Illinois High School Football Quarterfinals

Nationally-ranked Mount Carmel taking on Maine South on Saturday is the marquee match-up in the quarterfinal round of the IHSA 8A football playoffs. The game at Gately Stadium will feature two of the top junior quarterbacks in Illinois.

Mount Carmel, which is ranked #22 in the latest USA Today Super 25, is led by John Lynch while Charlie Goro leads Maine South. It will be a contrast in styles with Lynch being a running quarterback with 1,045 yards and 9 rushing TDs this year and Goro fires away, completing 76-percent of his passes for 2,500 yards and 24 touchdowns.

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Below you'll find all of the quarterfinal match-ups...

Friday, November 9, 2007

CLASS 8A
#4 Brother Rice at #16 Homewood-Flossmoor, 7
#2 Naperville North at #6 Lincoln-Way East, 7

CLASS 6A
#4 Oak Forest at #1 Richards, 7

CLASS 4A
#3 Harvard at #2 Coal City, 7

SATURDAY, November 10, 2007

CLASS 8A
#5 Maine South at #1 Mt. Carmel, 1 at Gately
#2 Fremd at #14 Glenbard North, 7

CLASS 7A
#4 Lake Zurich at #1 Rockford Boylan, 1
#1 Geneva at #3 East St. Louis, 3
#7 Carmel at #6 De La Salle, 6
#1 Wheaton South at #2 Morgan Park, 7:45 at Gately

CLASS 6A
#1 Normal at #13 Providence, 1
#2 Prairie Ridge at #6 Lemont, 6
#3 Rock Island at #2 Joliet Catholic, 6

CLASS 5A
#1 Metamora at #2 Pontiac, 1
#8 Belvidere at #5 Morris, 6
#14 Nazareth at #7 Marian Central Catholic, 6
#8 Charleston at #3 Marion, 6

CLASS 4A
#4 Chicago Christian at #1 Driscoll, 1
#1 Bloomington Central Catholic at #3 Decatur St. Teresa, 1
#2 Mt. Carmel (Ill.) at #4 Mascoutah, 1

CLASS 3A
#5 Plano at #1 St. Joseph-Ogden, 1
#3 Columbia at #2 Carterville, 1
#5 Marshall (Ill.) at #1 Greenville, 2
#7 Amboy-LaMoille (Coop) at #3 Aurora Christian, 5

CLASS 2A
#1 Flanagan-Woodland (Coop) at #4 Orion, 1
#3 Morrison at #2 Dakota, 1
#2 Red Bud at #1 Casey-Westfield, 2
#2 Westville at #1 Maroa-Forsyth, 7

CLASS 1A
#1 Galena at #6 Cambridge, 1
#3 Greenfield-Northwestern (Coop) at #7 Arcola, 1:30
#4 Tuscola at #1 Mt. Olive, 2
#5 Cuba North Fulton (Coop) at #3 Toulon Stark County, 6