The Southwestern Piasa Birds will head out on the road to square off against the Mater Dei Knights at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Neither Southwestern nor Mater Dei posted many goals in their last games, so it might be the defenses that decide this one.
Southwestern's offense might be in the hot seat on Wednesday considering what happened against Highland on Tuesday. They lost 7-0 to the Bulldogs. While losing is never fun, Southwestern can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 353rd, while Highland is ranked 155th).
Meanwhile, while it was all tied up 0-0 at halftime, Mater Dei was not quite Althoff Catholic's equal in the second half on Tuesday. They lost 3-0 to the Crusaders. Mater Dei has not had much luck with Althoff Catholic recently, as the team's come up short the last seven times they've met.
Southwestern's loss dropped their record down to 6-14. As for Mater Dei, their defeat ended a five-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 9-7.
Southwestern suffered a grim 7-0 defeat to Mater Dei in their previous matchup back in March. Can Southwestern avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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