Soccer Preview: Gray Stone Day vs. South Stanly
Gray Stone Day has gone 10-0 against South Stanly recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Wednesday. The Gray Stone Day Knights will challenge the South Stanly Rowdy Rebel Bulls at 6:00 p.m. Gray Stone Day is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 4.1 goals per game this season.
Gray Stone Day's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. They blew past Albemarle 6-0. Considering the Knights have won six contests by more than four goals this season, Monday's blowout was nothing new.
Their offense was hitting Albemarle from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Jackson Cotoni led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Meanwhile, Monday just wasn't the day for South Stanly's offense. They lost 9-0 to Union Academy on Monday. While losing is never fun, the Rowdy Rebel Bulls can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 559th, while the Cardinals are ranked 267th).
Gray Stone Day has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 10-4-4 record this season. As for South Stanly, they dropped their record down to 3-10-1 with the loss, which was their fourth straight on the road.
Everything went Gray Stone Day's way against South Stanly when the teams last played back in September, as Gray Stone Day made off with a 9-0 victory. The rematch might be a little tougher for Gray Stone Day since the team won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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