Preview: Cypress Bay vs. Doral Academy
The Cypress Bay Lightning will head out on the road to face off against the Doral Academy Firebirds at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Both teams beat their previous opponents by a single goal, so this matchup might be just as contested.
With a playoff game on the line, Cypress Bay rose to the challenge on Friday. Their defense stepped up to hand the Cavaliers a 1-0 shutout. One seems to be a good number for Cypress Bay as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of goals in their previous game.
Their one-goal win came courtesy of
Nicolas Preciado, which was the first he's scored this season.
Meanwhile, Doral Academy entered their tilt with Stoneman Douglas with seven consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with eight. Doral Academy won by a goal and slipped past Stoneman Douglas 1-0. Given Doral Academy's advantage in MaxPreps' Florida soccer rankings (they are ranked sixth, while Stoneman Douglas is ranked 65th), the result on Friday wasn't entirely unexpected.
Cypress Bay's win was their ninth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 16-3. Those victories were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 29 goals over those nine games. As for Doral Academy, they are on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten contests, which provided a nice bump to their 14-2-2 record this season.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
