Scouting Wheaton Warrenville South at West Aurora

Game time: 7:30 p.m. today

Last year: WW South 61, West Aurora 0.

Last week: WW South 49, Glenbard North 6; West Aurora 55, Glenbard East 32.

Outlook: West Aurora's reward for its big win to stay alive in the playoff hunt is to face MaxPreps' No. 14 team in the country, the WW South Tigers. The Tigers, favored to win a second straight Class 7A state championship, average 43.4 points a game and allow 7.5. They've been nicked by injuries, but Illinois-bound quarterback Reilly O'Toole (1,745 yards passing, 73 completion percentage, 26 touchdowns, 1 interception) makes it academic. The sure all-stater targets Titus Davis (26 catches, 615 yards, 11 touchdowns) and Travis Kern (26-510-5). "Our scouts thought their quarterback will be playing on Sunday afternoons at some point in his career," said West Aurora coach Buck Drach, who hopes one of his top players is active Friday night. Nate Zinzer didn't play against Glenbard East after an Achilles problem flared up in Week 7 and this week he was still having trouble. Last week it was Zinzer's pal Matt Souvannasing with a career day. He intercepted a pass and returned it 44 yards for a touchdown, returned a kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown, and caught a Josh Campbell pass for another score and he recovered a fumble, caused by linebacker Booker Ross, that led to the Blackhawks' go-ahead score. Tyson Lassiter ran for 169 big yards. West needs that magic tonight. WW South starts 19 seniors, three more than West has on the team; it's a group with sound technique whose only starter under 6 feet is 5-11 Matt Rogers (643 yards rushing, 12 touchdowns). Drach's hope is to figure out how to move the ball and score, kill the clock, "dink and doink and take it from there," he said. "I think we've got to take in a David and Goliath kind of thought."