SPORTS ROUNDUP

Softball

Oregon 2, Rochelle 1: The Hawks scored the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the sixth on a Madi Shaffer RBI single.

Reilee Suter and Ella Dannhorn scored the runs for the Hawks. Emma Schlichtmann pitched a complete game for the win, allowing one unearned run and three hits and striking out 10 without a walk.

Oregon 5, Stillman Valley 4: Ava Hackman hit a home run and Haleigh Burkhart scored the winning run as the Hawks edged the Cardinals. Emma Schlichtmann lasted 4 2/3 innings in the circle for Oregon, allowing one unearned run and two hits, striking out two and walking five.

Polo 11, AFC 1: Senior Lindee Poper drove in five runs on a double and her first career over-the-fence home run – a grand slam – as the Marcos rolled to an NUIC South win over the visiting Raiders. Cheyenna Wilkins pitched five innings for the win, allowing one run and one hit and striking out nine with no walks.

Forreston 7, Milledgeville 6: Rylee Broshous had two RBIs and Brooke Boettner hit an RBI double for Forreston. Alaina Miller earned the win with three innings of relief.

Aubrey Sanders pitched the first four innings for the Cardinals, allowing two runs and five hits and striking out four with two walks.

Baseball

Rochelle 6, Forreston 2: Kendall Erdmann went 2 for 2 and Carson Akins and Brendan Greenfield drove in the runs for Forreston.

Alex Milnes struck out two batters, walked none and allowed one hit over 1 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of starter Alec Schoonhoven and reliever Owen Greenfield.

Oregon 12, Genoa-Kingston 5: Gavin Morrow, Jack Washburn, Dom Terlikowski and Logan Weems had two hits apiece for Oregon. Morrow had four RBIs and Terlikowski, Washburn and Josh Crandall added two RBIs each. Miley Smith drew two walks and scored three runs.

Washburn pitched 6 2/3 innings for the win, allowing five runs (one earned) and seven hits, striking out five and walking two.

Forreston 14, Milledgeville 4 (5 inn.): Brendan Greenfield went 3 for 4 with two RBIs and Owen Greenfield went 2 for 2 with two walks, a home run and four RBIs to lead Forreston. Patrick Wichman and Kendall Erdmann had two hits each, and Brady Gill added two RBIs for the Cardinals.

Four Forreston pitchers combined to give up two earned runs and eight hits, with six strikeouts and four walks.

AFC 14, Polo 5: Scott Robertson had two

Earleen Hinton/Shaw Media Oregon’s Abigail Fletcher gets ready to connect for a hit during May 1 action against Stillman Valley at Oregon Park West.

RBIs and Nolan Hahn scored two runs for Polo. Three Marcos pitchers gave up seven earned runs, 12 hits and five walks, with four strikeouts.

Girls soccer

Oregon 5, Princeton 0: Alyssa Mowry scored two goals and assisted on two more to lead the Hawks past the Tigresses in a nonconference road game.

Mya Engelkes, Teagan Champley and Jazmyne Swope scored one goal each.

Oregon 6, Faith Christian 0: Alyssa Mowry and Teagan Champley scored two goals apiece, and Kenna Wubbena and Emily Watters chipped in one goal each.

Girls track and field

Oregon places fourth: The Hawks finished fourth at the eight-team Winnebago Invite, scoring 95.5 points to finish behind Guilford (166), Rockford Christian (121) and the host Indians (118).

Sonya Plescia won the pole vault (2.85 meters) and Hadley Lutz took the long jump (5.10 meters) to lead the Hawks. Lutz also ran on three top-four relays. She teamed with Ava Wight, Lexi Ebert and Miranda Ciesiel to take third in the 4x200 (1:51.98) and fourth in the 4x100 (52.47 seconds), and joined Plescia, Jennica Ciesiel and Skylar Bishop to place third in the 4x400 (4:20.79).

Jennica Ciesiel teamed with Ellen Hodson, Gabriele Hoyle and Deleanah Koertner for a runner-up finish in the 4x800 (11:32.43), and added a third in the high jump (1.47 meters); Bishop finished fourth (1.37 meters).

Sophia Stender (16.97 seconds) and Rylie Robertson (17.19 seconds) finished 3-4 in the 100 hurdles and 4-5 in the 300 hurdles (Stender 54.30, Robertson 55.79). Wight added a fourth in the triple jump (9.68 meters).

Continued from Page 14 years ago in placing third in the state,” an excited Hardin said.

Taylor provided 10 team points with a first-place high jump of 6 feet.

The low point of the meet for the team came in the 300 hurdles, when Dane Setterstrom suffered a broken arm falling over a hurdle. An ambulance had to be called, delaying the action for 15 minutes.

“What a shame, and what a good kid he is,” Hardin said. “He came down trying to

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brace his fall and definitely broke it.”

Winnebago won the meet with 99 points, with Class 2A Woodstock (73) and Rockford Christian (72) next. A surprise fifth-place finisher was Milledgeville-Eastland with 57 points in the 24-team field. It was their highest finish ever in a meet considered tops for small-school track and field in northern Illinois.

Leading the way were individual champs Kacen Johnson and Kolton Wilk. Both are seniors and returning state qualifiers.

Evan James led Oregon with a fourthplace finish in the discus (39.19 meters).

Oregon’s Evan James throws the discus in the finals at the Hawk Classic on Friday, April 28.