Soccer Preview: Maple Grove vs. Champlin Park
The Maple Grove Crimson will challenge the Champlin Park Rebels at 4:30 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the contest red-hot, with Maple Grove sitting on six straight victories and Champlin Park on three.
Maple Grove's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. They blew past Osseo 6-0. Considering the Crimson have won five games by more than two goals this season, Wednesday's blowout was nothing new.
Meanwhile, it can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Champlin Park had no problem doing just that on Tuesday. Everything went their way against the Orioles as they made off with a 5-0 win. The Rebels' winning goal came courtesy of Sophie Blanchette.
Maple Grove has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 10-2-2 record this season. As for Champlin Park, their victory bumped their record up to 4-8-3.
Maple Grove skirted past Champlin Park 1-0 in their previous matchup back in September. Will Maple Grove repeat their success, or does Champlin Park have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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