Sterling has enjoyed a three-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will head out to challenge the Galesburg Silver Streaks at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Sterling will roll into the contest after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up one goal on Thursday, then bounced right back against Kewanee on Saturday. Sterling put the hurt on Kewanee with a sharp 5-1 win. The high-scoring performance was a welcome turnaround for the Golden Warriors' offense, which had struggled in the games prior.
Meanwhile, Galesburg had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2 goals), and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. They never let the Raiders onto the board and left with a 3-0 victory. Given the Silver Streaks' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 113th, while the Raiders are ranked 394th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
The win snapped Sterling's losing streak at three games and leaves them with a 4-5-1 record. As for Galesburg, they have been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 5-2 record this season.
Sterling came up short against Galesburg when the teams last played back in September of 2023, falling 4-2. Can Sterling avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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