The Northlake Christian Wolverines will venture away from home to square off against the Loyola College Prep Flyers at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Northlake Christian can't be to happy about their upcoming road match considering what happened when they opened their season on the away from home on Friday. They fell just short of Calvary Baptist Academy by a score of 1-0. The matchup was a 0-0 toss-up at halftime, but the Wolverines couldn't quite close it out.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Loyola College Prep). Their defense stepped up to hand Pope John Paul II a 5-0 shutout on Friday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.
Northlake Christian came up short against Loyola College Prep when the teams last played back in February of 2019, falling 2-0. Can Northlake Christian avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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