Soccer Preview: Notre Dame vs. Notre Dame-Green Pond
Notre Dame is 0-6-1 against Notre Dame-Green Pond since October of 2015 but things could change on Monday. The Notre Dame Spartans and the Notre Dame-Green Pond Crusaders are set to duel.
Notre Dame is headed into Monday's matchup looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their third straight game on Friday. They came up short against Wilson Area, falling 5-0. While losing is never fun, the Spartans can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 544th, while the Warriors are ranked 178th).
Meanwhile, Notre Dame-Green Pond's and Palmerton's match on Saturday was close at halftime, but Notre Dame-Green Pond turned on the heat in the second half with four goals. Everything went Notre Dame-Green Pond's way against Palmerton as Notre Dame-Green Pond made off with a 6-3 win. The result was nothing new for the Crusaders, who have now won five games by three goals or more so far this season.
Their offense was hitting Palmerton from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Isaiah Miles led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Notre Dame's loss dropped their record down to 2-11. As for Notre Dame-Green Pond, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last 11 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-4-1 record this season.
Notre Dame suffered a grim 10-1 defeat to Notre Dame-Green Pond in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. That matchup was all but decided by halftime, at which point Notre Dame was down 7-0.
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