Effingham hasn't had much luck against Mahomet-Seymour recently, but that could start to change on Tuesday. The Effingham Hearts will head out to take on the Mahomet-Seymour Bulldogs at 5:00 p.m. Effingham is currently enjoying a perfect season and no doubt wants to keep things rolling.
If Mahomet-Seymour heads into halftime all tied up, they better play a good second half: that's when Effingham took over last week. Effingham never let Teutopolis onto the board and left with a 2-0 win on Monday. The Hearts' defense has been rock solid lately; the team hasn't given up a goal in their last three matchups.
Andrew Wagoner and
Maicol Sefton scored both of Effingham's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 38 goals.
Meanwhile, Mahomet-Seymour had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4.7 goals) and they went ahead and made it four on Monday. They put the hurt on the Railsplitters with a sharp 5-2 victory. Given the Bulldogs' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 139th, while the Railsplitters are ranked 366th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Effingham pushed their record up to 11-0 with the win, which was their seventh straight at home. As for Mahomet-Seymour, they have been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six games, which provided a massive bump to their 6-4-1 record this season.
Effingham suffered a grim 4-1 defeat to Mahomet-Seymour in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Effingham was down 4-1.
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