Wheaton North senior shortstop and Brown commit Reagan Crosthwaite, who set single-season and career records for homers and RBIs and led the Falcons to their second straight sectional final, is the 2025 Suburban Life Softball Player of the Year.

Here is the 2025 Suburban Life All-Area softball team.

Wheaton North senior shortstop Reagan Crosthwaite, who led the Falcons to their second consecutive sectional final this season, was among those named Class 4A First Team All-State by the Illinois Coaches Association in voting released this week.

Lockport led by three entering the sixth inning before Oak Park-River Forest managed to come from behind to get the win. The Porters overcame a lot of adversity to even reach the state tournament and have reason to be optimistic about the future.

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Oak Park River Forest defeated Lockport 6-5 to win third place in the IHSA Class 4A softball third-place game on Saturday, June 14, 2025 at the Louisville Slugger Sports Complex in Peoria.

The magical postseason run by the Montini softball team came to a heartbreaking end Monday at the Class 3A Benedictine Supersectional at the hands of St. Laurence.

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Montini lost to St. Laurence softball in a Class 3A Benedictine Supersectional on Monday, June 9, 2025 in Lisle.

Montini stampeded its way to a Class 3A sectional softball championship on its home field with a 13-2 run-rule victory over St. Francis in five innings on Friday evening in Lombard.

St. Laurence scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to rally past Nazareth softball in the sectional final, and Downers Grove North dropped a sectional final game to Marist in Friday's roundup.