Soccer Preview: Holly Springs vs. Green Level
After two games on the road, Holly Springs is heading back home. They will host the Green Level Gators at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Holly Springs is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.6 goals per game this season.
Holly Springs is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of North Carolina's top teams: Middle Creek, who was ranked 24th in their home state at the time (Holly Springs was ranked second). Holly Springs won by a goal and slipped past Middle Creek 3-2. The score was all tied up 2-2 at the break, but the Golden Hawks were the better team in the second half.
Sean O'Laughlin and
Santiago Collier scored all three of Holly Springs' goals, bringing their combined season tally to 33 goals.
Meanwhile, Green Level didn't have quite enough to beat Apex Friendship on Monday and fell 3-2. Things got a bit chippy out on the turf as both teams were handed red cards: the Gators' Jalen Gibbs and the Patriots' Caleb Farrell.
Holly Springs pushed their record up to 15-1 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road. As for Green Level, their defeat dropped their record down to 7-6-3.
Holly Springs was able to grind out a solid victory over Green Level in their previous meeting back in September, winning 5-3. Does Holly Springs have another victory up their sleeve, or will Green Level turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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