The McDowell Trojans will face off against the Fairview Tigers at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Fairview is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 5.5 goals per game this season.
McDowell is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to eight goals on Tuesday, they were much more limited against Cathedral Prep on Wednesday. They fell just short of the Ramblers by a score of 2-1. While losing is never fun, McDowell can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 121st, while Cathedral Prep are ranked tenth).
Meanwhile, Fairview waltzed into their game on Tuesday with three straight wins...and they left with four. Their defense stepped up to hand the Falcons a 7-0 shutout. That's two games straight in which Fairview have won by exactly seven goals.
Fairview has now won six of their last seven games at home. That somehow still isn't as good as their 10-1 record this season. As for McDowell, they moved to 4-2 with that loss, which also ended their four-game winning streak.
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