The Conant Cougars will challenge the Bartlett Hawks at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The two teams each escaped with close wins against their previous opponents.
Conant is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They never let Schaumburg onto the board and left with a 1-0 victory. Given the Cougars' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 45th, while the Saxons are ranked 152nd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Conant's one-goal win came courtesy of
Ben Schaefers, who's now up to six this season.
Meanwhile, Bartlett had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2.5 goals) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They won by a goal and slipped past the Fighting Saints 1-0. That's two games straight that the Hawks have won by just one goal.
Conant pushed their record up to 12-8-2 with the win, which was their fourth straight at home. As for Bartlett, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 12-4-5 record this season.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
