The Smithville Smithies will take on the Rootstown Rovers at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday.
Smithville fell victim to Norwayne and their airtight defense on Tuesday. They fell just short of the Bobcats by a score of 1-0.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Rootstown). They never let Garfield get on the board and left with a 12-0 victory on Monday. Rootstown might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won nine matches by three goals or more this season.
Their offense was hitting Garfield from everywhere, as eight different players booted in a goal. Zach Pastor led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for three goals all by himself.
Rootstown is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last ten contests. That's provided a nice bump to their 10-3-1 record this season. Those wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 54 goals over those ten matchups. As for Smithville, their defeat was their first in the conference, dropping their conference record down to 5-1-2 and their overall record down to 7-2-4.
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