Northwest hasn't had much luck against Harrison recently, but that could start to change on Thursday. The Northwest Knights will head out to square off against the Harrison Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Northwest sitting on five straight wins and Harrison on six.
Northwest is headed in fresh off scoring the most goals they have all season. Everything went their way against Aiken on Monday as Northwest made off with a 14-1 victory. Given the Knights' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio soccer rankings (they are ranked 146th, while the Falcons are ranked 461st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Harrison kept a clean sheet against Talawanda on Monday. They put the hurt on the Brave with a sharp 7-0 win. Give the Wildcats' defense some credit: that's the team's sixth straight shutout.
Their offense was hitting Talawanda from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Logan Wagner led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Northwest has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-1-1 record this season. As for Harrison, their victory was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 10-0-1.
Northwest suffered a grim 5-0 defeat to Harrison in their previous meeting on September 5th. Can Northwest avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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