The McConnellsburg Spartans will head out on the road to square off against the Shalom Christian Academy Flames at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. McConnellsburg is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 6.6 goals per game this season.
McConnellsburg's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. They put the hurt on Mount Union with a sharp 5-0 win. Considering the Spartans have won nine contests by more than three goals this season, Monday's blowout was nothing new.
Their offense was hitting Mount Union from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Meanwhile, Shalom Christian Academy had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2.5 goals) and they went ahead and made it three on Monday. They came out on top in a nail-biter against the Monarch , sneaking past 1-0. Given the Flames' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 80th, while the Monarch are ranked 492nd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
McConnellsburg is on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 12 games, which provided a nice bump to their 13-2-1 record this season. As for Shalom Christian Academy, their victory bumped their record up to 11-4-1.
McConnellsburg suffered a grim 5-2 defeat to Shalom Christian Academy in their previous meeting back in September of 2023. Can McConnellsburg avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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