Soccer Preview: East Duplin vs. North Lenoir
The East Duplin Panthers will head out to challenge the North Lenoir Hawks at 6:00 p.m. on Monday. East Duplin is looking to tack on another W to their five-game streak on the road.
East Duplin will bounce into Monday's match after beating James Kenan, who they had gone 2-7 against in their nine prior meetings. East Duplin narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past James Kenan 2-1. The Panthers found success even though the refs didn't miss a thing: Luis Ramirez and Marvin Sanchez were both handed yellow cards.
Yoskar Canales and
Orlando Rodriguez scored both of East Duplin's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 20 goals.
Meanwhile, North Lenoir didn't have quite enough to beat Wallace-Rose Hill on Wednesday and fell 3-2. While losing is never fun, the Hawks can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 275th, while the Bulldogs are ranked 47th).
East Duplin is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a massive bump to their 10-5-1 record this season. As for North Lenoir, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 7-10.
East Duplin skirted past North Lenoir 2-1 when the teams last played back in September. The rematch might be a little tougher for East Duplin 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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