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ESPNChicago.com's high school football reporters hand out their "Best of 2011" awards. BEST GAME Scott Powers: Joliet Catholic 32, Carmel 31 in Week 1 -- I nearly repeated my choice of last year -- Lake Zurich-Stevenson -- but I couldn't go ag...

Here are five thoughts from the high school football weekend: 1. Catholic League earns the regular-season crown: The Catholic League Blue has looked like the strongest area conference during the regular season. All five teams are headed to the pla...

Here are five thoughts from the high school football weekend: 1. Conference showdowns: The next two weeks should be full of drama in a number of conferences. The Catholic League Blue again will come down to Loyola, Mount Carmel and St. Rita. Four...

Beginning today and continuing throughout the high school football season, I'll bring you five thoughts from the weekend that was. 1. Best game of the season: It's likely there won't be a better game this season than Joliet Catholic's 32-31 win ov...

NILES, Ill. -- What Notre Dame expected from Quinton Chievous and Rodney Pryor wasn't the same as what their first high schools experienced. Chievous and Pryor transferred to Notre Dame, a private Catholic school, after initially attending public ...

One of the best stories in Illinois high school football came out of Class 5A last season when No. 12 seed Montini snuck into the playoffs and ended up winning the whole thing by upsetting Joliet Catholic with a 2-point conversion in the state champi...

Joliet Catholic junior running back Malin Jones, who had offers from Illinois and Iowa, ended his recruitment early and verbally committed to Northwestern Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald. "There are some other schools that didn't know he would commi...

Joliet Catholic junior running back Malin Jones, who had offers from Illinois and Iowa, ended his recruitment early and verbally committed to Northwestern Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald. "There are some other schools that didn't know he would commi...

No. 15 Montini (0-0) at No. 5 Joliet Catholic (0-0) on Friday The story: This is the perfect game to open the 2010 high school football season. These two teams met in the Class 5A state championship in November with Montini edging the Hilltoppers 2...

NU football gets commitment from Louisiana prep QB Zack Oliver.

Scott Powers breaks down the Class 6A high school football pairings.