After four games on the road, Carolina Friends is heading back home. They will take on the Burlington Christian Academy Royals at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday. Carolina Friends will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps North Carolina Rankings (they are ranked 349th, while Burlington Christian Academy is ranked 159th).
Carolina Friends can now show off three landslide victories after their most recent game on Thursday. They blew past Salem Academy 6-2. It was an even better day for Eliza Cherry as she scored five goals for her team.
Meanwhile, after a string of six wins, Burlington Christian Academy's good fortune finally ran out on Tuesday. They fell 3-1 to Trinity Academy. Burlington Christian Academy was red-hot offensively headed into the match (they scored no less than four goals in the six matchups prior) but Trinity Academy's defense proved too tough.
Carolina Friends' win bumped their record up to 3-5. As for Burlington Christian Academy, their loss ended a four-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 6-2.
Carolina Friends was able to grind out a solid victory over Burlington Christian Academy when the teams last played back in April of 2023, winning 3-1. Will Carolina Friends repeat their success, or does Burlington Christian Academy have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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