Howland has enjoyed a three-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will head out to face off against the Canfield Cardinals at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Howland is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 5.6 goals per game this season.
Last Wednesday, Howland made easy work of Austintown-Fitch and carried off a 4-1 win. The Tigers might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won ten matchups by three goals or more this season.
They hit Austintown-Fitch with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Ava Yannucci (2),
Ava Boothe, and Boothe.
Meanwhile, Canfield had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2 goals) and they went ahead and made it six on Wednesday. They never let the Spartans onto the board and left with a 2-0 victory. Given the Cardinals' advantage in MaxPreps' Ohio soccer rankings (they are ranked 46th, while the Spartans are ranked 246th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Howland pushed their record up to 11-2 with the win, which was their fifth straight at home. As for Canfield, their victory bumped their record up to an identical 11-2.
Everything went Howland's way against Canfield when the teams last played on September 11th, as Howland made off with a 4-0 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for Howland since the squad won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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