Soccer Preview: East Duplin vs. Wallace-Rose Hill
The East Duplin Panthers will take on the Wallace-Rose Hill Bulldogs at 6:00 p.m. on Monday. Both teams are coming into the game red-hot, with East Duplin sitting on seven straight wins and Wallace-Rose Hill on six.
Last Wednesday, East Duplin sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 2-1 victory over South Lenoir. Given the Panthers' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 121st, while the Blue Devils are ranked 275th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Yoskar Canales was the driving force of East Duplin's attack as he scored both of East Duplin's goals, bringing his season total up to 18 goals.
Meanwhile, Wallace-Rose Hill kept a clean sheet against Kinston on Wednesday. They beat the Vikings by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 1-0. Give the Bulldogs' defense some credit: that's the team's third straight shutout.
East Duplin is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine matches, which provided a nice bump to their 12-5-1 record this season. As for Wallace-Rose Hill, they pushed their record up to 17-2-2 with the win, which was their third straight on the road.
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