The Mentor Cardinals will head out to take on the Perry Pirates at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Mentor has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the game with three straight losses, while Perry will come in with three straight victories.
Last Saturday, Mentor didn't have quite enough to beat Mayfield and fell 2-1.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Perry). Everything went their way against Lakeside on Tuesday as Perry made off with a 9-2 win. Given the Pirates' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio soccer rankings (they are ranked 148th, while the Dragons are ranked 374th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Mentor's defeat dropped their record down to 3-3-1. As for Perry, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 5-1-1 record this season.
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