The Mary Persons Bulldogs will challenge the Troup County Tigers at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Mary Persons will be strutting in after a victory while Troup County will be coming in after a loss.
Mary Persons proved they can win big on Friday (they won by four) and on Monday they proved they can win the close ones too. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 2-1 win over Stratford Academy. The victory was all the more spectacular given Mary Persons' disadvantage in MaxPreps' Georgia soccer rankings (they are ranked 91st, while Stratford Academy are ranked 25th).
For some reason, the away team has come away with the win the last four times Troup County and LaGrange have met, but the home crowd finally got their W on Tuesday. Troup County fell just short of LaGrange by a score of 2-1.
Mary Persons pushed their record up to 10-3 with the win, which was their fifth straight on the road. The victories came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 15 goals over those five matchups. As for Troup County, their defeat dropped their record down to 6-8.
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