The Elgin Maroons will challenge the Whitney Young Dolphins at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Elgin sitting on six straight wins and Whitney Young on four.
If Elgin beats Whitney Young with three goals on Saturday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two contests with that exact score. Elgin sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 victory over Leyden on Thursday. The win was all the more spectacular given the Maroons' disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 80th, while the Eagles are ranked second).
Elgin hit Leyden with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Robert Salinas,
Aaron Saldana, and
Alberto Gaytan.
Meanwhile, while the 1-1 score might suggest a draw, it was Whitney Young who was credited with the victory on Thursday. Whitney Young got it done in the shootout by posting four goals to Stagg's three.
Elgin's record now sits at 6-1-2. As for Whitney Young, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matches, which provided a nice bump to their 7-3-2 record this season.
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