Soccer Preview: Grant Community vs. Lakes
Grant Community is 0-8 against Lakes since April of 2015 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Thursday. The Grant Community Bulldogs will head out on the road to face off against the Lakes Eagles at 6:30 p.m. Grant Community will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Illinois Rankings (they are ranked 290th, while Lakes is ranked 65th).
Grant Community is is headed into Thursday's match looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their seventh straight game on Tuesday. They lost 4-0 to Round Lake.
Meanwhile, Lakes had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.4 goals), and they went ahead and made it six on Tuesday. They came out on top against the Knights by a score of 4-2. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for Lakes considering their one-goal performance the contest before.
Grant Community's loss dropped their record down to 3-12-1. As for Lakes, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 10-4-1 record this season.
Grant Community might still be hurting after the 5-1 defeat they got from Lakes when the teams last played back in May of 2023. Can Grant Community avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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