The Tupelo Golden Wave will venture away from home to take on the Northwest Rankin Cougars at 1:45 p.m. on Friday.
Tupelo is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Mississippi's top teams: Lewisburg, who was ranked sixth at the time (Tupelo was ranked tenth). The Golden Wave fell just short of the Patriots by a score of 1-0 on Tuesday. That makes it the first time this season Tupelo have let down their home crowd.
Meanwhile, Northwest Rankin beat Pearl 3-1 on Tuesday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Northwest Rankin.
Tyler Hornke and Reid Reynolds scored all three of Northwest Rankin's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 22 goals.
Tupelo's loss dropped their record down to 8-3-2. As for Northwest Rankin, their win bumped their record up to 9-2-1.
Tupelo came up short against Northwest Rankin in their previous meeting back in December of 2022, falling 2-0. Can the Golden Wave avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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