Soccer Preview: Selinsgrove vs. Benton
The Selinsgrove Seals will be staying on the road on Tuesday to face off against the Benton Tigers at 4:00 p.m. The two teams each escaped with close wins against their previous opponents.
Selinsgrove's defense heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Saturday. They had just enough and edged Altoona out 1-0. The win was all the more spectacular given the Seals' disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 151st, while the Mountain Lions are ranked 13th).
Selinsgrove's one-goal win came courtesy of
Damien Pardoe, who's now up to 11 this season.
Meanwhile, Benton had already won 12 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.3 goals) and they went ahead and made it 13 on Saturday. They had just enough and edged the Ironmen out 2-1.
Selinsgrove is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four contests, which provided a nice bump to their 9-7 record this season. As for Benton, they pushed their record up to 16-1 with the victory, which was their eighth straight at home.
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