Soccer Preview: Portage vs. Crown Point
On Monday Portage will have to hit the road after four straight games at home. They will challenge the Crown Point Bulldogs at 6:00 p.m.
Portage is probably headed into the match with a chip on their shoulder considering Chesterton just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Wednesday. They came up short against the Trojans, falling 5-0. While losing is never fun, the Indians can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Indiana soccer rankings (they are ranked 196th, while the Trojans are ranked 16th).
Meanwhile, Crown Point hasn't lost a match since September 18th, a trend which continued in their latest game on Saturday. They never let Culver Academies onto the board and left with a 2-0 victory.
Logan Borner and
Nicholas Whitaker scored both of Crown Point's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 13 goals.
Portage's loss ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 5-11. As for Crown Point, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last eight contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-3-2 record this season.
Portage suffered a grim 4-0 defeat to Crown Point in their previous matchup back in September. Can Portage avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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