Southeast is 0-10 against Palmetto since December of 2014 but things could change on Wednesday. The Southeast Seminoles will look to defend their home pitch against the Palmetto Tigers at 7:00 p.m. Southeast will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more goals each matchup than the last.
Southeast's defense heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed back in December of 2024. They put the hurt on Boca Ciega with a sharp 9-0 win. Considering the Seminoles have won six contests by more than four goals this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Their offense was hitting Boca Ciega from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal. Orlando Merida led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for four goals all by himself.
Meanwhile, Palmetto didn't have quite enough to beat Olympia on Saturday and fell 2-1. That's two games in a row now that the Tigers have lost by just one goal.
Southeast has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 6-5-3 record this season. The wins came thanks to their defensive effort, having only given up two goals over those six games. As for Palmetto, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 5-9-2.
Southeast might still be hurting after the 4-1 loss they got from Palmetto in their previous meeting back in November of 2023. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Southeast was down 4-0.
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