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Chicagoland Soccer Top 25

By Patrick Z. McGavin


That famous T.S. Eliot quotation, in “The Waste Land,” that “April is the cruellest month,” has a wholly different meaning with soccer. April is the most revealing month. The terrible weather and the multiple cancellations and postponements are largely a memory.

Teams are using spring break to get healthy and reinvigorated.

The area programs that traveled to St. Louis for the Parkway College Showcase used the tournament as a way to measure their early progress, and the results were very encouraging. Warren made another leap this week after winning twice in St. Louis, scoring six goals in the second half of its game against Marquette (Missouri). They team also shut out Incarnate Word 4-0 on Saturday (that same team played a very good Belleville West team to a 1-1 draw).

The normal two and a half week March schedule was an unusually slippery one this year; now events are about to gain traction. Two major tournaments launch this week. On Saturday, the PepsiCo Showdown hosts its first-round games at Olympic Park in Schaumburg. Three-time defending tournament champion New Trier is elsewhere, joining Loyola to host a new elite event, the North Shore Invitational, featuring a murderer’s row of elite programs such as top-ranked Naperville North, no. 2 Barrington and the no. 3 Trevians.

As such, the games kick in really seriously starting Monday and push through Saturday. Many of the top conference schedules also feature top match ups, in the DuPage Valley and Mid-Suburban especially.

The first part of the schedule was a prelude, the calm before the storm. Now it is really about to get interesting.
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RankLWSchoolWLTComment
11Naperville N400Caroline Weiss is crucial offensive threat
22Barrington200Kayla Keck is excellent ballhawk
33New Trier500Beat Wisconsin’s best team 2-0
44Glenbard E500Elizabeth Toledo is electric in space
55St. Charles N301Hailey Rydberg is poised and talented midfielder
66St. Charles E301Kaitlyn Dziubinski is heady midfielder
710Warren500Lindsey Hardiman is fun to watch
87Fremd301Julia Leonard is an elite defender
99Sandburg400Best in south suburbs
1011Geneva5005 shutouts, 30-0 aggregate scores
1115Metea V302Katherine Wieland makes St. Louis statement
1212Glenbrook S400Won 3 games last week
1313L-W East611Edged Lyons 1-0 in marquee game
1416Batavia500Keegan Maris is big time athlete
1514Evanston301Won twice out of state
16NRHinsdale S601Unscored upon this year
17HMAndrew610Strong win over Plainfield N
1821Plainfield N520Megan Breier leads St. Louis wins
198Neuqua V022State’s best winless team
2020Conant200Barrington showdown Wednesday
2117Benet210Erin Flynn is a top defender
2223DG North301Keeper Grace Stevenson has been solid
23NRJones600Zoe Wright is magic to watch
2424WW South110Allie Anderson is a top sophomore
25NRLane312Lena Price-Johnson leads talented young squad
Look out for: Naperville Central, Lyons, Huntley,  St. Francis, Wheaton Academy, Bartlett, Sycamore,Lockport, Latin, Glenbrook North, Loyola, Deerfield, Prospect, Libertyville, Wauconda.
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