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Rochelle's Antonio Ruiz, Player of the Year, is among the boys soccer players named to the Interstate 8 All-Conference team for the 2025 season. Here are the 2025 Interstate 8 All-Conference boys soccer award winners.
With the winter sports season right around the corner, the Coal City community took a little more time Wednesday to celebrate the boys soccer team's first-ever run to state.
The Coal City boys soccer team beat Chicago Academy 6-1 Friday to earn a third-place finish at the IHSA Class 1A state finals.
The Mendota and Coal City boys soccer teams met Thursday in an IHSA Class 1A state semifinal game at Hoffman Estates High School.

Coal City secured a 1-0 win over Williamsville in the Class 1A Maroa-Forsyth Super-Sectional on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, to advance to state for the first time in program history.

With a 1-0 win over Williamsville in Monday's Maroa-Forsyth Super-Sectional, Coal City kept the longest postseason run in program history alive and advanced to state for the first time.

Coal City defeated Herscher 7-2 as Manteno defeated Chicago Christian 1-0 in the IHSA Class 1A Coal City Sectional semifinals on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. The Coalers and Panthers will meet in Saturday's championship game.

Coal City and Manteno will meet in Saturday's IHSA Class 1A Coal City Sectional championship after the Coalers downed Herscher 7-2 in Tuesday's semifinals and Manteno beat Chicago Christian 1-0.

Manteno defeated Reed-Custer 3-0 in the IHSA Class 1A Momence Regional championship to secure back-to-back regional titles for the first time in school history on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025.

Hosting the 3A Minooka Regional championship, the host Indians came to play and hoist the regional plaque, putting an end to one of Bradley-Bourbonnais' winningest seasons in recent memory.

Lockport and Lincoln-Way Central are having banner years, and more in the Herald-News Boys Soccer Notebook.

Coal City was on the right side of a one-goal thriller with Herscher on the Coalers' home turf Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025.

Coal City got a late goal from sophomore Carter Hollis to pick up a 2-1 win over Herscher in Illinois Central Eight Conference play, the latest of a series of close battles between top ICE teams.

Ottawa scored two goals in the second half Saturday in a 3-1 win over Morris.

Minooka hosted Romeoville in boys soccer for its Senior Night on Tuesday, picking up a 4-0 win.

Andrew Calderon scored two goals in the first half, and unbeaten Minooka continued its turnaround season with a 3-0 win on Tuesday at Bolingbrook.
Here's our picks for five boys soccer players across the Herald-News coverage area to keep an eye on during the 2025 season.
The Herald News breaks down each area soccer team, the top players and more.
