The Portage Indians are on the road again on Thursday to play the Hobart Brickies at 5:00 p.m. Portage is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 4 goals per game this season.
Portage managed to keep up with Chesterton until halftime on Tuesday, but things quickly went downhill from there. Portage lost 6-1 to Chesterton. Having soared to a lofty four goals in the game before, the Indians couldn't push the score so high this time.
Their goal came courtesy of
Mali Kennedy, who's now up to 19 this season.
Meanwhile, Hobart had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.3 goals) and they went ahead and made it seven on Saturday. They never let the Lions onto the board and left with a 2-0 victory. Given the Brickies' advantage in MaxPreps' Indiana soccer rankings (they are ranked 42nd, while the Lions are ranked 133rd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
The loss snapped Portage's winning streak at five games and leaves them with a 5-5-3 record. As for Hobart, they are on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 13-2-1 record this season.
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