Olivia Ewers, Garrett Weichers are the Register's Athletes of the Week

Dallas Center-Grimes girls soccer player Olivia Ewers and Ankeny boys tennis player Garrett Weichers were voted the Des Moines Register's female and male Athlete of the Week winners for the week of April 26-May 2.

Ewers won female Athlete of the Week with 83% of the vote.

She led Class 2A No. 3 Dallas Center-Grimes to a 3-1 victory over No. 12 Bondurant-Farrar on May 1.

Ewers played a role in all three goals for the Mustangs. She dished out two assists and put one goal into the net herself.

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Weichers earned male Athlete of the Week honors with 67% of the vote.

He picked up a victory in the No. 1 singles match during Ankeny's 9-2 loss to Dowling Catholic on April 30.

Weichers defeated Dowling's Landon Cody in straight sets, 7-5 and 6-0.

Joe Randleman covers high school sports for the Ames Tribune. Contact him atjrandleman@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at@JoeRandleman

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Chloe Bailey no-hits Fleming Island, Niceville softball in Sweet 16

NICEVILLE — Chloe Bailey is human, after all.

After tossing a perfect game against Gulf Breeze to lead top-seededNiceville softball(21-7) to a District 1-5A championship, Bailey no-hit eighth-seeded Fleming Island (14-9) with 13 strikeouts compared to one walk in a 3-0 region quarterfinal win at home.

It was Bailey's third no-hitter of the season, the right-handed ace possessing some of the best metrics in the Sunshine State. Her ERA sits at 1.26, opposing batters are hitting .155 with a .212 on-base percentage, and she has 211 strikeouts in 144 2/3 innings for a 17-6 record. The junior's lone blemish Wednesday was a walk to Fleming Island's Emily Williams, just one of two Fleming Island batters to not strike out.

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The 2025 state runner-up offense backed her up by outhitting Fleming Island eight-nothing, getting a pair of base knocks from Carnley Summerlin and Quinn Graham. Summerlin, who's hitting .408, drove in a pair in a 2-for-3 effort and Graham scored two runs and also went 2 for 3 to pad her team-leading .456 batting average and 34 runs. Briana Noles scored the other run as she, Anabelle Shackelford, Sydney Hann and Krissa Troutman had the other hits.

Now the Eagles await the winner of fourth-seeded Gulf Breeze and fifth-seeded Ponte Vedra, who play Thursday night, for a Sweet 16 date Tuesday in Niceville. Winners of four straight, the Eagles split the season series with Gulf Breeze ended ended their season, 5-0, in last year's region quarterfinals. They have not played Ponte Vedra this season.

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Khamzat Chimaev: Conor McGregor's title? 'He lost his belt 10 years ago'

MORRISTOWN, N.J. –Khamzat Chimaevlaughed off Conor McGregor calling the UFC middleweight title his.

UFC middleweight champion Chimaev (15-0 MMA, 9-0 UFC) makes his first title defense againstSean Strickland(30-7 MMA, 17-7 UFC) in Saturday's UFC 328 (Paramount+) main event at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

McGregor (22-6 MMA, 10-4 UFC), who's gearing up for his long-awaited return, shared his excitement for the fight – byclaiming that the belt is his.

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Chimaev was asked about McGregor's comments, and the undefeated phenom reminded him that he hasn't had gold wrapped around his waist since finishing Eddie Alvarez to claim the UFC lightweight title in 2016. McGregor was later stripped due to inactivity.

"His belt?" Chimaev told reporters, including MMA Junkie, at Wednesday's UFC 328 media day. "He lost his belt 10 years ago, so I don't know, this should come off a little bit drugs or is it 'Proper something' he's drinking all the time? Come back to normal and work and let's fight. I don't care – boxing. I told Zuffa Boxing people think I'm just a wrestler. I don't need to use my just boxing. I'm an MMA fighter. If I go to the boxing, I'm going to use it, I'm going to show my boxing, too."

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