Soccer Preview: Sun Valley vs. Grimsley
The Sun Valley Spartans are taking a road trip to take on the Grimsley Whirlies at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Sun Valley didn't have quite enough to beat Carmel Christian and fell 3-2. While losing is never fun, the Spartans can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 380th, while the Cougars are ranked 163rd).
Meanwhile, Grimsley didn't have done well against R.J. Reynolds recently (they were 0-6-1 in their previous seven matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Wednesday. Grimsley narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past R.J. Reynolds 3-2. Even though the Whirlies got in a bit of trouble with the refs ( Siddig Mohamed was handed a red card), the team managed to overcome the adversity.
Grimsley hit R.J. Reynolds with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Zuberi Iddi,
Robbie Reeves, and
Tate Peel.
Sun Valley's loss dropped their record down to 2-7-1. As for Grimsley, their win bumped their record up to 4-2-1.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
