The Civic Memorial Eagles will stay at home for another game and welcome the Mascoutah Indians at 5:35 p.m. on Thursday. Civic Memorial is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 5.1 goals per game this season.
Civic Memorial fought the good fight in their overtime match against Triad on Tuesday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Knights by a score of 3-2. While losing is never fun, Civic Memorial can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 103rd, while Triad is ranked 20th).
Delaney Griffin and
Abrianna Garrett scored both of Civic Memorial's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 45 goals.
Meanwhile, Mascoutah came tearing into Tuesday's contest with six straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.2 goals) and they left with even more momentum. Their defense stepped up to hand the Bulldogs a 1-0 shutout. That's two games straight that Mascoutah has won by just one goal.
Civic Memorial's loss ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 12-7-1. As for Mascoutah, they pushed their record up to 12-4-1 with that win, which was their sixth straight at home.
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