The Taft Eagles have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Kenwood Broncos at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Taft will be strutting in after a victory while Kenwood will be coming in after a loss.
Taft will bounce into Monday's game after beating Loyola Academy, who they hadn't topped in eight consecutive meetings. Taft's defense stepped up to hand Loyola Academy a 5-0 shutout on Saturday. The high-scoring effort was just what the Eagles needed considering they were shutout in their previous contest.
Meanwhile, Kenwood didn't have quite enough to beat Lake View on Friday and fell 3-2. While losing is never fun, the Broncos can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 358th, while the Wildcats are ranked 75th).
Taft has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six matches, which provided a massive bump to their 6-7-2 record this season. As for Kenwood, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 3-8-1.
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