Cary-Grove faces Geneva in the semifinals of the 2024 Class 6A IHSA football playoffs. Friday Night Drive editor Alex Kantecki will have live updates, scores and news from the game

Zoe Nanos scored 16 points to lead Prairie Ridge to a win at Burlington Central's Mark Einwich Kick-Off Tournament, plus more scores in Friday's Northwest Herald roundup.

Marian Central senior Kaitlyn Remke returned to the state tournament for a third time and helped the Hurricanes take fifth as a team. Remke was named the Northwest Herald’s 2024 Girls Tennis Player of the Year.

Meet the 2024 Northwest Herald All-Area girls tennis team.

Hampshire hosted Geneva in girls varsity basketball on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024.

Kent State commit Anna Campanelli scored a career-high 32 points to lead Huntley to a 53-35 win over Boylan Catholic in the Dundee-Crown tournament.

After sitting for the majority of the first half due to foul troubles, Peri Sweeney erupted for 16 second-half points, including five 3-pointers, to help Geneva to their first win of the season with a 64-52 victory over Hampshire.

Huntley faces Boylan in a Dundee-Crown Girls Basketball Tournament game on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, at Dundee-Crown High School in Carpentersville.

Here is the All-Fox Valley Conference girls volleyball team for the 2024 season, as selected by coaches.

St. Charles North girls basketball face Prairie Ridge in tournament play at Burlington Central on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024.

Cary-Grove senior defensive lineman Jake Cody has flourished as a first-year starter, and he showed up big in the Trojans' Class 6A quarterfinal win over Belvidere North.

Burlington Central's Tyler Samaan has only been golfing three years. This year, the confident Rockets junior won the Fox Valley Conference title with a 4-under-par 68 and led his team to its best state finish ever. Samaan is the 2024 Northwest Herald Boys Golfer of the Year.

Meet the 2024 Northwest Herald All-Area boys golf team.

Cary-Grove beat Rockford Lutheran and Marian Central outlasted Johnsburg to reach the championship game of the Johnsburg Feast Mode Tournament. And more in Thursday's Northwest Herald sports roundup.

Top-seeded Cary-Grove looks to advance to its second consecutive state championship game when it visits No. 3 Geneva at 1 p.m. Saturday in a Class 6A semifinal football game.