showed no rust in blasting past visiting Benet 9-3 on Friday.
Sandwich baseball looks to have quality and depth in its pitching staff, and early returns have backed that thought up. Now the Indians need more games to showcase that depth. That, plus notes on Yorkville and Yorkville Christian from Joshua Welge.
The 2024 boys track season heads outdoors soon. Here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.
The high school track and field season goes outdoors soon. Here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.
New synthetic turf baseball and softball fields, a $3.1 million project, are tentatively – weather permitting – scheduled to be unveiled for games the first weeks of April. 'I think we brought the wow back to Yorkville.'
Seth Kisner went the distance on the mound, and Nate Stempowski doubled in Kollin Mickelsen with the eventual winning run as Geneva overcame Kam Yearsley's two-homer game for a 5-4 win at Yorkville.
Yorkville senior Dominic Vashkelis-Benson, who won the shot put at the Southwest Prairie Conference indoor track and field championships with a throw of 15.37 meters, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote.
The 2024 girls soccer season is underway. Here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.
Here is the 2023-2024 Record Newspapers All-Area boys basketball team.
Minnesota recruit Simon Skroch struck out eight over four shutout innings, and Kentucky commit Nate Harris slugged a two-run home run in Yorkville's 8-1 win over Lincoln-Way Central in Tuesday's season opener.
The high school softball season starts this week. Here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.
The 2024 high school baseball season starts this week. Here are previews of teams from around the Record Newspapers coverage area.