The Lexington Catholic Knights will face off against the Frederick Douglass Broncos at 7:15 p.m. on Monday. Both teams are coming into the match red-hot, with Lexington Catholic sitting on five straight victories and Frederick Douglass on three.
Lexington Catholic is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Kentucky's top teams: Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was ranked 19th in their home state at the time (Lexington Catholic was ranked fifth). Lexington Catholic never let Paul Laurence Dunbar onto the board and left with a 6-0 win on Wednesday. The Knights' defense has been rock solid lately; the team hasn't given up a goal in their last five contests.
Woodford County typically has all the answers at home, but on Wednesday Frederick Douglass proved too difficult a challenge. They had just enough and edged the Yellowjackets out 2-1. That's two games straight that the Broncos have won by just one goal.
Lexington Catholic is on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 13-2-3 record this season. As for Frederick Douglass, their victory bumped their record up to 12-1-1.
Everything went Lexington Catholic's way against Frederick Douglass when the teams last played back in August of 2019 as Lexington Catholic made off with a 5-0 win. Will Lexington Catholic repeat their success, or does Frederick Douglass have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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