The matchup between Crystal River and Nature Coast Tech on Friday hardly resembled the 1-0 effort from their previous meeting. The Crystal River Pirates lost 8-0 to the Nature Coast Tech Sharks. While losing is never fun, the Pirates can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida soccer rankings (they are ranked 260th, while the Sharks are ranked 70th).
Crystal River's loss ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 4-4. As for Nature Coast Tech, the win (which was their sixth in a row) raised their record to 6-1.
Both squads will have to hit the road in their upcoming games. Crystal River will venture away from home to challenge Umatilla at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. Umatilla will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more goals each matchup than the last. As for Nature Coast Tech, they will get to enjoy the win for a while: their next game is against Weeki Wachee at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Nature Coast Tech is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 6.2 goals per game this season.
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