Soccer Preview: East Noble vs. Fort Wayne Northrop
The East Noble Knights will venture away from home to challenge the Fort Wayne Northrop Bruins at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. East Noble is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 2.8 goals per game this season.
Fort Wayne Northrop is hoping to do what Lakeland couldn't on Monday: put an end to East Noble's winning streak, which now stands at three games. East Noble came out on top against Lakeland by a score of 3-1. Given the Knights' advantage in MaxPreps' Indiana soccer rankings (they are ranked 58th, while the Lakers are ranked 205th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
East Noble hit Lakeland with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Peyton Straessle,
Silas Hand, and
Roman Pita.
Meanwhile, after failing to score in their last match, Fort Wayne Northrop made sure to put some goals up on the board against Fort Wayne Wayne on Thursday. Their defense stepped up to hand the Generals a 5-0 shutout. The matchup marked the Bruins' most dominant victory of the season so far.
Fort Wayne Northrop was without their leading scorer, Namik Mehic, in Thursday's contest. With Mehic sidelined, TJ Metro got his first action of the season.
East Noble's win bumped their record up to 3-1. As for Fort Wayne Northrop, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 3-0-1.
East Noble suffered a grim 4-0 defeat to Fort Wayne Northrop in their previous matchup back in October of 2019. Can East Noble avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
