The Piedmont Panthers will head out on the road to square off against the Garinger Wildcats at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Piedmont is strutting in with some offensive muscle, as they've averaged 7.2 goals per game this season.
Piedmont stacked a tenth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Thursday. They put the hurt on Monroe with a sharp 9-0 victory. Given Piedmont's advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 137th, while Monroe is ranked 478th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Piedmont's offense was hitting Monroe from everywhere, as six different players booted in a goal.
Allison Schie led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by herself.
Meanwhile, Garinger was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their fifth straight loss. They wound up on the wrong side of a tough 9-0 walloping at the hands of Charlotte Catholic. That's two games in a row now that Garinger has lost by exactly nine goals.
Piedmont's win was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 11-3-1. As for Garinger, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-7.
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