Kane County Week 9 notes: With DuKane Conference up for grabs, Batavia’s Ryan Myers goes both ways on the line

Ryan Myers is already a towering presence on Batavia ’s offensive line.

At 6-foot-5 and 285 pounds, the Princeton commit has been an anchor for one of the biggest offensive line units in the state of Illinois.

But heading into Week 9 against Wheaton Warrenville South with a chance to clinch a DuKane Conference title, Myers was asked to do something he’d only done once or twice his freshman year.

Play defense.

“It was honestly a pretty crazy sequence,” Myers said. “The coaches pulled the offensive linemen aside the Monday before and told us they wanted to try us out on the defensive line. They wanted to see what we could do heading into the playoffs, especially with some of our guys on the line being banged up.

“They just kind of threw us into the fire to see if we would either sink