Soccer Preview: Lehighton vs. Saucon Valley
The Lehighton Indians will venture away from home to challenge the Saucon Valley Panthers at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Saucon Valley took a loss in their last game and will be looking to turn the tables on Lehighton, who comes in off a win.
On Thursday, Lehighton narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Northern Lehigh 3-2. The game got a bit rough at times, as the refs handed out a total of three yellow cards before it was all over: the Indians' Jaxson Strauss and Carlin West and the Bulldogs' Zaid Salih were all carded.
Jesse Waksmunski and Strauss scored all three of Lehighton's goals, bringing their combined season tally to eight goals.
Meanwhile, Saucon Valley managed to keep up with Notre Dame-Green Pond until halftime on Thursday, but things quickly went downhill from there. Saucon Valley came up short against Notre Dame-Green Pond, falling 3-0. While losing is never fun, the Panthers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 375th, while the Crusaders are ranked 171st).
Lehighton has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four contests, which provided a massive bump to their 3-3 record this season. As for Saucon Valley, their defeat dropped their record down to 2-4.
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