Soccer Game Preview: Aurora East vs. Wheaton-Warrenville South

Aurora East is on a three-game streak of home losses, and Wheaton-Warrenville South a three-game streak of away losses. However, someone's due for a change in luck on Saturday. The Aurora East Tomcats will host the Wheaton-Warrenville South Tigers at 10:30 a.m. Wheaton-Warrenville South took a loss in their last match and will be looking to turn the tables on Aurora East, who comes in off a win.

Aurora East is headed in fresh off scoring the most goals they have all season. They blew past Plainfield South 5-2 on Thursday. Aurora East haven't had any issues with Plainfield South recently, as the game was their fourth consecutive victory against them.

Aurora East hit Plainfield South with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from Jeremie Bititi (2), Kenneth Montano (2), and Exmar Martinez.

The home team had won the previous three meetings between Wheaton-Warrenville South and Geneva, and Geneva kept the tradition alive. The Tigers fell just short of the Vikings by a score of 1-0 on Thursday. While losing is never fun, Wheaton-Warrenville South can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 116th, while Geneva are ranked 20th).

Wheaton-Warrenville South's loss dropped their record down to 6-9-2. As for Aurora East, their win bumped their record up to 5-9-5.

Aurora East took their victory against Wheaton-Warrenville South in their previous matchup back in October of 2021 by a conclusive 4-0 score. Will the Tomcats repeat their success, or do the Tigers have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.