The Lakewood Gators will look to defend their home pitch on Thursday against the East Clarendon Wolverines at 5:30 p.m. Both teams are strolling into their contests after big wins in their previous games.
Lakewood had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3 goals), and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. Their defense stepped up to hand Manning a 3-0 shutout.
Lakewood was led to victory by the tag-team duo of
Abner Motika and
Caleb Sims, who scored all three of Lakewood's goals. The pair have combined for a total of eight so far this season.
Meanwhile, after failing to score in their last match, East Clarendon made sure to put some goals up on the board against Manning on Saturday. Everything went their way against the Monarchs as they made off with a 7-1 win. The contest was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 4-0.
Lakewood now has a winning record of 3-2. As for East Clarendon, the win also got them back to even at 1-1.
Lakewood took their victory against East Clarendon in their previous matchup on Saturday by a conclusive 6-0. Does Lakewood have another victory up their sleeve, or will East Clarendon turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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