Canterbury Blanks Tigers
FORT WAYNE – The Warsaw boys soccer team started a challenging week Tuesday night with a loss at Fort Wayne Canterbury.
The hosts, ranked No. 5 in Class 2-A, blanked the Tigers 3-0.
Canterbury scored a pair of goals in the first 20 minutes of the match. The two scores came after Warsaw goalie Peyton Long was injured and knocked out of the game in the first minute of the contest.
Long did return to the game in the first half for the Tigers.
Canterbury improves to 10-1-1 on the season.
Canterbury won the junior varsity match 4-0.
Warsaw, which falls to 6-2-5 on the season, will play at No. 15 Goshen Thursday night in Northern Lakes Conference action. The junior varsity match will begin at 5 p.m. at Goshen High School with the varsity title to follow.
The Tigers are 2-1-1 in the NLC, while Goshen improved to 5-0 in league play Tuesday night with a 1-0 home win over Wawasee. The Redskins, who claimed the NLC title in 2013, are 9-1-1 overall on the season.
Warsaw will finish out the week by hosting NLC foe and county rival Wawasee on Saturday at WCHS.