Soccer Preview: Wellsboro vs. North Penn-Liberty
Wellsboro is 10-0 against North Penn-Liberty since September of 2019, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Wednesday. The Wellsboro Hornets will play host again on Wednesday to welcome the North Penn-Liberty Mountie, where kickoff is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. Both teams beat their previous opponents by a single goal, so this matchup might be just as contested.
Wellsboro's defense heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. They won by a goal and slipped past Athens 1-0. Given the Hornets' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 147th, while the Wildcats are ranked 312th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Wellsboro's one-goal win came courtesy of
David Seeling, who's now up to eight this season.
Meanwhile, North Penn-Liberty's game on Monday was all tied up 1-1 at the half, but luckily for them it didn't stay that way. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past Jersey Shore 3-2. That's two games straight that the Mountie have won by just one goal.
Wellsboro's win bumped their record up to 9-2. As for North Penn-Liberty, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 6-4-1.
Everything went Wellsboro's way against North Penn-Liberty in their previous meeting on September 5th as Wellsboro made off with a 4-1 win. Will Wellsboro repeat their success, or does North Penn-Liberty have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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