On Aug. 29 the men’s soccer team travels to Zionsville to take on the state’s Number-2 ranked team at 7 p.m. This match comes just a week after the Hounds walked away from their road match against Homestead, the Number-3 team in the state at the time, with a 7-1 victory. Defender and senior Jake Romine said he believes that if his team can duplicate its effort from the game at Homestead, they should be able to take care of business against the Eagles. 

“It’ll be interesting, I think we can win the game if we play as well as we did against Homestead,” Romine said. “What worked out for us versus Homestead was that we were all ready for that game after a long week of practice, we came out to a fast start, and really set the tone right away.”

Although facing two of the state’s top teams two weeks in a row sounds tough, that may not even be the worst stretch of the Hounds’ schedule. The team must play on the road on Sept. 26 against the club that opened the season ranked Number-1, Evansville Memorial, and in addition the team has a three game home stand in the span of a week where they play three teams that all started the season ranked in the top ten—Noblesville on Sept. 10, Ft. Wayne Canterbury on Sept. 12 and North Central on Sept. 16.

“We played the third-ranked team last weekend and now we play the second-ranked team this weekend, and our schedule really doesn’t get too much easier in all honesty,” Head Coach Shane Schmidt said. “We’re all ready for it and excited and getting prepared.” By Andrew Browning <[email protected]>