Soccer Preview: Gray Stone Day vs. Mount Pleasant
Gray Stone Day is 10-0 against Mount Pleasant since September of 2016, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Wednesday. The Gray Stone Day Knights will stay at home for another game and welcome the Mount Pleasant Tigers at 4:30 p.m. Gray Stone Day will be strutting in after a victory while Mount Pleasant will be coming in after a defeat.
If Mount Pleasant heads into halftime all tied up, they better play a good second half: that's when Gray Stone Day took over last week. Gray Stone Day had just enough and edged Salisbury out 2-1. The win was all the more spectacular given the Knights' disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 306th, while the Hornets are ranked 110th).
Anthony Varbanov was the driving force of Gray Stone Day's attack as he scored both of Gray Stone Day's goals, bringing his season total up to five goals.
Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when Mount Pleasant took on Union Academy on Wednesday. Mount Pleasant came up short against Union Academy, falling 5-0. The Tigers haven't had much luck with the Cardinals recently, as the team's come up short the last six times they've met.
Gray Stone Day's victory was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 5-3-4. As for Mount Pleasant, their loss dropped their record down to 2-10.
Everything went Gray Stone Day's way against Mount Pleasant when the teams last played back in September, as Gray Stone Day made off with a 9-0 win. Will Gray Stone Day repeat their success, or does Mount Pleasant have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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