NILES — With the top spot in the Northeast 8 Conference at stake, the only two teams without a loss in league play met Monday evening, when Lakeview visited Bo Rein Stadium to face Niles.

The last time the Red Dragons took the pitch before Monday, they finished in a 1-1 draw with Girard, which snapped the seven-match win streak Niles had built to open the season.

The start of a new week, though, spawned the potential start of a new streak for the Dragons, who dominated possession and whose Kherington Stanford capitalized on more than a few chances to defeat the Bulldogs 6-1 and extended the program’s longest undefeated stretch to begin a season in at least a decade.

“I’m very proud of the girls,” Niles head coach Scott MacMillan said. “They showed up tonight, they shared the ball. It wa

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