The Mountain Ridge Miners will face off against the Bishop Walsh Spartans at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Mountain Ridge has eight straight victories, Bishop Walsh has six straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the pitch.
Mountain Ridge is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another highly-ranked state team: University, who was ranked 20th at the time (Mountain Ridge was ranked 15th). Mountain Ridge's defense stepped up to hand University a 3-0 shutout on Tuesday. The Miners might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won seven games by three goals or more this season.
They hit University with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Elijah Cooper,
Trenton Diamond, and
Charlie Simpson.
Meanwhile, Bishop Walsh managed to keep up with Saint James until halftime on Saturday, but things quickly went downhill from there. Bishop Walsh came up short against Saint James, falling 3-0. That's two games in a row now that the Spartans have lost by exactly three goals.
Mountain Ridge's win was their fourth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 8-0. As for Bishop Walsh, their defeat dropped their record down to 2-7.
Everything went Mountain Ridge's way against Bishop Walsh in their previous meeting back in October of 2023, as Mountain Ridge made off with a 3-0 victory. Will Mountain Ridge repeat their success, or does Bishop Walsh have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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