The Evansville Memorial Tigers will challenge the McCracken County Mustangs at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. Evansville Memorial is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 4.3 goals per game this season.
Evansville Memorial is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another highly-ranked state team: Trinity, who was ranked first at the time (Evansville Memorial was ranked eighth). Evansville Memorial fell just short of Trinity by a score of 2-1 on Saturday. The Tigers were red-hot offensively headed into the match (they scored no less than four goals in the five games prior) but the Shamrocks' defense proved too tough.
Evansville Memorial's goal came courtesy of
Luke Martin, which was the first he's scored this season.
Meanwhile, McCracken County kept a clean sheet against St. Mary on Tuesday. They blew past the Vikings 8-0. The Mustangs might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three contests by five goals or more this season.
The loss snapped Evansville Memorial's winning streak at five games and leaves them with a 5-1 record. As for McCracken County, the victory also got them back to even at 3-3-1.
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