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Chicagoland Soccer Top 25


By Patrick Z. McGavin

This is the final phase, the prelude to the final order of things.

A season that started just nine weeks ago now zooms to the crucial stage -- the start of the state tournament in Class AA and Class 3A.

This is the final poll until the closing Final 50 poll following the conclusion of the Class AA and Class 3A state tournaments on the first weekend of June. That pool will bring together the Top 25 poll and the Illinois 10, and will consider any school, public or private, that played in Illinois this year.

This is also the start of crucial player awards being handed out, with all-conference lists, all-state and all-sectional performers as determined by the Illinois High School Soccer Coaches Association.

Chicagoland Soccer’s fourth annual all-state will also publish. New Trier’s extraordinary midfielder Emma Weaver was the best player in the state during the regular season. She was named an All-American.

In the comment section for this week’s final poll, the Top 25 lists the school’s state tournament seed at its designated sectional complex. For instance, two-time defending Class 3A state champion and top-ranked Barrington, “Top-seed at Guilford,” refers to the sectional at Guilford High School in Rockford.

Unless otherwise indicated, each seed refers to a Class 3A sectional.

The Chicagoland Soccer coverage schools are part of the following sectionals in Class 3A: East Aurora, Glenbard East, Andrew, Buffalo Grove, New Trier, Guilford and Schaumburg.

The Class AA sectionals included here are: Antioch, the subsectional at Hampshire and Nazareth.

Even before a single game is played in the state tournament, a natural debate flows over the best sectional: East Aurora is top-heavy with three teams (Neuqua Valley, Naperville North, Waubonsie Valley) and two honorable mention teams; Glenbard East has three ranked teams, two of which, Jones and Young, as city teams are seeded higher than Chicago Public League programs are normally considered here; Andrew does not have a team in the final regular season poll, though top-seeds Sandburg, Andrew and Mother McAuley have been previously ranked, and Lincoln-Way Central has been a consistent honorable mention program.

Buffalo Grove features third-ranked Stevenson. 

New Trier is arguably the best team around -- the Trevians are sectional hosts and the top seed. They are going for their sixth-straight sectional title. Their opposition includes five ranked programs, including five-time city champion Lane, whose sixth-seed is nearly the same as its ranking this week -- the no. 8 slot is its highest of the season. Evanston will contend. The Wildkits moved up a slot after an impressive end-of-the-regular-season victory over Benet. Loyola, which earned a share of the conference title, is back in the poll at no. 25. 

Cary-Grove dropped out of the poll after a 3-1 loss against conference rival Prairie Ridge. The Trojans took Barrington to double-overtime last year in the sectional final. The Fillies are the only-ranked team at Guilford, but Cary-Grove and South Elgin are near the top of the honorable mention programs.

The deepest sectional is clearly Schaumburg, whose top-six seeds are ranked, headed by no. 2 St. Charles North and no. 5 St. Charles East who are joined by Batavia, Conant, Wheaton Warrenville South and Geneva.

That is impressive. These playoffs should be too.

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​Games through end of regular season (May 11)
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Rk LW Team W L T Comment
11Barrington1611Top-seed at Guilford
22St. Charles North1512Top-seed at Schaumburg
33Stevenson1812Top-seed at Buffalo Grove
44New Trier1725Top-seed at own sectional
56St. Charles East1950Third-seed at Schaumburg
65Benet1731Top-seed at Class AA Nazareth
79Lyons1321Top-seed at Glenbard East
811Lane1831Sixth-seed at New Trier
910Neuqua Valley944Second-seed at East Aurora
108Naperville North854Top-seed at East Aurora
1114Waubonsie Valley1422Third-seed at East Aurora
127Batavia1542Fourth-seed at Schaumburg
1312St. Ignatius1622Second-seed at Class AA Nazareth
1413Conant1422Second-seed at Schaumburg
1517Lemont1741Second-seed at Class AA Rich East
1619Wauconda1321Top-seed at Class AA Antioch
1723WW South1341Sixth-seed at Schaumburg
1816Fremd1143Third-seed at Buffalo Grove
1915Glenbrook South1732Second-seed at New Trier
2021Evanston1252Third-seed at New Trier
21HMPrairie Ridge1711Second-seed at Class AA Hampshire subsectional
2218Geneva1051Fifth-seed at Schaumburg
2325Young1561Seventh-seed at Glenbard East
2424Jones1760Third-seed at Glenbard East
25HMLoyola963Fifth seed at New Trier
Look out for: Cary-Grove, Sandburg, Joliet Catholic, Metea Valley, South Elgin, Glenbard East, Crystal Lake Central, Mundelein, Warren, North Shore Country Day, Maine South, Andrew, Plainfield South, Lincoln-Way Central, Sycamore.



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