Soccer Preview: Hanover Central vs. Yorktown
A feisty cat fight will be fought when Wildcats challenges the Yorktown Tigers at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday. Each of these teams will be battling to keep a four-game winning streak alive.
Hanover Central is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Wednesday. They never let Culver Academies onto the board and left with a 2-0 victory. Given the Wildcats' advantage in MaxPreps' Indiana soccer rankings (they are ranked 20th, while the Eagles are ranked 65th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Kiara Desiderio was the driving force of Hanover Central's attack as she scored both of Hanover Central's goals, bringing her season total up to 78 goals.
Meanwhile, Yorktown won against Delta on Saturday with one goal and they decided to stick to that goal total again on Wednesday. Yorktown narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Oak Hill 1-0.
Hanover Central's victory was their eighth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 17-2. As for Yorktown, they have been performing well recently as they've won six of their last eight contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-6-2 record this season.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
