Soccer Game Preview: Normal University vs. Dunlap

The Normal University Pioneers will venture away from home to take on the Dunlap Eagles at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. Dunlap is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.8 goals per game this season.

Normal University will head out to face Dunlap after giving up their first home loss of the season on Thursday. The Pioneers fell 2-0 to Sacred Heart-Griffin.

Meanwhile, Dunlap had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6.5 goals) and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. They never let the Grey Ghosts get on the board and left with a 9-0 victory. Given Dunlap's advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 52nd, while Illinois Valley Central are ranked 361st), the win wasn't entirely unexpected.

Dunlap has now won five of their last six games at home. That's given a solid lift to their 11-4 record this season. The home wins were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 31 goals over those six contests. As for Normal University, their defeat was their first in the conference, dropping their conference record down to 6-1 and their overall record down to 14-5-1.