PHOTOS; Loyola Academy 26, Lincoln-Way East 15 IHSA Class 8A Championship
Lincoln-Way East put its 13-0 record on the line in the Illinois High School Association Class 8A state championship Nov. 25 in Normal, dropping the finale to Loyola Academy 26-15 to finish second.Â
Loyola Academy 26, Lincoln-Way East 15 IHSA Class 8A Championship
Lincoln-Way East’s football team gets ready for the Class 8A state championship game at Hancock Stadium in Normal.
Loyola Academy 26, Lincoln-Way East 15 IHSA Class 8A Championship
Lincoln-Way East coach Rob Zvonar talks to his defense Nov. 25.
Loyola Academy 26, Lincoln-Way East 15 IHSA Class 8A Championship
Loyola quarterback Ryan Fitzgerald gets ready for a pass. Fitzgerald is the son of former Sandburg star Pat Fitzgerald, a former Northwestern player and coach.
Loyola Academy 26, Lincoln-Way East 15 IHSA Class 8A Championship
Nuri Muhammad, left, and Stephon Gardner-Gist await a play for Lincoln-Way East in the state championship game against Loyola.
Loyola Academy 26, Lincoln-Way East 15 IHSA Class 8A Championship
East linemen Nick Hochman, left, and Max Cioffi try to keep quarterback Braden Tischer out of harm’s way in the state title game.
Loyola Academy 26, Lincoln-Way East 15 IHSA Class 8A Championship
Lincoln-Way East quarterback Braden Tischer threw for two touchdowns against Loyola in the Class 8A state title game.
Loyola Academy 26, Lincoln-Way East 15 IHSA Class 8A Championship
Griffins players celebrate Trey Zvonar’s touchdown catch in the Class 8A state title game.
Loyola Academy 26, Lincoln-Way East 15 IHSA Class 8A Championship
Griffins fans make noise for the football team in its state title game in Normal.
Loyola Academy 26, Lincoln-Way East 15 IHSA Class 8A Championship
Rob Zvonar, the only coach in Lincoln-Way East history, talks to his team after the state title loss to Loyola on Nov. 25.
Loyola Academy 26, Lincoln-Way East 15 IHSA Class 8A Championship
Lincoln-Way East players accept the second-place Class 8A trophy.
Lincoln-Way East’s football team lost just five games in the last six seasons, and three of those have come at the hands of Loyola Academy.
Lincoln-Way East senior Jaya Veerapaneni joined some elite company in school history. She took eighth place in the 100-yard back stroke with a time of :58.13 seconds at the IHSA state meet.
Brian Maday of Orland Park and Kwaku Appiah, of Frankfort have been keys to the University of St. Francis's 3-0 start in football and a national ranking.Â
Lincoln-Way East girls scored a fourth-place trophy in the state Class 3A soccer tournament June 2-3, the highest finish in the program's history.
Lincoln-Way East and Providence battled to the state football championships in Champaign. Lincoln-Way East lost to Loyola Academy 13-3 in Clas…
