The North Pitt Panthers are on the road again on Tuesday to play the Northern Nash Knights at 6:00 p.m. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
It was a proper cat-fight when North Pitt challenged Farmville Central last Monday. North Pitt's defense stepped up to hand Farmville Central a 3-0 shutout. The score was all tied up 0-0 at the break, but the Panthers were the better team in the second half.
They hit Farmville Central with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Alexandro Martinez,
William Peralta, and
Luis Vicente.
Meanwhile, after failing to score in their last matchup, Northern Nash made sure to put some goals up on the board against Rocky Mount two weeks ago. Everything went their way against the Gryphons as they made off with a 9-1 win. The game got a bit rough at times, as the refs handed out a total of three yellow cards before it was all over: the Knights' Jayden Roberson and the Gryphons' Carter Swanner and Guliany Fernandez-Pineda were all carded.
Northern Nash used a slightly different lineup for their bout with Rocky Mount. Jovanni Torres played for 60 minutes having averaged 18.2 this season and Peyton Killebrew got 80 vs. an average of 27.4. Killebrew made the most of the opportunity, putting up an assist. A few more games like that and he might be seeing even more time going forward.
North Pitt has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six contests, which somehow still isn't as good as their 18-3-1 record this season. As for Northern Nash, their victory was their fourth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 9-5-3.
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