The Southwest Eagles will take on the MAST Academy Makos at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Southwest's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. They put the hurt on Westland Hialeah with a sharp 4-0 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Eagles.
Meanwhile, MAST Academy waltzed into their contest on Tuesday with eight straight wins... but they left with nine. They blew past the Raiders 8-0. The Makos might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won six games by three goals or more this season.
Their offense was hitting Ransom Everglades from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal. David Holztreger led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Southwest has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 3-10 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 13 goals over those four contests. As for MAST Academy, their win bumped their record up to 12-1-2.
Southwest was able to grind out a solid victory over MAST Academy in their previous meeting back in January of 2015, winning 3-1. The rematch might be a little tougher for Southwest since the team won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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