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Published on December 2, 2025 8:29 am
Last Updated on December 2, 2025 8:29 am
Illinois High School Association
Football Playoffs
CLASS 1A
Championship
Game 31 — Lena-Winslow 58, Mt. Sterling Brown County 13
CLASS 2A
Championship
Game 31 — Wilmington 42, Maroa-Forsyth 6
CLASS 3A
Championship
Game 31 — Byron 56, Tolono Unity 50
CLASS 4A
Championship
Game 31 — Lombard Montini 47, Rochester 33
CLASS 5A
Championship
Game 31 — Wheaton St. Francis (10-3) vs. New Lenox Providence Catholic (10-3) at Normal (Hancock Stadium), Tue., Dec. 2, 3 p.m.
CLASS 6A
Championship
Game 31 — Oak Park Fenwick (10-3) vs. East St. Louis Sr. (10-3) at Normal (Hancock Stadium), Tue., Dec. 2, 6 p.m.
CLASS 7A
Championship
Game 31 — Chicago St. Rita (9-4) vs. Chicago Brother Rice (12-1) at DeKalb (Huskie Stadium), Wed., Dec. 3, 3 p.m.
CLASS 8A
Championship
Game 31 — Chicago (Mt. Carmel) (13-0) vs. Oswego (11-2) at DeKalb (Huskie Stadium), Wed., Dec. 3, 6 p.m.
 
 
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A look at athletic events taking place involving Polk County teams for the week of Dec. 2-6.
Tuesday, Dec. 2
Wrestling: Polk County Middle at Apple Valley Middle, 4:30 p.m.
Wrestling: Polk County at North Lincoln, 5:30 p.m.
Wrestling: Polk County vs. Trinity at North Lincoln, 6:30 p.m.
Wrestling: Polk County vs. Chase at North Lincoln, 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 3
Track and Field: Polk County at Polar Bear 1, G.M. Tennant Stadium, 4 p.m.
Girls Basketball: Apple Valley Middle at Polk County Middle, 4:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball: Apple Valley Middle at Polk County Middle, 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 4
Wrestling: Flat Rock Middle at Polk County Middle, 4:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball: Polk County Middle at Flat Rock Middle, 4:30 p.m.
Boys Basketball: Polk County Middle at Flat Rock Middle, 5:30 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 5
Wrestling: Polk County at Hilltopper Havoc at R-S Central, 3 p.m.
Boys Basketball: Polk County JV at East Rutherford JV, 4:30 p.m.
Girls Basketball: Polk County at East Rutherford, 6 p.m.
Boys Basketball: Polk County at East Rutherford, 8 p.m.
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Blackburn Rovers vs. Ipswich Town – Championship – December 2, 2025 – Match Guide, Data Analysis, Standings – Football  Sports Mole
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The Baltimore Ravens have myriad issues offensively, but any turnaround hinges on two-time MVP Lamar Jackson playing better down the stretch. Aaron M. Sprecher / Associated Press
OWINGS MILLS, Md. — It was supposed to represent a seamless continuation of last year, when the Baltimore Ravens had arguably the top offense in football. For three-plus quarters in their regular-season opener, the Ravens moved up and down the field against the Buffalo Bills.
They came away with points on seven of their first eight drives, scoring touchdowns on five of them. Lamar Jackson threw the ball with accuracy and confidence. Both Jackson and Derrick Henry were chewing up yards on the ground. Zay Flowers and DeAndre Hopkins were making big plays through the air.
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The Ravens racked up 40 points and 432 yards in a frustrating loss that was pinned almost entirely on the defense. Yet that offensive performance was the Ravens’ zenith, not a sign of things to come.
In 11 games since, they haven’t really come close to replicating that showing. In the 32-14 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Thanksgiving night, the offense looked broken. The Ravens turned the ball over five times, went 3-of-10 on third downs and possessed the ball for just over 21 minutes against a defense that was on pace to be one of the worst statistically in NFL history.
There have been other dispiriting performances this year for Baltimore, but Thursday had to be rock bottom for Jackson, coordinator Todd Monken and the rest of the offense. If it’s not, the Ravens won’t be in the AFC playoff mix for much longer — and some tough decisions will have to be made this offseason.
“It was not a precise offensive performance in any way,” Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Monday. “There was nothing precise about it. It was imprecise in every way. We all know that. We’re all not happy with it. We’re very disappointed by it, but you can’t live in it. You have to move on.”
Harbaugh said the players were in the building for a full day on Friday, and the coaches worked into the mini bye weekend. With the AFC North division lead on the line Sunday in a matchup with the also-struggling and 6-6 Pittsburgh Steelers, the Ravens are running out of time to fix an offense that is currently underachieving.
Baltimore has had good stretches offensively since the loss to Buffalo, but it hasn’t put together a full game or sustained momentum. In fact, its most complete performance over the last month-plus probably came in Week 8, when the Ravens beat the Chicago Bears 30-16 behind backup quarterback Tyler Huntley.
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There’s been no obvious signs of improvement, either. In fact, the offense’s last two outings against the New York Jets and Bengals may have been its worst all season.
“How frustrating is it?” Henry said last Thursday, repeating the question. “I think it’s self-explanatory. We need to be better. We all know that.”
The Ravens have myriad issues offensively, but any turnaround hinges on Jackson playing better. The two-time league MVP has gone three consecutive games without throwing or running for a touchdown. He’s also gone four straight games without completing at least 60 percent of his passes for the first time in his career. As a runner, he’s averaged just over 3.0 yards per carry since returning from a hamstring injury in Week 9, and he hasn’t had a run for more than 20 yards all year.
“I do think you’re going to have an off day sometimes,” Harbaugh said Monday. “That’s not something that you take lightly for sure. Listen, Lamar doesn’t take it lightly more than anybody. No player on this team takes it lightly. That’s what you do, you go back to work. You get in there, and you practice, and you study it, and you work together to be as precise as you can.”
The silver lining from Thursday’s game is that Jackson, who has battled hamstring, knee, ankle and toe injuries, looked more comfortable moving around, and now he’s had a few extra days off to get healthier. But everything else is a concern, from his accuracy to his decision-making to his ball security.
Asked after last week’s loss what he needed to do to be more consistent, Jackson said, “Just be me. Be Lamar.”
The Ravens hope it’s that simple, but there’s mounting evidence that it isn’t.
Left tackle Ronnie Stanley raised some eyebrows when he said the Ravens need to keep the run game going and “make sure that’s our identity.” That came after a game in which they ran it just 22 times — several were Jackson scrambles — and didn’t get the ball to Henry once in the second quarter, although he had five carries for 33 yards and a touchdown in the first quarter.
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Stanley isn’t wrong, and Harbaugh reiterated Stanley’s point Monday. The Ravens are always better when they establish and stick to the run game. It’s even more imperative when Jackson is struggling as a passer. There’s no doubt that Monken should have mixed in a few more runs Thursday, but the criticism was a little overblown.
The Ravens showed nice balance on their game-opening touchdown drive. On their second possession, they had the ball on their own 14 and Henry was held to no gain on first down. You’re not going to make a living running the ball on second- and third-and-long. The third drive started on their own 2, and Henry again got no yards on a first-down carry. You need to try and get the first down, and running the ball into a stacked box on second-and-long isn’t a great option.
There were opportunities to run on their first full drive of the second quarter, but it’s hard to gripe too much when that possession would have ended with a touchdown had Isaiah Likely not fumbled the ball as he was going in for the score. The Ravens were then in their two-minute offense for the rest of the second quarter.
To start the third, Henry got the ball twice, gained 5 total yards and the Ravens went three-and-out. Despite trailing by 12 points midway through the third quarter, Baltimore stuck with the run, and the result was a touchdown drive, culminating in an 18-yard scamper by Keaton Mitchell. Then, for much of the fourth quarter, the Ravens trailed by two scores and were in hurry-up offense.
So you’re talking about maybe one or two drives where you could question why they didn’t mix in a few runs. Notable, yes. But hardly the reason the Ravens lost that game.
• The talk all week will obviously be about how the winner of Sunday’s Ravens-Steelers game, along with the Week 18 rematch between the teams, will go a long way toward deciding the AFC North. With all due respect to the Bengals (4-8), who are still in the mix but probably need to win out, the game means even more because it certainly looks like there will be no wild-card spot available for the second-place team in the division.
You have two two-loss teams in the AFC, four four-loss teams and one five-loss team. Then, you have the six-loss Ravens, Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs. It certainly is possible that a team or two comes back to the pack, but it won’t help the Ravens’ cause in the case of a potential two-team wild-card tiebreaker that they’ve already lost to the Bills (8-4), Houston Texans (7-5) and Chiefs. While 10-7 might be good enough to win the AFC North, there’s no certainty that it will be good enough to get a wild-card spot.
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• The Ravens had two open 53-man spots that they didn’t fill when they put running back Justice Hill (neck) and defensive lineman Taven Bryan (knee) on injured reserve last week. One of those spots seemed likely to be taken by practice squad rookie inside linebacker Chandler Martin, who used his third and final practice squad elevation against the Bengals. Martin, however, sustained a season-ending knee injury on the opening kickoff, leaving the Ravens with no obvious internal additions to their 53-man roster.
With Nate Wiggins potentially missing some time, the Ravens could turn to practice squad cornerback Amani Oruwariye, who has only one elevation remaining. Otherwise, every other practice squad member has at least two free elevations remaining. The Ravens also could hold a spot for the return of outside linebacker Tavius Robinson, whose return from a foot fracture isn’t believed to be far off. Harbaugh said Monday there’s a “good chance” Robinson and defensive back Ar’Darius Washington return to practice this week. Harbaugh said that Hill, who has a disc issue in his neck, will miss at least three or four weeks.
• Rookie LaJohntay Wester has looked like a totally different returner since muffing a punt deep in Ravens territory in their Week 11 victory in Cleveland. He’s been passive and seems reluctant to field the ball in traffic, which is a complete departure from the aggressiveness he showed for much of the season. Against the Bengals, he didn’t come forward to field a Ryan Rehkow punt in the first quarter, and the ball bounced all the way inside the Ravens’ 14.
As it gets windier and colder and the fields get chewed up, it makes sense to be a bit more conservative with when to field punts. However, with the way the offense is struggling, the Ravens can’t afford to give away valuable yards and field position. If Wester has lost confidence, Baltimore needs him to regain it — and fast.
• Harbaugh’s analysis of rookie third-round offensive lineman Emery Jones Jr.’s first NFL snaps against the Bengals was that he played hard and showed his athleticism, but he also played “like a rookie in a lot of ways.” He was noncommittal about whether Jones would continue to rotate at left guard with Andrew Vorhees going forward, but he acknowledged that Jones simply needs to play game snaps to make the necessary improvements.
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Jeff Zrebiec is a senior writer for The Athletic covering the Baltimore Ravens. Before joining The Athletic in 2018, he spent the previous 18 years as a writer for The Baltimore Sun, 13 of them on the Orioles or Ravens beats. The New Jersey native is a graduate of Loyola University in Baltimore. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jeffzrebiec

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Dec 2, 2025
Fort Frye’s Ella Dowler (32) goes up for a layup against Marietta during Monday’s game at Sutton Gym. (Photo by Mike Morrison)
Fort Frye freshman Raelann Morgenstern came off the bench to score a team-high 16 points Monday night to lead the Cadets to a 48-30 win over the Marietta Tigers at Sutton Gymnasium.
The visitors actually trailed Marietta by a point at halftime before out-pointing the Tigers 18-4 in the third quarter and then pulling away to their second victory in as many tries in the young 2025-2026 season.
The Cadets threatened to run away from the Tigers in the opening half as they forced Marietta into 13 turnovers but their inability to hit shots from the perimeter allowed Marietta to stay in the game.
Fort Frye made just 1-of-11 shots from behind the arc in the opening half a number that would improve dramatically in the second.
First-year Cadet head coach Cathy Borich felt like patience on her team’s part was the difference in the shots falling in the second half.
Fort Frye’s Elle Casto, right, defends Marietta’s Braxtyn Kroft in the paint during Monday’s game at Sutton Gym. (Photo by Mike Morrison)
“In the second half we did a much better job against their two-three zone moving the ball inside and out,” said Borich, whose team made 4-of-10 shots from behind the arc in the final half. “I think in the second half our three-point shots weren’t rushed as much and they were much better shots.”
The Cadets ended the first eight minutes with four points in a row by Morgenstern to take an 11-7 lead and then increased it to nine thanks to a triple by Morgenstern and a two-pointer by junior Ava Huffman early in the second quarter.
Those would be the only two buckets of the second quarter for the Cadets as Marietta ended the half with a 10-0 run to take a 17-16 lead into the break.
Tiger senior Hayleigh Chidester scored six of those ten points while sophomore Maya Diki added the other four to send the Tigers to the intermission with momentum clearly on their side.
That momentum wouldn’t last long at all as the Cadets came out like a different team in the second half.
Huffman’s two-pointer opened the quarter for the Cadets before Tiger senior Lauren Elliott knocked down a triple to put Marietta back on top.
That lead would be short lived as the Cadets got two-pointers from Khoen Courson, Huffman and Morgenstern and a triple by junior Ella Dowler to take an eight-point lead.
A Chidester free throw briefly stopped the bleeding for the Tigers but Morgenstern and Courson would ring the bell from long distance as Fort Frye out-scored Marietta 18-4 in the third period to turn the one-point deficit into a 13-point lead.
First-year Tiger head coach Ally Shane has seen her team struggle out of the gate in the second half more than once in the early part of the season.
“I told our kids whoever wins the first three minutes of the third quarter is going to win the ball game,” said Shane. “We let Athens go on a big run the other day in that loss and did so again tonight….The third quarter is crucial and we’ve got to figure out how to come out stronger or it’s going to be a long season for us.”
Tiger freshman Blaire Reed opened up the final quarter with a two-pointer but Fort Frye continued to add on as they pushed their lead to 20 at one time before settling for the 18-point win.
With four of the five starters returning this year from last years team that made it all the way to the final four the Cadets were already a sound basketball team but the spark that Morgenstern has provided off the bench over the first two games adds a whole new dimension to their team.
“She (Morgernstern) does a really nice job for us,” said Borich. “She is the first one off of the bench and it’s nice having someone that can add that spark and energy and her on the ball defense is very good too.”
In addition to her 16 points, Morgenstern also came up with five steals and dished out three assists.
Huffman finished the game with 11 points while Dowler added nine for The Fort.
While the Cadet offense was kind of off and on the defense was solid all game long.
“I thought our defense was pretty good all night,” said Borich. “We were able to force all of those turnovers early on and then were able to hold them to the four points in the third quarter which was big.”
Keeping the ball out of the hands of Chidester was another big key for the Cadets
Chidester took just nine shots from the floor but made the most of them as she finished with a team-high 16 points.
The Cadets improved to 2-0 with the win after beating Federal Hocking on Saturday and will now pay a visit to Belpre on Wednesday.
The Tigers slipped to 2-2 with the loss with a rivalry match upcoming on Thursday back at Sutton Gym when the Warren Warriors come calling.
“That’s an important league game for us so we have got to get back to work and come out ready to play,” said Shane. “We’ve got several games in a row here at home and we want to get back on track.”
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