Soccer Preview: Pace Academy vs. Woodward Academy
Pace Academy has been on the road for two straight, but on Thursday they'll finally head home. They will take on the Woodward Academy War Eagles at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. Pace Academy is strutting in with some offensive muscle, as they've averaged 6.2 goals per game this season.
Pace Academy's game two weeks ago was all tied up 2-2 at the half, but sadly for them it didn't stay that way. They fell just short of Lovett by a score of 4-3. While losing is never fun, Pace Academy can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Georgia soccer rankings (they are ranked 63rd, while Lovett is ranked eighth).
Pace Academy hit Lovett with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Harper Auchincloss,
Drew Martin, and
Alexa Ibarra.
Meanwhile, Woodward Academy put the finishing touches on their eighth blowout victory of the season on Monday. They never let Jonesboro onto the board and left with a 12-0 victory. While fans of Woodward Academy might be used to big wins, the 12-goal margin marked the team's biggest win yet this season.
Pace Academy's loss ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 10-4-1. As for Woodward Academy, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-3 record this season.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
