The North Central Panthers will challenge the Hamilton Southeastern Royals at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. Neither squad made it on the board the last time they hit the pitch, so they've probably got a bit of extra motivation.
Hamilton Southeastern is facing North Central at the wrong time: North Central suffered their first home loss of the season on Wednesday and they're likely out for redemption. They fell 2-0 to the Fighting Irish. While losing is never fun, the Panthers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Indiana soccer rankings (they are ranked 93rd, while the Fighting Irish are ranked 18th).
Meanwhile, Hamilton Southeastern hasn't lost a match yet, a trend which continued in their latest game on Friday. Their defense stepped up to hand Plainfield a 1-0 shutout. The Royals' winning goal came courtesy of Cole Lance.
This is the second loss in a row for North Central and nudges their season record down to 1-3-1. As for Hamilton Southeastern, their victory bumped their record up to 7-0-1.
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