The Spencerville Bearcats will venture away from home to challenge the Botkins Trojans at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday. Botkins is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.8 goals per game this season.
Spencerville is headed out hoping to continue their success from last week, when they picked up their first road win of the season last Thursday. They walked away with a 3-1 victory over Jackson Center.
Meanwhile, Botkins came tearing into Thursday's matchup with five straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4.4 goals), and they left with even more momentum. They never let the Redskins get on the board and left with a 4-0 win. Give Botkins' defense some credit: that's the team's fourth straight shutout.
Botkins has now won six of their last eight games on the road. That gives them a 6-2 record this season. The road victories came by way of their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 26 goals over those eight contests. As for Spencerville, their win (their first of the season) made their record 1-8-1.
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