The Aurora East Tomcats have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Plainfield South Cougars at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday.
Aurora East is headed into the match having not lost since the first and will look to keep things rolling. They and Ridgewood finished up their matchup with a 3-3 draw on Wednesday. While a more conclusive result would've been nice, the Tomcats got plenty of practice considering the match was the highest-scoring draw the team's played all season.
Jay Umana and
Asbel Vazquez scored all three of Aurora East's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 30 goals.
Meanwhile, Plainfield South was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their eighth straight loss. They fell just short of Romeoville by a score of 1-0. While losing is never fun, the Cougars can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 300th, while the Spartans are ranked 58th).
With that draw, Aurora East's record moves to 8-7-5. As for Plainfield South, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-16-1.
Everything went Aurora East's way against Plainfield South in their previous matchup back in October of 2023, as Aurora East made off with a 6-0 victory. Does Aurora East have another victory up their sleeve, or will Plainfield South turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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