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Chicagoland Soccer Top 25

By Patrick Z. McGavin


The last days of the regular season for the large school classification yielded some typically sharp soccer that helped illuminate the larger picture. Lane won its third-consecutive city championship with a late three-goal burst over Jones. 

Top-ranked Barrington won an unprecedented sixth-consecutive MSL Cup in beating Buffalo Grove 2-0. Against one of the toughest schedules in the state (Naperville North twice, New Trier and Fremd), the Fillies had a goal differential of 74-5.

This is the final poll of the regular season. An end of the year poll will be published following the Class AA and 3A state championships June 3 at North Central College in Naperville.

The comments section is dedicated to the respective seeds of the top 25. Unless designated, the seeds refer to the Class 3A field. The rankings provide a way to adjudicate the strongest sectionals.

The Class 3A Warren Sectional features three programs ranked in the top seven and four in the top nine: Barrington, Warren, Fremd and Lake Forest. Lake Zurich is also there, as is a very dangerous Palatine team. Libertyville and Carmel are also contenders.

Lockport has three top 10 schools: Naperville North, Neuqua Valley and Metea Valley.

The Glenbrook North sectional features just one top four team (New Trier), but it has three of the hottest teams in the state: Lane, Loyola and Maine South. The Hawks are 10-1-1 in their last 12 games and features an elite scorer in senior Emma Thomson.

Hoffman Estates has two top five programs, Upstate Eight Conference River Division co-champions St. Charles North and Geneva. St. Charles North, one of two unbeatens (with Wauconda), is a no. 2-seed there. Geneva was unbeaten and untied at the time of the seeding meeting. The two schools played to a 0-0 draw in the regular season.

The weather is finally sublime, matching the quality of the soccer. The next two and a half weeks are going to be some kind of fun.
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RkLWSchoolWLTComment
11Barrington2110No. 1 seed at Warren Sectional
22SC North1503No. 2 seed at Hoffman Estates
33N North1623No. 1 seed at Lockport
44New Trier1821No. 1 seed at Glenbrook North
56Geneva1811No. 1 seed at Hoffman Estates, regional host
65Warren1812Second-seeded sectional host
77Fremd1441No. 3 seed at Warren, regional host
88Neuqua V1034No. 2 seed at Lockport
99L Forest1141No. 5 seed at Warren, regional host
1010Metea V1434No. 3 seed at Lockport
1112Nazareth1821Top-seeded sectional host (2A)
1213Lane1623No. 7 seed at Glenbrook North
1317Loyola1560No. 3 seed at Glenbrook North, regional host
1414Lyons1341No. 2 seed at DG North, regional host
1511Batavia1232No. 3 seed at Hoffman Estates
16NRMaine S1241No. 6 seed at Glenbrook North
1719L Zurich1650No. 4 seed at Warren
1818Wauconda1501No. 2 seed at Deerfield (2A)
1915DG North1523Top-seeded sectional host
2016CL South1711No. 1 seed at Huntley
2121GBS1740No. 4 seed at Glenbrook North, regional host
2220L-W East1431No. 1 seed at Sandburg, regional host
2323N Central1074No. 4 seed at Lockport, regional host
24HMSycamore1614#1 sub-sect. seed at Hampshire, regional host (2A)
25HMLemont1514No. 1 seed at Marist, regional host (2A)
  Look out for: St. Charles East, Jones, Evanston, Burlington Central, Prairie Ridge, West Aurora, Latin, Minooka, Glenbard East, Libertyville, Palatine, Glenbrook North, Conant, Plainfield North, Waubonsie Valley
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