Batavia is 0-4 against Chicago Mt. Carmel since November of 2014 but things could change on Saturday. The Batavia Bulldogs will face off against the Chicago Mt. Carmel Caravan at 4:00 p.m. Batavia will be looking to extend their current seven-game winning streak.
Batavia is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Saturday. They secured a 25-21 W over Lincoln-Way Central. Given the Bulldogs' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked seventh, while the Knights are ranked 46th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Isaiah Brown went supernova for Batavia, picking up 93 receiving yards and three touchdowns. The team also got some help courtesy of Michael Vander Luitgaren, who threw for 210 yards and three touchdowns on only 18 passes.
Meanwhile, Chicago Mt. Carmel had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 27.3 points) and they went ahead and made it four on Saturday. They strolled past the Mustangs with points to spare, taking the game 43-24. The Caravan pushed the score to 43-7 by the end of the third, a deficit the Mustangs cut but never quite recovered from.
Chicago Mt. Carmel is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a nice bump to their 10-3 record this season. Those good results were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they averaged 39.0 points per game. As for Batavia, their victory was their fifth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 12-1.
Batavia took a serious blow against Chicago Mt. Carmel when the teams last played back in November of 2023, falling 64-26. That matchup was all but decided by halftime, at which point Batavia was down 42-14.
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