Peoria managed to keep up with Bloomington until halftime on Tuesday, but things quickly went downhill from there. The Lions lost 4-1 to the Purple Raiders. While losing is never fun, Peoria can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 300th, while Bloomington are ranked 149th).
Peoria's loss dropped their record down to 0-6. As for Bloomington, their win was their first in the conference, bumping their conference record up to 1-2 and their overall record up to 6-4-1.
We've got plenty of inter-conference action coming up soon. Peoria is set to face off against their familiar foe Normal West at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Bloomington will square off against rival Urbana at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
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