Soccer Preview: Bennington vs. Schuyler
Bennington has enjoyed a four-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will challenge the Schuyler Warriors at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
If Bennington beats Schuyler with five goals on Thursday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two games with that exact score. Bennington never let Northwest onto the board and left with a 5-0 victory on Saturday. Given Bennington's advantage in MaxPreps' Nebraska soccer rankings (they are ranked sixth, while Northwest is ranked 45th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Bennington hit Northwest with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Austin Kaiser (2),
Beau Pick (2), and
Caden Boyer.
Meanwhile, Schuyler had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 7 goals), and they went ahead and made it seven on Saturday. They put the hurt on the Tigers with a sharp 6-0 win.
Bennington pushed their record up to 20-0 with that victory, which was their 13th straight at home. As for Schuyler, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 11 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 14-3 record this season.
Everything went Bennington's way against Schuyler in their previous meeting back in May of 2023 as Bennington made off with a 4-1 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for Bennington since the team won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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