The Rocky River Pirates will venture away from home to challenge the Cloverleaf Colts at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Rocky River is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 4 goals per game this season.
Rocky River will head out to face Cloverleaf after giving up their first home loss of the season on Wednesday. Rocky River fell just short of Westlake by a score of 2-1. Having soared to a lofty five goals in the game before, the Pirates couldn't push the score so high this time.
Their goal came courtesy of
Stephen Cain, which was the first he's scored this season.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Cloverleaf). Their defense stepped up to hand Lorain a 10-0 shutout on Wednesday. Considering the Colts have won four games by more than four goals this season, Wednesday's blowout was nothing new.
Something new happened on Wednesday as Noah Lindenmuth saw his first action of the season, playing 40 minutes against Lorain. Lindenmuth 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.
The loss snapped Rocky River's winning streak at three games and leaves them with a 3-1 record. As for Cloverleaf, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 5-0-1.
Rocky River beat Cloverleaf 2-0 in their previous matchup back in September of 2023. The rematch might be a little tougher for Rocky River since the squad won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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