A feisty cat fight will be fought when Panthers challenges the Moon Area Tigers at 5:45 p.m. on Saturday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Franklin Regional comes in on five and Moon Area on 23.
Franklin Regional can't be too worried about heading out to take on Moon Area: they just beat Mars at home, who had been dominant on their own pitch up to that point. Franklin Regional had just enough and edged Mars out 2-1 on Monday. That's two games straight that the Panthers have won by just one goal.
Meanwhile, with a playoff game on the line, Moon Area rose to the challenge on Monday. They beat the Black Hawks 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.
Franklin Regional's win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 16-3-1. As for Moon Area, their record is now 23-0.
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