Providence Preps

See if your favorite player made the 2025 Herald-News All-Area Baseball Team, featuring the best of the best across the Will/Grundy County area.

History tends to repeat itself in regards to the IHSA Football Playoffs, but the new enrollment numbers could lead to a bracket that looks a lot different in the next postseason chase. Here is Steve Soucie's 2025 IHSA football preseason playoff projection.

Plainfield East had five selections to the Southwest Prairie Conference squad. See who else made their respective All-Conference team here.

Providence softball is headed to state thanks to a thrilling 5-4 win in nine innings in the Class 3A Illinois Wesleyan Supersectional against Pontiac Monday, June 9, 2025.

Providence started quickly in Monday night's Class 4A Crestwood Supersectional, but that momentum couldn't be maintained by the defending state champions in a 8-5 loss to Brother Rice.

Providence had a frustrating session with its pitching machine in preparation for Saturday's sectional title matchup with Lincoln-Way East. But the intent of that session certainly hit its mark as the Celtics rolled to a 12-0 victory Saturday.

Lincoln-Way East baseball limited Lincoln-Way Central to one hit in a 3-0 win, while Providence got a walk-off home run from Enzo Infelice in the semifinal round of the Lincoln-Way West Class 4A Sectional.

A day after turning 15, Macie Robbins struck out nine batters to lead Providence Catholic to a 2-1 win over Marian Catholic in the regional title game.

Providence Catholic fell behind by two early on, but took advantage of a series of Joliet Catholic errors to come back and get the win.

Minooka is playing strong against quality opposition, Lincoln-Way East and Providence Catholic are looking for bounce backs, and more in this week's Herald-News Baseball Notebook.

A preseason look at the 2025 prep baseball season across the Herald-News coverage area.

D-I college commits, MLB Draft prospects and more make up the Herald-News' 5 to Watch for baseball in 2025.

Here is a list of CCL/ESCC football players who have committed to colleges at various levels and can sign their financial aid agreement or letters of intent starting on Wednesday.

Meet Friday Night Drive’s 2024 All-CCL/ESCC team, which was selected by the Friday Night Drive staff with input from coaches across the 24-team league.

Here is a list of CCL/ESCC football players who have committed to colleges at various levels and can sign their financial aid agreements starting Wednesday.

Here is Steve Soucie's Herald-News prep football Class 5A championship game preview, featuring Joliet Catholic and Nazareth.

As the 2024-2025 boys basketball season gets set to tip off, here are team-by-team previews of teams from around the Herald-News coverage area.

Here is Steve Soucie's Herald-News prep football preview for the semifinal round of the IHSA playoffs, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

Molly Parker scored 26 points, Taylor Healy added 13 and the Celtics absolutely dominated the Joliet Central Steelmen to pick up their first victory of the year, 64-38 in the WJOL Tournament.

The Herald-News prep football preview for the quarterfinal round of the IHSA playoffs, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

The Herald-News prep football preview for the second round of the IHSA playoffs, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

The CCL/ESCC announced its 2024 season awards for each of the six divisions. Here are all the coach and individual awards, including all-conference honors.

The Herald-News prep football preview for the opening round of the IHSA playoffs, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

Here are the first-round matchups for each CCL/ESCC team. Dates and times will be updated when confirmed.

With one week left to earn playoff qualification, there are plenty of CCL/ESCC teams battling for a spot. Here are where teams stand before Week 9 kicks off.

The Herald-News prep football preview for Week 9 of the 2024 season, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

There’s two weeks left to earn playoff qualification and there are plenty of CCL/ESCC teams battling for a spot. Here are where teams stand before Week 8 kicks off.

The Herald-News Prep Football Capsules for Week 8 of the 2024 season, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

The Herald-News Prep Football Capsules for Week 7 of the 2024 season, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

The Herald-News Prep Football Capsules for Week 6, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

Facing a four-point deficit with 38 seconds to play, Providence quarterback AJ Rayford led his offense the length of the field and connected with Jayden Mikulski on a 30-yard game-winning score on the final play for a stunning 27-25 win at St. Francis.

The Herald-News Prep Football Capsules for Week 5, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

Ellie Blotnik had eight kills and eight digs to lead Joliet Catholic Academy to a 25-21, 25-22 win over Providence Catholic

The Herald-News Prep Football Capsules for Week 4, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

The Herald-News Prep Football Capsules for Week 3, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

33 new teams entered Steve Soucie's playoff projection following Week 2. See if and where your team fits in the projected 256-team field.

Providence faces Lincoln-Way Central in Week 2 of the 2024 IHSA football season. Friday Night Drive correspondent Tim Cronin will have live updates, scores and news from the game

The Herald-News prep football capsules for Week 2, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

Shane Diericx caught a fourth-down pass from 6 yards out as time expired and managed to fend off a hard hit near the goal line to reach the end zone for the winning touchdown, giving Wheaton North a wild 23-22 win over visiting Providence.

The Herald-News Prep Football Capsules for Week 1, featuring key showdowns across the greater Joliet area.

There's still a lot of consistency in the year-to-year playoff field's qualifiers. But there's also been some recently injected variability into the equation which makes trying to projected the 2024 field even more chaotic.

It wasn’t easy with so much great talent to choose from, but here is the stacked 2024 Herald-News All-Area Baseball Team.

Providence Catholic faced Conant in the 2024 Class 4A state baseball championship game at Duly Health and Care Field in Joliet on Saturday, June 8, 2024.

Providence had an imposing task on Friday afternoon as it was tasked with trying to upend two-time defending state champion Edwardsville in the Class 4A semifinals. But the Celtics did what they always seem to getting a complete roster contribution in a 2-1 win.

After falling behind by two runs, the Celtics put seven on the board in the fourth to down the Warriors and advance to the super sectional round on Monday.

Reagan Duncan scored on an error in the top of the seventh to break the tie.

Taking a look at the girls soccer programs around the Herald-News coverage area heading into the season.

Here is a list of CCL/ESCC football players who have committed to colleges at various levels and can sign their letters of intent starting on Wednesday. That is the first day of the regular signing period for NCAA football scholarship schools (Divisions I and II).

The IHSA state competitive dance finals took place in Bloomington on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024.

The CCL/ESCC conference schedules for the next two seasons are set after IHSA member schools voted down a proposal to move to a district model. The schedules include the megaconference’s new divisions and crossover games.