Hickory is on a six-game streak of home wins, while East Lincoln is on a seven-game streak of away wins: one of those streaks is about to end. The Hickory Red Tornadoes will host the East Lincoln Mustangs at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Hickory is headed in fresh off scoring the most goals they have all season. They blew past North Lincoln 8-1 on Wednesday. Given the Red Tornadoes' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 87th, while the Knights are ranked 295th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, everything went East Lincoln's way against Statesville on Wednesday as East Lincoln made off with a 6-1 win. The result was nothing new for the Mustangs, who have now won 13 matchups by three goals or more so far this season.
Their offense was hitting Statesville from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Evan Blackley led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Hickory has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 12 of their last 14 games, which provided a nice bump to their 17-4-1 record this season. As for East Lincoln, their victory bumped their record up to 19-1-2.
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