Soccer Preview: Myers Park vs. Garinger
Myers Park has gone 8-1-1 against Garinger recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Thursday. The Myers Park Mustangs will challenge the Garinger Wildcats. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Myers Park is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They never let Hickory Ridge onto the board and left with a 3-0 victory. The Mustangs are really starting to get used to good results now that the team has won 11 straight.
They hit Hickory Ridge with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Beni Sibu,
Vlad Grigoryan, and
Aidan Wilson.
Meanwhile, Garinger came tearing into Tuesday's match with five straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.4 goals) and they left with even more momentum. They put the hurt on the Blue Devils with a sharp 6-0 win. Given the Wildcats' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 16th, while the Blue Devils are ranked 67th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Garinger pushed their record up to 20-4-1 with the victory, which was their 11th straight at home. Those victories were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 53 goals over those 11 games. As for Myers Park, their win bumped their record up to 18-0-2.
Myers Park beat Garinger by a goal when the teams last played back in September, winning 2-1. The rematch might be a little tougher for Myers Park 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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