The Borah Lions will venture away from home to take on the Eagle Mustangs at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday.
Borah is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Idaho's top teams: Rocky Mountain, who was ranked 14th in their home state at the time (Borah was ranked ninth). Borah fell just short of Rocky Mountain by a score of 1-0 on Tuesday. The matchup was a 0-0 toss-up at halftime, but the Lions couldn't quite close it out.
Meanwhile, Eagle entered their tilt with Meridian on Tuesday with four consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with five. They walked away with a 4-2 win over the Warriors. Given the Mustangs' advantage in MaxPreps' Idaho soccer rankings (they are ranked sixth, while the Warriors are ranked 62nd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Eagle hit Meridian with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Matt Macner (2),
Josiah Pettit, and
Lucas Boockholdt.
Borah's defeat dropped their record down to 3-3-1. As for Eagle, their victory was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 6-1-1.
Borah was able to grind out a solid win over Eagle when the teams last played back in October of 2023, winning 3-1. Will Borah repeat their success, or does Eagle have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
