#7 Fremd beats #10 Evanston, 24-13,...

...for the right to play the winner of today's Loyola-Whitney Young game. Running back Justin Wallace (above) gained 288 yards on 43 carries and scored three touchdowns for the Vikings. Wallace also converted three first downs on fourth-and-one.

The victory was Fremd's fifth in a row after a disastrous 1-4 start.

In other Friday night games:

Class 8A:

#1 Stevenson shut out # 16 New Trier, 21-0;
#4 Homewood-Flossmoor defeated #13 Curie, 41-14;
#12 Brother Rice lost to #5 Waubonsie Valley, 33-7; and
#3 Mount Carmel crushed #14 Bolingbrook, 55-27.

Class 7A:

#2 St. Rita (without Jahwon Akui) beat #15 Highland Park, 28-19;
#10 Harlem (who?) upset #7 Glenbrook North, 31-21;
#3 Carmel had no trouble with #14 Elgin, 55-7; and
# 1 Wheaton Warrenville continued its inexorable march to Champaign against Benet, 49-7.

Class 5A:

# Joliet Catholic annihilated #7 Washington, 49-7. (Again, who? Doesn't matter now.)