The Ballantyne Ridge Wolves will square off against the Palisades Pumas at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The timing is sure in Ballantyne Ridge's favor as the team sits on four straight wins at home while Palisades has been banged up by four consecutive losses on the road.
Ballantyne Ridge's defense heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. Everything went their way against South Iredell as they made off with a 3-0 win. Ballantyne Ridge might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won seven matches by three goals or more this season.
Meanwhile, while it was all tied up 0-0 at halftime, Palisades was not quite Hough's equal in the second half on Tuesday. They came up short against the Huskies, falling 3-0. While losing is never fun, Palisades can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 184th, while Hough are ranked 27th).
Palisades' loss dropped their record down to 5-9-1. As for Ballantyne Ridge, their victory bumped their record up to 10-5-2.
Ballantyne Ridge skirted past Palisades 6-5 in their previous meeting last Monday. Will Wolves repeat their success, or do the Pumas have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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