On Thursday, Oct. 8, the top ranked Franklin Indians kept their win streak alive, Pikesville Panthers 6-2. Entering the game, Franklin, sitting at 8-0, had outscored their opponents 72-5, with a statement win at home against Parkville, beating the team that sat undefeated this time last season eight to nothing. Additionally, Pikesville entered having not lost a game, rather tying 1-1 against Hereford on opening night. The battle of the unbeaten went down at Pikesville’s Boushell Field. Throughout the season, the Indians averaged 8.25 goals per game, a feat they looked to be ready to continue early. Franklin opened up the scoring with a goal in the seventh minute, coming after a pass from the right corner of the penalty box into the middle of the box before the shot. With 30 seconds left in the half, Franklin tacked on another goal, coming on a shot from the top of the box into the top right corner of the net, giving the Indians a 2-0 lead at the break. In the second half, the Indians’ offense exploded. Just three minutes into the half, Franklin took a corner, and after the ball was batted around inside the six-yard box, the ball rolled into the bottom right corner of the net for the score. Three and a half minutes later, in the 47th minute, the Indians scored again on a corner kick, again into the bottom right corner. In the 55th, Franklin has the ball in the corner of the penalty box, and Pikesville’s goalkeeper charged at the ball, but the Franklin forward floated the ball over the Panther keeper’s head for the team’s fifth goal. Three minutes later, Pikesville put their first goal on the board, coming on a penalty shot into the bottom left corner, seemingly tipping off the hand of Franklin’s keeper. That goal made it a 5-1 game with 20 minutes to play. With less than three minutes to go, Franklin took a free kick and curled it into the bottom left of the let, around Pikesville’s wall. Pikesville responded to this one, scoring a goal inside the six-yard box with 58.7 seconds left in the game, cementing the contest’s final score of 6-2 in favor of the Indians. Franklin, now 9-0, will return to action on Tuesday at Western Tech while Pikesville, now 6-1-1, faces the Patterson Clippers on Monday.