The Ankeny Hawks will head out on the road to square off against the Southeast Polk Rams at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Neither Ankeny nor Southeast Polk posted many goals in their last games, so it might be the defenses that decide this one.
In their second game on Saturday, Ankeny faced Ames in a battle between two of the state's top teams. Ankeny's defense stepped up to hand Ames a 1-0 shutout.
Meanwhile, Southeast Polk unfortunately witnessed the end of their six-game winning streak on Friday. They fell just short of Northwest by a score of 1-0. Southeast Polk has not had much luck with Northwest recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
Ankeny's victory bumped their record up to 6-4. As for Southeast Polk, their loss ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 6-1.
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