The Jones Eagles will take on the Lane Tech Champions at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Jones is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Wednesday. They never let Hancock onto the board and left with a 5-0 win. Jones' defense has been rock solid lately; the team hasn't given up a goal in their last four games.
They hit Hancock with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Oliver Borowski (2),
Jonah Rockrohr,
Luca Miranda, and
Gabriel Elhofy.
Meanwhile, Lane Tech had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5 goals) and they went ahead and made it three on Wednesday. Everything went their way against the Condors as they made off with a 7-0 victory. Given the Champions' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 56th, while the Condors are ranked 215th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jones' win was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 8-5. As for Lane Tech, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 8-2-4 record this season.
Jones suffered a grim 6-0 defeat to Lane Tech when the teams last played back in September of 2022. Can Jones avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
