The Ashley Screaming Eagle are on the road again on Thursday to play the Laney Buccaneers at 6:00 p.m. Ashley is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 2.8 goals per game this season.
Ashley is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of North Carolina's top teams: Hoggard, who was ranked eighth in their home state at the time (Ashley was ranked fourth). Ashley fell just short of Hoggard by a score of 4-3 on Wednesday. The Screaming Eagle's defeat signaled the end of their six-game winning streak.
They hit Hoggard with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Tanner Putnam,
Luke Tierney, and
Grant Ruscetti.
Meanwhile, Laney had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4.8 goals), and they went ahead and made it five last Tuesday. Their defense stepped up to hand the Cougars a 2-0 shutout. The game got a bit rough at times, as the refs handed out a total of four yellow cards before it was all over.
Ashley's loss dropped their record down to 7-2. As for Laney, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a nice bump to their 7-2-1 record this season.
Ashley skirted past Laney 5-4 in their previous matchup back in October of 2023. Will Ashley repeat their success, or does Laney have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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