The Hamilton Township Rangers are taking a road trip to take on the Lakewood Lancers at 6:00 p.m. on Monday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Hamilton Township has five straight wins, Lakewood has five straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Hamilton Township's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Saturday. They blew past Amanda-Clearcreek 5-0. Given the Rangers' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio soccer rankings (they are ranked 245th, while the Aces are ranked 507th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Lakewood managed to keep up with River Valley until halftime on Saturday, but things quickly went downhill from there. Lakewood lost 5-0 to River Valley.
Hamilton Township's victory bumped their record up to 5-1-1. As for Lakewood, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-5.
Everything went Hamilton Township's way against Lakewood in their previous matchup back in October of 2015 as Hamilton Township made off with a 4-0 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for Hamilton Township since the team won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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