The Eureka baseball team's bid for its first state title ended with a 6-5 loss to Sacred Heart-Griffin in a Class 2A semifinal on Friday afternoon at Illinois Field.

Normal Community baseball advanced to the Class 4A sectional finals in the only game of the day behind a shutout from Gavin Swartz

Dunlap is set to hire longtime basketball coach and IBCA Hall of Fame inductee Kevin Metzger as its new girls basketball head coach.

Washington moved on to the Class 3A sweet 16 in baseball behind a strong outing from ace Carter Prina while Dunlap fell to Morris.

PND girls soccer is state-bound again and Metamora softball set up a sectional title rematch against Pontiac, who brought Washington's season to an end in a nail-biter.

Vote for this week's CSM Spring Athletes of the Week, which feature playoff standouts from boys track and field, baseball, softball, girls soccer and boys tennis.

Dunlap's Samantha Yeh and Peoria Notre Dame's Thomas Mickels won CSM Spring Athletes of the Week, get to know them and about their big performances here!

Eureka baseball ended a 12-year drought without a state berth with a shutout victory over Wilmington in the Class 2A Geneseo Super-Sectional

Brimfield/Elmwood fell on an extra-innings walk-off to Beecher in a Class 2A super-sectional, but has plenty of reason for optimism going forward.

Eureka rode another great pitching performance and used clutch hitting to clinch a berth in Monday's Class 2A super-sectional against Wilmington.

Jenna Flessner dominated in Washington's Class 3A regional title victory, throwing a perfect game to lead the 31-2 Panthers into a loaded sectional.

Brimfield/Elmwood softball and PND girls soccer both won sectional titles, Morton boys track led the way in state track prelims and several Mid-Illini softball teams won regionals

Thursday marked the start of boys track and field and tennis, where Bloomington Central Catholic shined the most on the track and Dunlap and Metamora led the way on the courts.

IVC and Eureka won sectional semifinals in front of a packed house at the Ghost Yard, setting up a marquee 2A sectional title game on Saturday.

CSM previews the Central Illinois athletes, teams, events and relays competing at the 2025 IHSA State Meet in boys track and field.

Eureka, IVC and Heyworth won close sectional semi baseball games, a no-hitter and a balk-off headlined regional baseball games and PND and Morton advanced to the sectional title in girls soccer.

Fueled by sibling competitiveness and support East Peoria'a RJ and Addison Duncheon and Jackson and Gracie Ahrens are all having big seasons on the diamond.

Brimfield/Elmwood beat Canton 2-0 in a 9-inning sectional semifinal thriller behind heroics from Reese Legaspi and Sawyer Drury to keep its state hopes alive.

Brimfield/Elmwood and East Peoria won playoff games in 9-inning thrillers and four other area squads advanced in the postseason.

Vote for this week's expanded group of nominees for CSM Spring Athletes of the Week, featuring area stars in track and field, softball, baseball, girls soccer and tennis!