Soccer Game Preview: West Branch vs. Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin

The West Branch Warriors will challenge the Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin Lions at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. West Branch is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.7 goals per game this season.

Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin will be up against a hot West Branch team: the squad just extended their winning streak to three. The Warriors came within a single goal of losing the streak, but they secured a 3-2 W against Field.

Reed Martucci and Leonel Le?n Gonz?lez scored all three of West Branch's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 26 goals.

Firelands typically has all the answers at home, but on Thursday Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin proved too difficult a challenge. While the 1-1 score might suggest a draw, it was the Lions who were credited with the victory. Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin got it done in the shootout by posting three goals to Firelands' one. Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin found success even though the refs didn't miss a thing: Ryan Cvitkovic and Drae Musa were both handed yellow cards.

Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin's win bumped their record up to 10-6-3. As for West Branch, their victory bumped their record up to 14-4.