Soccer Preview: Steele Meets Wheeling Central Catholic

The Steele Comets will square off against the Wheeling Central Catholic Maroon Knights at 1:00 p.m. on Monday. Wheeling Central Catholic is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 5.3 goals per game this season.

Last Wednesday, Steele didn't have quite enough to beat Berea-Midpark and fell 3-2. While losing is never fun, Steele can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio soccer rankings (they are ranked 204th, while Berea-Midpark are ranked 93rd).

Meanwhile, Wheeling Central Catholic's matchup on Saturday was close up to the half, but then they kicked things up a notch. Their defense stepped up to hand Nitro a 3-0 shutout. Give Wheeling Central Catholic's defense some credit: that's the team's third straight shutout.

Wheeling Central Catholic has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 11 of their last 12 contests, dating back to last year. That gives them a 6-1 record this season. The victories came by way of their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 70 goals over those 12 games. As for Steele, their defeat dropped their record down to 2-2.