Soccer Preview: McEwen vs. East Hickman County
The McEwen Warriors will challenge the East Hickman County Eagles at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
East Hickman County is hoping to do on Tuesday what Hickman County couldn't on Friday: put an end to McEwen's winning streak, which now stands at four games. McEwen's defense stepped up to hand Hickman County a 2-0 shutout. Two seems to be a good number for McEwen as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of goals in their previous game.
Truman Gill and
Ty Adams scored both of McEwen's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 13 goals.
Meanwhile, East Hickman County's game on Tuesday was all tied up 1-1 at the half, but luckily for them it didn't stay that way. They won by a goal and slipped past East Robertson 2-1. The victory made it back-to-back wins for East Hickman County.
McEwen is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 8-4 record this season. As for East Hickman County, they now have a winning record of 5-4-1.
McEwen came out on top in a nail-biter against East Hickman County in their previous matchup two weeks ago, sneaking past 4-3. The rematch might be a little tougher for McEwen since the team won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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