The St. Joseph Central Flyers will head out to take on the Eastern Warriors at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Eastern is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 2.6 goals per game this season.
St. Joseph Central is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 15 goals on Tuesday, they were much more limited against Minford on Thursday. They lost 4-1 to the Falcons. While losing is never fun, St. Joseph Central can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio soccer rankings (they are ranked 211th, while Minford are ranked 26th).
Meanwhile, Eastern had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.0 goals) and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. They put the hurt on Goshen with a sharp 4-1 win. Eastern might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six games by three goals or more this season.
Eastern has now won four of their last five games at home. That's provided a nice bump to their 9-3-2 record this season. Those home victories were made possible by their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 15 goals over those five matchups. As for St. Joseph Central, their defeat dropped their record down to 9-4-2.
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