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By Team Reports Sep 20, 2024, 1:11am

Soccer Preview: Butler vs. Knoch

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The Butler Golden Tornado will face off against the Knoch Knights at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Butler is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 4 goals per game this season.

Butler's defense heads into the matchup hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. They blew past Taylor Allderdice 5-0. The result was nothing new for the Golden Tornado, who have now won four contests by three goals or more so far this season.

They hit Taylor Allderdice with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from Cecelia Wolford (2), Ava Soley, and Kaitlynn Plopi.

Meanwhile, Knoch's game last Wednesday was all tied up 0-0 at the half, but sadly for them it didn't stay that way. They took a 2-0 hit to the loss column at the hands of Burrell. While losing is never fun, the Knights can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 279th, while the Bucs are ranked 85th).

The win got Butler back to even at 4-4. As for Knoch, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 0-2-1.

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