The Newton Falls Tigers will head out on the road to challenge the Girard Indians at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday.
Newton Falls' offense might be in the hot seat on Saturday considering what happened against United on Thursday. They lost 9-0 to the Golden Eagles. While losing is never fun, the Tigers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio soccer rankings (they are ranked 407th, while the Golden Eagles are ranked 77th).
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Girard). Their defense stepped up to hand Liberty a 10-0 shutout last Thursday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.
Newton Falls' defeat dropped their record down to 2-4. As for Girard, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 3-1-1.
Newton Falls suffered a grim 13-2 defeat to Girard when the teams last played back in August of 2023. That match was all but decided by halftime, at which point Newton Falls was down 6-1.
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