The East Suburban Catholic Conference will wake up Friday morning with three undefeated teams - Marist, St. Patrick and Notre Dame. And with St. Patrick traveling to Notre Dame a few hours later, that grouping won't last very long.
Benet and Joliet Catholic are 1-0 in conference, but each lost its first two games. And of the five teams that lost its ESCC opener last week, four started the season 2-0. As Benet coach Gary Goforth said on Thursday: "Who knows?"
"This could be a topsy-turvy year in the conference for all we know," Goforth said.
Already this season Wheaton Warrenville South hammered Joliet Catholic, St. Joseph snapped a 45-game losing streak that stretched across five seasons and 3-0 Marist could be off to its best start since 1986.
With 10 starters returning from a 10-3 team that advanced to the Class 7A semifinals last season, Carmel was supposed to be an early ESCC frontrunner, but the Corsairs (2-1, 0-1) stumbled in the rain last week against an improved Marist team. That's how it's gone so far in an unpredictable ESCC.
Forget what we thought we knew - what will the ESCC look like by the end of Friday night and at the beginning of November?
