After three games on the road, Mountain Ridge is heading back home. They will welcome the Hampshire Trojans at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday. Mountain Ridge is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 4.3 goals per game this season.
Mountain Ridge had been on a four-game streak of scoring at least four goals, but Northern put an end to it on Thursday. Mountain Ridge fell just short of Northern by a score of 2-1. The Miners' defeat signaled the end of their five-game winning streak.
Their goal came courtesy of
Reese Rizzo, who's now up to three this season.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Hampshire). Everything went their way against Frankfort on Thursday as Hampshire made off with a 7-1 win. Considering the Trojans have won three matches by more than two goals this season, Thursday's blowout was nothing new.
Having lost for the first time this season, Mountain Ridge fell to 5-1. As for Hampshire, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 6-3-1 record this season.
Mountain Ridge came up short against Hampshire in their previous meeting back in September of 2019, falling 3-1. Can Mountain Ridge avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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