The Merrillville Pirates will take on the Hammond Central Wolves at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Merrillville's offense has struggled lately (the team hasn't scored more than a single goal for three straight games), a trend the team is no doubt ready to end.
Merrillville is headed into Tuesday's following a draw, the team's first since August 24. They and Hobart finished up their matchup with a 0-0 draw on Saturday.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Hammond Central). Everything went their way against Hammond Morton on Thursday as Hammond Central made off with a 7-1 victory. Wolves might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six games by three goals or more this season.
Their offense was hitting Hammond Morton from everywhere, as six different players booted in a goal.
Julian Cortez led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Merrillville's draw gives them a new season record of 6-7-3. As for Hammond Central, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won three of their last four matches, which provided a nice bump to their 8-1-5 record this season.
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