Here is the Herald-News area Girls Track & Field Honor Roll, comprised of athletes who advanced to the state meet.

Morris graduate Jack Wheeler is putting up strong numbers in the Texas Rangers organization competing in the Arizona Comple League, hoping an single A invite is soon on the way.

A number of Joliet area baseball players earned all-conference honors for their play this season.

Class 4A state softball champion Lincoln-Way West highlights the list of area all-conference selections.

Davion Thompson, a consensus top 25 recruit in the country, made his college commitment to Arkansas on Wednesday evening.

The Illinois Coaches Association announced its 2026 ICA All-State teams this week, with 11 Herald-News area softball standouts selected for first-team honors and dozens more for other ICA accolades.

Sixteen girls basketball teams from across the area gathered for the Braidwood Shootout hosted by Reed-Custer on Tuesday, playing four games apiece to gain some valuable in-game experience this summer.

Minooka deepest playoff run since 2012 ends in a heartbreaking 4-2 loss to Naperville Central in the Class 4A Normal Super-sectional on Monday evening.

Minooka's deepest playoff run since 2012 ended on Monday with a 4-2 loss to Naperville Central in the Normal Community Supersectional.

Outside of Lincoln-Way West softball's historic state championship, it was a busy weekend around the Herald-News coverage area. Here are a few of the other top stories in our Weekend Rewind.

Seneca seniors Lexie Buis, Camryn Stecken and Tessa Krull led the Fighting Irish softball team to a runner-up finish at the IHSA Class 2A State Finals at Peoria's Louisville Slugger Sports Complex.

Any state championship is special, but the one Lincoln-Way West brought home was made all the more spectacular by everything it took to earn it.

For the first time in school history, Lincoln-Way West has won a team state championship as the softball team downed Mundelein 6-1 in the Class 4A title game on Saturday.

The Seneca softball team battled to the very end but came up just short in a 3-1 loss to Carterville in Saturday's IHSA Class 2A championship on OSF Healthcare Field inside the Louisville Slugger Sports Complex in Peoria. The Fighting Irish ended the season 39-3.

It has become very difficult to contain the Minooka baseball team's offense as Edwardsville found out on Saturday as the Indians pounded out 14 hits in a 15-1 win to claim the Class 4A Normal Community Sectional title.

Lincoln-Way Central saw its season come to an end with a 7-1 loss to Sandburg in the title game of the Class 4A Lincoln-Way Central Sectional.

Marquette pulled away from Wilmington for an 11-2 victory in the IHSA Class 2A Herscher Sectional championship on Saturday, June 6, 2026.

Lincoln-Way West takes on Mundelein in the 4A state softball title game Saturday, June 6, 2026, in Peoria. Lincoln-Way West took the title 6-1.