The Cocoa Beach Minutemen will take on the Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy Tigers in a holiday battle at at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Cocoa Beach sitting on four straight wins and Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy on nine.
Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy better have a healthy lead at halftime, because if last week is any indication, that's when Cocoa Beach really get things going. Cocoa Beach blew past St. Cloud 6-2 on Thursday. The Minutemen might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won four games by three goals or more this season.
Their offense was hitting St. Cloud from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal. Max Perez led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Meanwhile, Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy kept a clean sheet against Melbourne on Friday. They walked away with a 2-0 victory over the Bulldogs. Give the Tigers' defense some credit: that's the team's third straight shutout.
Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy's win was their fifth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 9-0. The wins came thanks to their defensive effort, having only given up one goal over those five contests. As for Cocoa Beach, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six matches, which provided a nice bump to their 8-1-1 record this season.
Cocoa Beach came up short against Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy in their previous meeting back in February, falling 3-1. Can Cocoa Beach avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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