The Archbishop Rummel Raiders will venture away from home to face off against the Holy Cross Tigers at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Archbishop Rummel is coming into the contest hot, having won their last five games.
If Archbishop Rummel beats Holy Cross with three goals on Wednesday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two matches with that exact score. Archbishop Rummel rang in the new year with a 3-1 victory over Morgan City on Saturday. That's two games straight that the Raiders have won by exactly two goals.
Meanwhile, Holy Cross was able to grind out a solid win over Archbishop Shaw on Monday, taking the game 3-1. Given the Tigers' advantage in MaxPreps' Louisiana soccer rankings (they are ranked sixth, while the Eagles are ranked 60th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Holy Cross pushed their record up to 12-1-1 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 21 goals over those five games. As for Archbishop Rummel, their record now sits at 11-5-4.
Archbishop Rummel came out on top in a nail-biter against Holy Cross when the teams last played back in December of 2023, sneaking past 3-2. Will Archbishop Rummel repeat their success, or does Holy Cross have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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