The Southern Lehigh Spartans are taking a road trip to challenge the Northwestern Lehigh Tigers at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the game red-hot, with Southern Lehigh sitting on four straight victories and Northwestern Lehigh on eight.
Southern Lehigh's defense heads into the matchup hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. They put the hurt on Catasauqua with a sharp 6-0 win. Given the Spartans' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 100th, while the Rough Riders are ranked 445th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, everything went Northwestern Lehigh's way against Pen Argyl on Thursday as Northwestern Lehigh made off with a 9-1 victory. The match was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 7-0.
Northwestern Lehigh's offense was hitting Pen Argyl from everywhere, as six different players booted in a goal.
Jacob Van Lierop led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for three goals all by himself.
Southern Lehigh pushed their record up to 6-1-1 with that win, which was their third straight on the road. As for Northwestern Lehigh, their victory bumped their record up to 8-0.
Southern Lehigh might still be hurting after the 3-0 defeat they got from Northwestern Lehigh in their previous matchup back in October of 2023. Can Southern Lehigh avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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