The Gibault Catholic Hawks will challenge the Althoff Catholic Crusaders at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Gibault Catholic will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more goals each matchup than the last.
Gibault Catholic is headed in fresh off scoring the most goals they have all season. They put the hurt on Southwestern with a sharp 10-6 win on Monday. The score was close at the half, but the Hawks pulled away in the second half with six goals.
Their offense was hitting Southwestern from everywhere, as seven different players booted in a goal.
Grady Frierdrich led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Meanwhile, Althoff Catholic had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.7 goals) and they went ahead and made it four on Tuesday. They never let the Lions onto the board and left with a 2-0 victory. Given the Crusaders' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 40th, while the Lions are ranked 228th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Gibault Catholic's win bumped their record up to 6-10. As for Althoff Catholic, they pushed their record up to 15-4 with the victory, which was their ninth straight on the road.
Gibault Catholic might still be hurting after the 9-2 loss they got from Althoff Catholic when the teams last played back in October of 2023. Will Gibault Catholic have more luck at home instead of on the road? Check MaxPreps after the action for a full breakdown of the game and more soccer content.
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