BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL – Myson Johnson-Cook ran for 183 yards and two touchdowns, while Ahmad Coleman ran for 105 yards and another touchdown, but East St. Louis lost the IHSA Class 6A football championship game to Oak Park Fenwick Catholic 38-28 Tuesday evening, Dec. 2, 2025, at a cold Hancock Stadium on the campus of Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal.
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The game was originally scheduled for Saturday, but was postponed to Tuesday after a winter storm warning was posted for the Bloomington-Normal area for five to 12 inches of snow. The IHSA pushed the game back to Tuesday, along with the Class 5A final, which was won by Wheaton St. Francis Catholic 39-35 over New Lenox Providence Catholic.
The Friars scored first on a four-yard run by Jake Theis on the game’s first possession to go up 7-0. The Flyers came to within 7-6 on a one-yard run by Johnson-Cook, with a missed convert, then took the lead for the first time on a 55-yard dash by Coleman with 51 seconds left in the first quarter to go up 13-7. Fenwick took back the lead with the only scoring play of the second quarter, a 37-yard touchdown pass from Jamen Williams to Cameron Garrett to make the score 14-13 for the Friars at halftime
Fenwick extended its lead in the third quarter on a 15-yard touchdown pass from Williams to Raphael Stewart to go ahead 21-13, but the Flyers tied the game with 11:42 left in the quarter, when Johnson-Cook ran in from four yards away, then quarterback Reece Shanklin hit Ronnie Gomiller with a two-point pass in the end zone to draw level at 21-21.
It didn’t take the Friars long to counter, as Theis went off on a 74-yard touchdown run with 1:25 to go back in front 28-21. The Flyers tied things up again at 28-28 early in the fourth on Coleman’s nine-yard touchdown run with 9:18 left. The Friars took the lead back on a 31-yard field goal by Noah Sur with 2:45 left to go ahead 31-28, then clinched the title with 2:22 to go on a three-yard run by Williams to take the Class 6A title 38-28.
Fenwick ends its season as the champions at 11-3, while the Flyers' final record is 9-4.
