The Henderson County Colonels will venture away from home to challenge the Elizabethtown Panthers at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Henderson County is headed into the game having not lost since August 24 and will look to keep things rolling. They never let Evansville Mater Dei onto the board and left with an 8-0 victory on Thursday. Given the Colonels' advantage in MaxPreps' soccer rankings in their respective home states (they are ranked 19th in Kentucky, while the Wildcats are ranked 147th in Indiana), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Henderson County's offense was hitting Evansville Mater Dei from everywhere, as six different players booted in a goal.
Cole Branson led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Elizabethtown). Everything went their way against Fort Knox on Thursday as Elizabethtown made off with an 8-0 win. The victory was nothing new for the Panthers as they're now sitting on seven straight.
Henderson County is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 8-2-4 record this season. As for Elizabethtown, they pushed their record up to 11-2-1 with the win, which was their fourth straight on the road.
Henderson County came up short against Elizabethtown when the teams last played back in October of 2021, falling 2-0. Can Henderson County avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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