The Carlisle Thundering Herd will head out to challenge the Cedar Cliff Colts at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Carlisle has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the matchup with three straight defeats, while Cedar Cliff will come in with three straight wins.
Carlisle lost 6-1 to Mechanicsburg on Monday. While losing is never fun, Carlisle can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 211th, while Mechanicsburg are ranked fourth).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Cedar Cliff). They blew past Reading 8-0 on Saturday. The team's explosion on offense also rewarded Cedar Cliff with their most commanding win of the season.
Cedar Cliff was without their leading scorer, Taylor Spamer, in Saturday's contest. With Spamer sidelined, the Colts had to make some changes to the lineup. And. Elizabeth Han made the most of the opportunity, scoring a goal A few more games like that and she might be seeing even more time going forward.
Carlisle's loss dropped their record down to 2-9. As for Cedar Cliff, the victory got them back to even at 7-7-1.
Carlisle couldn't quite get it done against Cedar Cliff in their previous matchup on September 9th as they fell 2-0. Can the Thundering Herd avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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