The Southeast Lauderdale Tigers will square off against the St. Patrick Fighting Irish at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday. Southeast Lauderdale is coming into the contest hot, having won their last five games.
While the 1-1 score might suggest a draw, it was Southeast Lauderdale who was credited with the victory back in January. Southeast Lauderdale got it done in the shootout by posting five goals to Enterprise's four.
St. Patrick is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Mississippi's top teams: St. Stanislaus, who was ranked third at the time (St. Patrick was ranked tenth). St. Patrick fell just short of St. Stanislaus by a score of 2-1 on Wednesday. The Fighting Irish's defeat signaled the end of their six-game winning streak.
Their goal came courtesy of Michael Baty, who's now up to 28 this season.
Southeast Lauderdale has been performing well recently as they've won eight of their last ten matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 8-6 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 49 goals over those ten games. As for St. Patrick, their loss ended a six-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 17-4-1.
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