The Gray's Creek Bears will head out to challenge the Cape Fear Colts at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Gray's Creek has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the contest with three straight defeats, while Cape Fear will come in with eight straight wins.
Gray's Creek is likely headed into the matchup with a focus on the second half, which is when things went downhill against Jack Britt on Wednesday. Gray's Creek fell just short of Jack Britt by a score of 3-2. While losing is never fun, the Bears can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 403rd, while the Buccaneers are ranked 155th).
Meanwhile, Cape Fear kept a clean sheet against Terry Sanford on Thursday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past the Bulldogs 1-0. Give the Colts' defense some credit: that's the team's eighth straight shutout.
Their one-goal win came courtesy of
Bryan Martinez, who's now up to three this season.
Gray's Creek now has a losing record at 3-4-2. As for Cape Fear, they pushed their record up to 9-2-1 with that win, which was their sixth straight on the road.
Gray's Creek might still be hurting after the 7-0 loss they got from Cape Fear when the teams last played back in October of 2023. Can Gray's Creek avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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