After four games on the road, Quincy Notre Dame is heading back home. They will take on the Pleasant Plains/New Berlin Cardinals at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. Quincy Notre Dame will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Illinois Rankings (they are ranked 133rd, while Pleasant Plains/New Berlin is ranked 26th).
Quincy Notre Dame is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to five goals on Wednesday, they were much more limited against Quincy on Thursday. They fell just short of the Blue Devils by a score of 2-1. The loss continues a trend for Quincy Notre Dame in their matchups with Quincy: they've now lost four in a row.
Meanwhile, Pleasant Plains/New Berlin entered their tilt with Carlinville with 16 consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with 17. Their defense stepped up to hand the Cavaliers an 8-0 shutout on Thursday. The result was nothing new for Pleasant Plains/New Berlin, who have now won 17 games by three goals or more so far this season.
Their offense was hitting Carlinville from everywhere, as seven different players booted in a goal.
Bailey Leach led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by herself.
Quincy Notre Dame now has a losing record at 10-11. As for Pleasant Plains/New Berlin, they pushed their record up to 21-1 with that win, which was their ninth straight at home.
Quincy Notre Dame might still be hurting after the 5-2 defeat they got from Pleasant Plains/New Berlin when the teams last played back in April of 2023. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Quincy Notre Dame was down 3-0.
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