Harrison has won five straight games at home, while Northwest has won five straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Thursday. The Harrison Wildcats will welcome the Northwest Knights at 7:00 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Harrison's defense heads into the matchup hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. Everything went their way against Talawanda as Harrison made off with a 7-0 win. The Wildcats' defense has been rock solid lately; the team hasn't given up a goal in their last six contests.
Their offense was hitting Talawanda from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Logan Wagner led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Northwest). They blew past Aiken 14-1 on Monday. The game was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 5-1.
Harrison's victory bumped their record up to 10-0-1. As for Northwest, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matches, which provided a nice bump to their 8-1-1 record this season.
Harrison took their win against Northwest in their previous meeting on September 5th by a conclusive 5-0. Will Harrison repeat their success, or does Northwest have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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