The Mountain Island Charter Raptors have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Bradford Prep Bears at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Neither squad made it on the board the last time they hit the pitch, so they've probably got a bit of extra motivation.
Bradford Prep will have to contend with a Mountain Island Charter team hungry for a win, something the squad hasn't seen since September 4. Mountain Island Charter fell just short of Christ the King by a score of 1-0 on Wednesday. While losing is never fun, the Raptors can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 398th, while the Crusaders are ranked 135th).
Meanwhile, Bradford Prep had already won eight in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.1 goals) and they went ahead and made it nine on Wednesday. They never let the Pride onto the board and left with a 1-0 victory. Even though the Bears got in a bit of trouble with the refs ( Grant Ellis was handed a red card), the team managed to overcome the adversity.
Bradford Prep's one-goal win came courtesy of Ellis, who's now up to nine this season.
Mountain Island Charter's loss dropped their record down to 1-8-3. As for Bradford Prep, they pushed their record up to 10-2 with the win, which was their fifth straight at home.
Mountain Island Charter came up short against Bradford Prep in their previous meeting back in October of 2023, falling 3-1. Can Mountain Island Charter avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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