The North Kingstown Skippers will square off against the North Smithfield Northmen at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
North Kingstown is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Rhode Island's top teams: Cranston West, who was ranked 18th in their home state at the time (North Kingstown was ranked seventh). North Kingstown never let Cranston West onto the board and left with a 3-0 win on Wednesday. The score was close at the half, but the Skippers pulled away in the second half with two goals.
They hit Cranston West with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Johnluca Frenzilli,
Ryan Kanaczet, and
Collin Petrella.
Meanwhile, North Smithfield's game on Tuesday was all tied up 0-0 at the half, but luckily for them it didn't stay that way. Everything went their way against Westerly as North Smithfield made off with a 3-0 victory. The Northmen might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won four contests by three goals or more this season.
The win (which was North Kingstown's third in a row) raised their record to 8-2-2. As for North Smithfield, their victory bumped their record up to 5-7-1.
North Kingstown came up short against North Smithfield when the teams last played back in November of 2020, falling 3-1. Can North Kingstown avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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