The Newark Memorial Cougars will face off against the Alameda Hornets at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the contest red-hot, with Newark Memorial sitting on 13 straight wins and Alameda on seven.
Newark Memorial stacked a 13th blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Friday. Their defense stepped up to hand James Logan a 3-0 shutout. Newark Memorial's defense has been rock solid lately; the team hasn't given up a goal in their last seven matches.
They were led to victory by the tag-team duo of
Ibrahim Ahmed and
Jose Gomez, who scored all three of Newark Memorial's goals. The pair have combined for a total of 18 so far this season.
Meanwhile, it can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Alameda had no problem doing just that on Tuesday. They skirted past the Cowboys 3-2. Three seems to be a good number for Alameda as the team scooped up a win with the same number of goals in their previous game.
Newark Memorial's win was their ninth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 20-0-3. Those victories were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 43 goals over those nine matches. As for Alameda, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 12 of their last 14 games, which provided a nice bump to their 14-5-4 record this season.
Newark Memorial took their win against Alameda in their previous meeting back in December of 2016 by a conclusive 6-1. In that contest, Newark Memorial amassed a halftime lead of 4-1, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Friday.
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