Soccer Game Preview: Russellville vs. Mars Hill Bible

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Previous Games

02/18/25 - Away	4-0 W
04/11/24 - Away	2-1 W
02/13/24 - Home	2-0 W
04/28/23 - Home	1-0 W
03/13/23 - Away	1-1 T
+ 3 more games

Russellville is 7-0-1 against Mars Hill Bible since March of 2017 and they'll have a chance to extend that dominance on Thursday. The Golden Tigers will challenge the Panthers at 7:00 p.m.

Russellville fell victim to Florence and their airtight defense on Tuesday. They came up short against the Falcons, falling 4-0. While losing is never fun, Russellville can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Alabama soccer rankings (they are ranked 85th, while Florence are ranked sixth).

Meanwhile, Mars Hill Bible hasn't lost a match since March 8th, a trend which continued in their latest game on Tuesday. They never let East Lawrence get on the board and left with a 10-0 win. Mars Hill Bible might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won seven games by three goals or more this season.

Their offense was hitting East Lawrence from everywhere, as nine different players booted in a goal. Henry Mann led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.

Mars Hill Bible is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests. That's provided a nice bump to their 9-5-4 record this season. Those victories came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 26 goals over those six matchups. As for Russellville, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 4-6-2.

Russellville took their win against Mars Hill Bible in their previous matchup back in February by a conclusive 4-0 score. Will the Golden Tigers repeat their success, or do the Panthers have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.