Football Game Preview: St. Charles East Fighting Saints vs. Geneva Vikings

By Team Reports Oct 20, 2025, 10:15pm

Football Preview: St. Charles East Fighting Saints vs. Geneva Vikings

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Previous Games

10/18/24 - Home14-49 L
10/13/23 - Away20-42 L
09/30/22 - Home0-42 L
10/01/21 - Away28-20 W
03/26/21 - Home0-31 L
+ 5 more games

St. Charles East and Geneva are an even 5-5 against one another since October of 2015, but not for long. The Fighting Saints will face off against the Vikings at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams have had a bumpy ride up to this point with three consecutive losses apiece.

St. Charles East is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 35 points last Friday, they were much more limited against Batavia on Friday. They took a 31-13 bruising from the Bulldogs. While losing is never fun, the Fighting Saints can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked 128th, while the Bulldogs are ranked 17th).

Meanwhile, while it was Geneva who put the first points on the board on Friday, it was Wheaton North who put up more. The Vikings and the Falcons were almost perfectly matched up, but the Vikings suffered a 21-20 defeat. While the Vikings didn't get the win, they did start the game off strong, beating the Falcons 7-0 in the first quarter.

St. Charles East will have to contain Ben Peterson as he made an impact in Geneva's last game. He threw for 117 yards and a pair of touchdowns, and also punched in one score on the ground.

Geneva's loss dropped their record down to 3-5. As for St. Charles East, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-7.

St. Charles East was dealt a bruising 49-14 loss at the hands of Geneva when the teams last played back in October of 2024. That matchup was all but decided by halftime, at which point the Fighting Saints were down 35-7.

Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps

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