The Civic Memorial Eagles will venture away from home to square off against the Althoff Catholic Crusaders at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. The teams are rolling into the game with opposing streaks: Civic Memorial has struggled recently with three defeats in a row, while Althoff Catholic will arrive with nine straight wins.
Civic Memorial managed to keep up with Mascoutah until halftime on Thursday, but things quickly went downhill from there. Civic Memorial lost 3-0 to Mascoutah. While losing is never fun, the Eagles can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 250th, while the Indians are ranked 100th).
Meanwhile, with a playoff game on the line, Althoff Catholic rose to the challenge on Tuesday. They were the clear victor by a 7-1 margin over the Purple Panthers. The Crusaders might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won 11 matches by three goals or more this season.
They hit Litchfield with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Tyler Pollock (2),
Nate Pitre (2),
Tyler Birdsong (2), and
Josh Meyer.
Civic Memorial's loss dropped their record down to 10-15. As for Althoff Catholic, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 14 of their last 15 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 20-4 record this season.
Civic Memorial might still be hurting after the 8-1 defeat they got from Althoff Catholic in their previous matchup back in September. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Civic Memorial was down 5-1.
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