Orange Lutheran is the top-rated team as the CIF Southern Section gets ready for its first girls flag football championships.

When girls flag football became an official high school sport in Illinois three years ago, just 21 teams signed up to play. This year, the state had roughly 200 teams.

There was a lot of talk at the UIL's legislative council meeting about the possibility of adding girls flag football as a sanctioned sport somewhere down

The Boonsboro girls flag football team already has exceeded all expectations for the season. That's largely because there really weren't any. After all, it's the inaugural year for the sport in Washington County.

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The Illinois High School Association sanctioned girls flag football this year, one of many states to do so amid a national wave of attention for the burgeoning sport.