7A football: Glenbard West edges Mount Carmel 7-0 in battle of titans
Special teams tend to play an enormous role in battles like the one that took place in Glen Ellyn on Saturday afternoon, and they put Mount Carmel in position to...
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Prep football: Batavia’s Niemiec, Albanese stymie Simeon in 7A second round
A Friday rush-hour drive from the far West Suburbs to Chicago's South Side was Batavia's reward for earning the No. 4 seed in the Class 7A playoffs. DeKalb is closer,...
Helfgot’s football blog: Picking the 7A second-round matchups
Usually, I have a decent feel for these games. I'm way off on occasion (see: Evanston over South Elgin), but I usually have an opinion with some semblance of a...
Mike Helfgot’s football blog: Picking the second-round winners in Class 8A
The lower seed (the one with the higher number) won three of the 16 first-round Class 7A games, and if you go by the Sometimes-Weekly Picks Blog, none were upsets....
Prep football: Mike Helfgot’s five second-round games to watch
No. 12 Mount Carmel at No. 2 Glenbard West When: 1 p.m. Saturday. Records: Mount Carmel 8-2, Glenbard West 10-0. On the offensive: Both offenses are built to run, but...
Prep football: Mike Helfgot’s four downs for the second round
Legends square off Saturday night's Class 3A second-round game between Bishop McNamara and Sterling Newman will mark the second time an Illinois high school football game will have a 300-win...
Prep football: Mike Helfgot’s Week 11 Top 20
1. Loyola 10-0 (1) Defeated West Aurora 31-0. Next: Class 8A playoffs vs. Stevenson. 2. Glenbard West 10-0 (2) Defeated Moline 49-10. Next: Class 7A playoffs vs. Mount Carmel. 3....
Prep football bits: Mount Carmel steady as always in big win
The beauty of running the option is that if executed properly, a play should succeed regardless of how the opposition defends it. Mount Carmel has 11 state championships running the...
Local Roundup: Mount Carmel eases past Glenbard North in playoff opener
It was the marquee game of the first round, regardless of class, at least on paper anyway. But on the Gately Stadium turf, Mount Carmel did what Mount Carmel so...
Prep football: Mount Carmel follows familiar formula, knocks off Glenbard North
It was the marquee game of the first round, regardless of class, at least on paper anyway. Yet on the Gately Stadium turf, Mount Carmel did what Mount Carmel so...