The Gibault Catholic Hawks have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Jersey Panthers at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
Gibault Catholic is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to ten goals on Monday, they were much more limited against Althoff Catholic on Wednesday. They lost 8-0 to the Crusaders. The Hawks haven't had much luck with the Crusaders recently, as the team's come up short the last five times they've met.
Meanwhile, Jersey was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their third straight defeat. They fell just short of Waterloo by a score of 3-2. While losing is never fun, the Panthers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 398th, while the Bulldogs are ranked 167th).
Gibault Catholic's loss dropped their record down to 6-11. As for Jersey, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-16-2.
Gibault Catholic took their win against Jersey when the teams last played back in October of 2017 by a conclusive 6-1. Will Gibault Catholic repeat their success, or does Jersey have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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