Soccer Preview: Elk Grove vs. Buffalo Grove
The Elk Grove Grenadiers will be playing at home against the Buffalo Grove Bison at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday. Elk Grove is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 2.5 goals per game this season.
Last Tuesday, Elk Grove earned a 5-3 victory over Prospect. Given the Grenadiers' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 38th, while the Knights are ranked 175th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Elk Grove hit Prospect with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Arthur Mikina (2),
Kacper Jablonski,
Alexis Jimenez, and
Kuba Chmielewski.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Buffalo Grove). They never let Wheeling onto the board and left with a 3-0 win on Tuesday. The score was close at the half, but the Bison pulled away in the second half with two goals.
Elk Grove is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 10-5 record this season. As for Buffalo Grove, their victory bumped their record up to 5-7-3.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
