Elkhorn is 9-1 against Blair since April of 2016, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Tuesday. The Elkhorn Antlers will head out on the road to square off against the Blair Bears at 7:00 p.m. Both teams are coming into the game red-hot, with Elkhorn sitting on four straight wins and Blair on ten.
Elkhorn stacked a fourth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Monday. Their defense stepped up to hand Lincoln Northwest a 5-0 shutout. That's two games straight that Elkhorn has won by exactly five goals.
They hit Lincoln Northwest with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Olivia Thompson (2),
adriana pagan (2), and
Molly Flynn.
Meanwhile, Blair's game on Monday was all tied up 0-0 at the half, but luckily for them it didn't stay that way. They came out on top against Waverly by a score of 2-0. Given Blair's advantage in MaxPreps' Nebraska soccer rankings (they are ranked sixth, while Waverly is ranked 47th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Elkhorn is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 8-3 record this season. As for Blair, they pushed their record up to 10-0 with that victory, which was their sixth straight at home.
Everything went Elkhorn's way against Blair when the teams last played back in April of 2023 as Elkhorn made off with a 4-0 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for Elkhorn since the team won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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