Wheaton North won the fourth state football championship in school history and first since 1986 Saturday, beating St. Rita 35-6 in the Class 7A title game at Huskie Stadium in DeKalb.

Here’s a look at Saturday’s Class 7A football state championship game between Wheaton North and St. Rita.

Wheaton North had handed Brother Rice a 45-27 defeat in the Class 7A semifinals to advance to the program’s first state championship game since 1986.

Here’s a look at the Class 3A football semifinal between IC Catholic and Byron, as well as the Class 7A game between Wheaton North and Brother Rice.

Ty Schultz, a senior running back, scored all four Lockport touchdowns as the Porters punched their ticket to the state semifinals with a hard-fought 28-22 victory over Glenbard North in a Class 8A football quarterfinal playoff Saturday afternoon in Carol Stream.Lockport (11-1) will play Loyola, a 3-0 winner over Lincoln-Way East, this coming Saturday in the state semifinals in Wilmette.The Panthers (8-4), who battled until the final minute, advanced to their first quarterfinal since finishing second in the state in Class 8A in 2012.

The bend but don’t break philosophy has served the Falcons well as the least-scored upon defense left in the Class 7A bracket. And it enabled them to grind out a tough 10-3 win Friday at Willowbrook in a Class 7A quarterfinal, sending Wheaton North into the semifinals for the first time since 2002. It’s the ninth time in 12 games that Wheaton North (11-1), which advances to face the Mount Carmel-Brother Rice winner, has allowed one score or fewer to an opponent. The Falcons moved on despite being out-gained 221-161.

Here’s a look at the football matchups in the Fox area for the quarterfinal round, including Jacobs trying to keep its surprise postseason run alive and Cary-Grove putting its 11-0 record on the line.

Underdogs? Jacobs senior running back Ben Ludlum is having none of that.

His hands were sweaty and his nerves kept him from looking up at the football that he just booted, but Glenbard North junior kicker Juan Ramirez knew his 43-yard field goal in the final minute of Saturday night’s game was good once he heard the home crowd erupt.

On one side of the field, pandemonium and euphoria flowed just seconds after Denny Furlong’s game-winning touchdown run off the right edge to stun Batavia 16-14 on an untimed down on the last play of a Class 7A second-round playoff game. On the opposite side sat a stunned, shocked Batavia team that was simply trying to process and rationalize the final minute of a drive that will likely forever leave them asking “what if”?