Soccer Preview: Kings Mountain vs. Crest
The Kings Mountain Mountaineers will head out on the road to challenge the Crest Chargers at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Kings Mountain is headed into the match fresh off scoring the most goals they have all season. They blew past Huss 5-1.
Kings Mountain hit Huss with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Mary Hogue (2),
Annabelle Wheeler,
Brooke Salvator, and
Karlie Pressley.
Meanwhile, Crest stacked a tenth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Tuesday. They put the hurt on Ashbrook with a sharp 10-1 win. Given Crest's advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 145th, while Ashbrook is ranked 438th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Kings Mountain's victory bumped their record up to 9-6-1. As for Crest, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 12 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 12-5 record this season.
Kings Mountain suffered a grim 5-2 defeat to Crest in their previous matchup back in April. Can Kings Mountain avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
