The Jersey Panthers will challenge the Pleasant Plains/New Berlin Cardinals at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Jersey will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Illinois Rankings (they are ranked 254th, while Pleasant Plains/New Berlin is ranked 29th).
Last Monday, Jersey and Jacksonville finished up on equal footing with a 2-2 draw.
Annie Hansen was the only thing that stood between Jersey and a shutout considering she scored both of Jersey's goals, her season total up to ten goals.
Meanwhile, Pleasant Plains/New Berlin had already won 17 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.6 goals), and they went ahead and made it 18 on Monday. They never let the Raiders onto the board and left with a 2-0 win. Pleasant Plains/New Berlin's defense has been rock solid lately; the team hasn't given up a goal in their last three matches.
With that draw, Jersey's record moves to 5-12-4. As for Pleasant Plains/New Berlin, they pushed their record up to 22-1 with that victory, which was their eighth straight on the road.
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