Although Zion-Benton had only played one of the five other teams entering Saturday afternoon's Northside Invitational, the Zee-Bees walked away with an 5-0 record and the tournament title.
11/16/2012, 10:25pm CST, By Mike Clark mclark@suntimes.com
Darnell Cockrell caught a 30-yard touchdown pass and returned a punt 76 yards for a score to spark Simeon to a 35-14 win over Morgan in the Public League final on Friday.
11/07/2012, 10:00pm CST, By Mike Clark mclark@suntimes.com
Last week wasn't an easy one for defending state champions. The winners of three of the four biggest classes were in action in the second round of the playoffs. Two barely survived and one suffered a heartbreaking defeat.