
Friday Night Drive Podcast, Episode 424: Western Suburbs Quarterfinals Playoff Preview
By Mark Chen
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The top part of the Friday Night Drive Power Rankings largely showed exactly why they deserved that placement.The top six teams moved through to the quarterfinals with limited difficulty.But starting with the seventh ranked team (Maine South) things got pretty bumpy for the rest of the ranked teams.In all, along with Maine South, seven teams (Geneva, Batavia, Montini, Homewood-Flossmoor, St. Rita and Barrington) all bowed out of the postseason.Those losses led to several teams making a significant climb and four new teams moving into the Top 25.St. Ignatius made the biggest move with its win over Maine South climbing into the Top 10 with its win. Morris also climbed up to No. 15 by ousting the defending Class 4A State Champions from Montini.Of the five newcomers/returners to the poll it marked a good week for Wheaton. Coupled with Wheaton St. Francis who was already ranked, Wheaton Warrenville South (No. 20) and Wheaton North (No. 21) broke into the rankings.Fenwick (No. 24) and Cary-G