The Center Grove Trojans will challenge the Cathedral Fighting Irish at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams are coming into the game red-hot, with Center Grove sitting on nine straight victories and Cathedral on four.
Center Grove's defense heads into the matchup hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. Everything went their way against Whiteland as Center Grove made off with a 6-0 win. The Trojans might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won seven contests by three goals or more this season.
Their offense was hitting Whiteland from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Niekos Whitney led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Meanwhile, Cathedral's game on Tuesday was all tied up 1-1 at the half, but luckily for them it didn't stay that way. They had just enough and edged Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory out 2-1. Given the Fighting Irish's advantage in MaxPreps' Indiana soccer rankings (they are ranked 11th, while the Braves are ranked 81st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Center Grove's victory bumped their record up to 9-0. As for Cathedral, their win bumped their record up to 5-2-1.
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