Here is a look at the opening-round playoff matchups awaiting McHenry County area teams this weekend.

Enrollment changes lead to the 4A draw looking a bit different than it has in the past few years. Steve Soucie breaks down the opening round of the 2025 IHSA Class 4A Playoffs.

Here are the 2025 IHSA football playoff pairings for McHenry County area teams. Dates and times will be updated.

David Randecker became Woodstock North's all-time leading rushing as the Thunder cruised to a 49-0 Kishwaukee River Conference win over rival Woodstock on Friday night.

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Woodstock faces Woodstock North in a Kishwaukee River Conference football game on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, at Woodstock North High School.

Here are previews and picks for all of the Week 9 games around the McHenry County area.

There is only one week left to earn a spot in the playoffs, and there are plenty of McHenry County area football teams still battling to get in. Here is where teams stand heading into Week 9.

Dundee-Crown's home game against Prairie Ridge on Friday was suspended before resuming Saturday. Police later confirmed that gunfire occurred in the area. That, plus info on last week's KRC game between Johnsburg and Woodstock in the McHenry County football notebook.

Junior Duke Mays ran for two scores and helped whittle time off the clock to help Johnsburg survive in a nail-biting, playoff-like atmosphere in the Skyhawks' 24-21 Kishwaukee River Conference win over Woodstock. The victory locked up a playoff spot for Johnsburg.