The Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet Royals will venture away from home to take on the Independence Academy Lions at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
On Thursday, it was close, but Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet sidestepped Green Hill for a 3-2 win. That's two games straight that Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet have won by just one goal.
They hit Green Hill with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from Brandon Alcendor, Eli Fell, and Adyn Parker.
Meanwhile, Independence Academy had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2 goals) and they went ahead and made it six on Thursday. They walked away with a 4-2 victory over the Colts. The final result isn't all the surprising considering Independence Academy's considerable advantage in MaxPreps' Tennessee soccer rankings (they are ranked 34th, while Glencliff are ranked 194th).
The win made it two in a row for Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet and bumps their season record up to 6-4-1. As for Independence Academy, they pushed their record up to 9-1 with the victory, which was their fifth straight on the road.
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