The Grissom Tigers will head out to face off against the Sparkman Senators at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams beat their previous opponents by a single goal, so this matchup might be just as contested.
Grissom is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Alabama's top teams: McGill-Toolen, who was ranked 18th at the time (Grissom was ranked tenth). Grissom never let McGill-Toolen get on the board and left with a 1-0 victory on Thursday. The result kept Grissom happy, as they haven't lost a game since February 28th.
Meanwhile, Sparkman had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3 goals) and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. They came within a single goal of losing the streak, but they secured a 3-2 W against the Wildcats. Three seems to be a good number for Sparkman as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of goals in their previous game.
The victory got Sparkman back to even at 5-5-3. As for Grissom, their win bumped their record up to 9-2-2.
Grissom took their victory against Sparkman when the teams last played back in April of 2024 by a conclusive 5-0. The rematch might be a little tougher for Grissom since the team won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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