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Brother Rice vs. St. Rita final score: Crusaders end historic 44-year drought in IHSA Class 7A state title game

For the first time since 1981, Brother Rice is on top of the Illinois high school football world.

The Crusaders had taken two trips back to the state championship game in the meantime, failing to bring home either trophy. But on Wednesday, in a rescheduled IHSA Class 7A title game at NIU, Brother Rice was triumphant.

The final: a dominant 16-0 over St. Rita.

The two South Side schools separated by just 4.6 miles traveled to DeKalb to play a game that was supposed to be contested Saturday, only to be postponed due to snow that shut down the Illinois State campus.

That meant a new hosting site, but in the end, the result was the same as the Week 3 meeti

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