The Gulliver Prep Raiders will head out on the road to take on the East Ridge Knights at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are strolling into their matches after big wins in their previous games.
Gulliver Prep is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Florida's top teams: NSU University, who was ranked 18th at the time (Gulliver Prep was ranked third). Gulliver Prep's defense stepped up to hand NSU University a 5-0 shutout on Tuesday. The result was nothing new for the Raiders, who have now won seven contests by three goals or more so far this season.
Their offense was hitting NSU University from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Meanwhile, East Ridge's game on Thursday was close up to the half, which is when they kicked things up a notch. Everything went their way against Lake Minneola as East Ridge made off with a 4-1 win. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Knights considering their one-goal performance the matchup before.
East Ridge is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four contests, which provided a nice bump to their 5-4-2 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 20 goals over those four games. As for Gulliver Prep, the victory (which was their third in a row) raised their record to 8-1-1.
Gulliver Prep came out on top in a nail-biter against East Ridge in their previous matchup back in November of 2021, sneaking past 1-0. The rematch might be a little tougher for Gulliver Prep since the team won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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