Girls Flag Football

Cadet compiled 2,317 all-purpose yards and 38 touchdowns in the regular season to go with seven touchdowns in three playoff games.

Fremd defeated previously unbeaten Guilford 24-12 Saturday in Villa Park to win the first IHSA girls flag football championship. "They’re just studs.”

Romeoville's flag football team came up just short of advancing to the sectional finals in their first year of existence, but the future is exceptionally bright.

Jacobs' first flag football season came to an end Tuesday with a 32-6 loss to top-seeded Guilford in a Harvard Sectional semifinal. In the IHSA's inaugural season, the Golden Eagles went 14-3 and won a regional championship.

Starting at its own 20, Antioch scored with two seconds left in the game, as freshman quarterback Tanner Ludwig threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to Evelyn Baronello in the end zone, lifting the Sequoits to an 18-12 win over the host Warriors.

Olivia Fillipp threw three touchdowns Wednesday night to lead Jacobs past Grant, 20-0, to the regional championship game. Plus more girls volleyball and boys soccer scores.

Neveaha Simms hadn’t played a sport in her first three years at Joliet West. That changed this year when she joined the first-year flag football program. On Wednesday she ran for three touchdowns and caught a TD pass in Joliet West's 35-12 win over Joliet Central.

Richmond-Burton's Alex Hopp surpassed 2,000 career assists as the Rockets went 4-1 to win their own tournament Saturday. Marengo volleyball won the Yorkville Christian Tournament, Huntley girls tennis placed first at the Larkin Invite, plus more in the Northwest Herald roundup.

Romeoville moved above .500 once again on Monday while the Tigers are 4-2 after a rough opening game.

The Romeoville Spartans jumped out to a 21-0 halftime lead, while the defense had two interceptions and a sack in Monday's flag football win at Joliet Central.

Here is the schedule of upcoming games and matches for the week of Sept. 2 in the Kane County coverage area.

Flag football was in full swing Thursday night. Yorkville High School hosted Joliet West for the Foxes second game in two days and the Tigers’ first. The experience showed as the Foxes raced out to an early lead and never looked back en route to a 25-0 victory.

Joliet Central played its inaugural girls flag football game and lost a 38-12 decision to Bradley-Bourbonnais on Thursday evening.

Here is the schedule of upcoming games and matches for the week of Aug. 26 in the Kane County Chronicle coverage area.

Over 60 girls showed up for the first day of a two day tryouts for the Joliet West girls flag football on Monday.

Joliet West hosted its first day of girls flag football tryouts on Monday in the sport's first year of being sanctioned.