With the 2025 boys soccer season on the horizon, there are players from across the area ready to make their mark on the field. All in all, 16 players from the Daily Journal’s 2024 All-Area Boys Soccer team are back in the fold this season, with these five standout players among them.

Wences Baumgartner, Beecher , Sr., Striker

One of the most prolific goal scorers not only in the area, but also in Beecher history and the entire state of Illinois, Baumgartner comes into his senior season on the brink of a couple of major milestones.

His 123 career goals through the first three seasons of his career put him 15 shy of the school record set by Logan Wilkins last season as a senior, a year in which Wilkins and Baumgartner became Beecher’s first two 100-goal scorers. If he matches his ca

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