(Sugar Grove, IL) –  Waubonsee Community College and Kankakee Community College engaged in an intense men's soccer battle on a sunny and warm afternoon in Sugar Grove. The Chiefs eventually prevailed 3-1, holding off the Cavaliers in the second half to improve to 3-0 on the season. Waubonsee managed 25 shots, including a dozen shots on goal, as they kept Kankakee (0-4) back on its heels throughout a majority of the match. 

The Chiefs had a pair of prime scoring opportunities in the first couple of minutes of play. However, Kankakee keeper Tariq Singh, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, made two diving stops. The Chiefs kept the pressure on the Cavaliers and finally broke through in the 20^th minute. Lincoln Lillwitz made a spectacular bicycle kick pass from the far right side of the box back to the middle of the field. Vincent Herbig quickly corralled the pass and drilled a shot into the left corner of the net from 12 yards out for the first score of the day.

Meanwhile, keeper Dana Brisbon Jr. and the Chiefs' defense kept the Cavaliers off the scoreboard, thwarting their offensive attack the handful of times they advanced the ball past midfield. Waubonsee nearly tacked on another score in the final half minute of the first period when Eduardo Cepeda got free on a breakaway. The freshman from Oswego East High School popped a driving shot from 15 yards out over the head of Singh that barely sailed over the top of the cross bar.

Early in the second half the Chiefs got that second goal when Lilwitz scored in the 52^nd minute. Dawid Szeliga lined a pass from the left corner across the front of the goal, which the Chiefs' sophomore forward headed into the far right corner, and out of the reach of Singh. Kankakee nearly scored in the 60^th minute, but Julio Sanchez' shot sailed just wide of the right post. However, a minute later the Cavaliers did break through courtesy of their Caribbean connection. Mark Griffith, another native of Trinidad and Tobago, beat a diving Brisbon on the far side of the net to make it 2-1.

Waubonsee got an insurance score in the 82^nd minute off of a corner kick by Gabriel Gutierrez. The ball pinballed amongst several players in front of the goal and then bounded toward the goal line. A Cavalier's defender tried in vain to redirect the bouncing ball, but only managed to knock it in for an own goal. A foul on the Chiefs gave Kankakee a free kick from 20 yards out with three minutes remaining in the contest. But Griffith's shot went over the top of the cross bar and Waubonsee kept the Cavaliers in check the rest of the way. Coach Brett Suhayda's Chiefs are in action again next Thursday, September 8 when they travel to south suburban Palos Hills to take on Moraine Valley Community College in an Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference match-up beginning at 4:00 p.m.