The Indianapolis Shortridge Blue Devils will challenge the Cathedral Fighting Irish at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday. Neither team made it on the board the last time they hit the pitch, so they've probably got a bit of extra motivation.
Indianapolis Shortridge lost 7-1 to Pike on Thursday. While losing is never fun, the Blue Devils can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Indiana soccer rankings (they are ranked 126th, while the Red Devils are ranked 37th).
Indianapolis Shortridge's goal came courtesy of
Cesar Suarez, who's now up to 29 this season.
Meanwhile, Cathedral had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4.5 goals) and they went ahead and made it three on Wednesday. Their defense stepped up to hand the Trojans a 1-0 shutout. One seems to be a good number for the Fighting Irish as the squad scooped up a victory with the same number of goals in their previous game.
Indianapolis Shortridge's loss ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 8-5-1. As for Cathedral, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 12-3-2 record this season.
Indianapolis Shortridge suffered a grim 8-0 defeat to Cathedral in their previous meeting back in September of 2017. Can Indianapolis Shortridge avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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