The South Garner Titans will head out on the road to challenge the Fuquay - Varina Bengals at 6:30 p.m. on Monday.
South Garner fought the good fight in their overtime match against Garner on Wednesday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Trojans by a score of 2-1. While losing is never fun, South Garner can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 313th, while Garner are ranked 156th).
South Garner's goal came courtesy of Antonio LLanos, which was the first he's scored this season.
Meanwhile, Fuquay - Varina had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2.7 goals) and they went ahead and made it four on Wednesday. They came within a single goal of losing the streak, but they secured a 2-1 W against the Spartans. The game got a bit rough at times, as the refs handed out a total of three yellow cards before it was all over: Fuquay - Varina's Kyson Jordan and Smithfield-Selma's Yasir Guillen and Cooper Harris were all carded.
Fuquay - Varina's win bumped their record up to 11-6-3. As for South Garner, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 6-13-2.
South Garner couldn't quite get it done against Fuquay - Varina in their previous meeting on October 1st as they fell 4-2. Can the Titans avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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