A feisty cat fight will be fought when Tigers takes on the Franklin Regional Panthers at 5:45 p.m. on Saturday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Moon Area comes in on 23 and Franklin Regional on five.
Moon Area is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Monday. They beat Bethel Park by a goal, winning 3-2. Given the Tigers' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked third, while the Black Hawks are ranked 138th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Evan Thomas and
Zechariah Balbach scored all three of Moon Area's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 33 goals.
Mars typically has all the answers at home, but on Monday Franklin Regional proved too difficult a challenge. They skirted past the Fightin' Planets 2-1. That's two games straight that the Panthers have won by just one goal.
Moon Area's win bumped their record up to 23-0. As for Franklin Regional, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 16-3-1 record this season.
Moon Area beat Franklin Regional by a goal when the teams last played back in August of 2022, winning 3-2. Will Moon Area repeat their success, or does Franklin Regional have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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