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.
Brooklyn Marks struck out 12 in a three-run shutout in a Sandwich softball win and Chance Lange homered and drove in five runs in a Sandwich baseball win in Thursday's roundup.
Plano sophomore Kaylee Klatt, who won the 100-meter hurdles and the 300 hurdles, and anchored Plano’s 4x200 relay to a second-place finish as the Reapers as a team finished third at the Indian Creek Invite, is the Record Newspapers Athlete of the Week in an online vote.