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Looking ahead to football playoffs quarterfinal weekend
Barrington’s Vince Costa downs a punt at the 1-yard line against Fremd earlier this season. The Broncos are one of three MSL teams still alive in the football quarterfinals this weekend. John Starks/jstarks@dailyherald.com
Looking ahead to football playoffs quarterfinal weekend

With the football playoffs heading to the quarterfinal round, Kevin Schmit asks if it’s important to play at home.

Prep football

Does home field even matter in the IHSA football playoffs?
Nov 13, 2025 5:49 pm - Let’s talk about home-field advantage. Does it even matter in the IHSA football playoffs? Like with basketball, baseball and many of the other team sports, football doesn’t follow the “top team gets the home game” rule of thinking. At least not after
 
 

John Lemon’s five games to watch.

Prep football

Five high school football quarterfinal playoff games to watch
Nov 13, 2025 4:05 pm - Fremd (10-1) at Bolingbrook (9-2) What a showing for the MSL in the playoffs so far with Barrington, Fremd and Hersey all through to the quarterfinals. The Vikings have a chance to do something in this game Saturday that’s never been done at Fremd be
 
 

Our previews for Cook County.

Prep football

Scouting Cook County playoff football quarterfinals
Nov 13, 2025 6:53 am - Class 8A No. 2 Barrington (10-1) at No. 23 Lockport (8-3) When: Saturday, 6 p.m. Last week: Barrington 38, Glenbrook South 20; Lockport 21, Homewood-Flossmoor 20 Previous meeting: 1st meeting Advancement: Winner plays winner of
 
 

DuPage County

Fox Valley

Prep football

Scouting Fox Valley playoff football quarterfinals
Nov 13, 2025 3:33 pm - Class 7A No. 3 St. Charles North (10-1) at No. 6 Brother Rice (10-1) When: 6 p.m. Saturday About the North Stars: While the conditions for the second round were not ideal for St. Charles North, a 26-23 over No. 14 Carmel was a more-than
 
 

Lake County

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Scouting Lake County playoff football quarterfinals
Nov 13, 2025 7:13 am - Lake Zurich (9-2) at Nazareth Academy (10-1) When: Saturday, 1 p.m.; Nazareth Academy, LaGrange Park Seeds: Lake Zurich is the No. 4 seed in the top half of the Class 6A bracket: Nazareth Academy is the No. 1 seed Scouting Lake Zurich: T
 
 
You can also vote for the Athlete of the Month for October which features one of the best football players from each of our four zones.

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State finals in swimming, volleyball

This weekend also features the girls state swimming meet and the girls volleyball state tournament. We’ll have complete coverage of both including Fremd and Benet’s volleyball teams playing in the 4A volleyball finals at Illinois State University.

Girls volleyball

Girls volleyball: Fremd sweeps Libertyville, earns third trip to state
Nov 10, 2025 10:10 pm - Fremd coach Pete Gavin called a timeout after Libertyville finished a 17-9 run to tie the second set of Monday’s Class 4A DeKalb supersectional at 19-all. The Vikings, who won the first set 25-16, had jumped out to 10-2 lead and appeared to be on th
 
 

Girls volleyball

Girls volleyball: Benet sweeps New Trier, qualifies for state for fourth straight year
Nov 10, 2025 11:09 pm - Sophia Youssef entered the 2025 season never playing middle before. The 6-foot-1 Benet junior had only ever played setter, and never even thought about playing at middle heading into her first varsity season. But with a chance to send the Redwings to
 
 
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