Edwardsville, Father McGivney to soon start their push toward state – The Edwardsville Intelligencer

Edwardsville’s Astri Selberg defends against Father McGivney’s Layla Tobin on April 29, 2026, inside the District 7 Sports Complex in Edwardsville.
Edwardsville’s Maggie Cadagin tries to keep possession against Father McGivney’s Natalie Beck on April 29, 2026, inside the District 7 Sports Complex in Edwardsville.
The path to Naperville is set for area high school girls soccer teams.
Three IHSA state champions will be crowned June 6 at North Central College. The Class 1A semifinals are scheduled for June 4, followed by the Class 1A third-place game and the Class 2A and 3A semifinals on June 5. The Class 2A and 3A third-place games and all three state championship games will be played June 6.
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Edwardsville will try to reach the state tournament for the third time in program history and for the second time in three seasons after finishing fourth in Class 3A in 2024. Father McGivney will be chasing its first state tournament appearance and first state trophy.
Below is the potential schedule for the Class 3A Tigers and Class 1A Griffins.
Edwardsville’s path
The Tigers are the No. 2 seed in the Normal Community Sub-Sectional.
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Edwardsville will host its regional and face No. 7 Springfield Southeast in the first round at 5 p.m. May 19. The other semifinal between No. 3 Belleville West and No. 6 Normal Community will follow at 7 p.m.
The regional championship game is scheduled for 6 p.m. May 22 in Edwardsville.
The Tigers have won eight straight regional titles.
The regional champions from Edwardsville, Collinsville, Minooka and Moline will advance to the Normal Community Sectional. The Collinsville Regional and Edwardsville Regional winners will meet in a sectional semifinal May 26.
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Edwardsville and O’Fallon have split their last six sectional semifinal meetings, with O’Fallon going on to win a state championship after each of its three victories.
The sectional championship game is scheduled for 11 a.m. May 30 in Normal.
Sectional champions from Normal Community and Tinley Park Andrew will meet in the Bloomington Super-Sectional at 6 p.m. June 1, with the winner advancing to the state tournament.
Father McGivney’s path
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The Griffins are the No. 1 seed in their half of the Columbia Sectional and will play in the Breese Central Regional.
Father McGivney will face the winner of ninth-seeded Metro-East Lutheran and eighth-seeded Salem at 4:30 p.m. May 18 in Breese. The other semifinal will follow between fourth-seeded Mater Dei against sixth-seeded Breese Central.
The regional championship game is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. May 22 in Breese.
The Griffins have won three straight regional titles, winning those six games by a combined 39-0.
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The regional champions from Breese Central, Freeburg, Murphysboro and Althoff will advance to the Columbia Sectional. The Breese Central Regional champion will face the Freeburg Regional winner at 6:30 p.m. May 26, following the other semifinal at 4:30 p.m.
The sectional championship game is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. May 29 in Columbia.
The Civic Memorial Super-Sectional, matching the Columbia and Litchfield sectional champions, is set for 5 p.m. June 1 in Bethalto, with the winner advancing to the state tournament.
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Matt Kamp is the sports editor of the Edwardsville Intelligencer. He has been with the newspaper since 2010, serving in multiple roles, including as sports editor since 2013. Kamp has won multiple awards from the Illinois Press Association, is a future member of the IBCA Hall of Fame, and is a recipient of a Special Recognition Award from the Edwardsville High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
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