Lee County has been on the road for two straight, but on Wednesday they'll finally head home. They will take on the Overhills Jaguars at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Last Monday, Lee County made easy work of Cape Fear and carried off a 4-1 victory. Four seems to be a good number for Lee County as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of goals in their previous game.
They were led to victory by the tag-team duo of
Gillian Garrison and
Ava Baldwin, who scored all four of Lee County's goals. The pair have combined for a total of 27 so far this season.
Meanwhile, Overhills had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6 goals), and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. Their defense stepped up to hand the Golden Bulls a 9-0 shutout. Overhills' defense has been rock solid lately; the team hasn't given up a goal in their last three contests.
Lee County pushed their record up to 8-2 with that victory, which was their fourth straight on the road. Those good results were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 21 goals over those four games. As for Overhills, their win bumped their record up to 5-1.
Lee County suffered a grim 5-1 defeat to Overhills in their previous meeting back in April of 2017. That matchup was all but decided by halftime, at which point Lee County was down 3-0.
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