The Butler Bulldogs will be playing at home against the East Mecklenburg Eagles at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Butler is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 5.3 goals per game this season.
Butler is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to ten goals on Tuesday, they were much more limited against Providence on Thursday. They fell just short of the Panthers by a score of 2-1. Butler has not had much luck with Providence recently, as the team's come up short the last seven times they've met.
Butler's goal came courtesy of
Kennedy Makuch, who's now up to 22 this season.
Meanwhile, East Mecklenburg had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 54.5 goals), and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They walked away with a 3-1 win over the Panthers. The victory was all the more spectacular given East Mecklenburg's disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 224th, while Piedmont is ranked 108th).
Butler's loss dropped their record down to 8-8-3. As for East Mecklenburg, the win got them back to even at 9-9.
Butler beat East Mecklenburg 2-0 in their previous matchup back in April. Will Butler repeat their success, or does East Mecklenburg have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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