The Lake Norman Wildcats will look to defend their home pitch on Tuesday against the Hickory Ridge Ragin' Bulls at 7:00 p.m. Neither of those teams managed to put together many goals in their previous contests, so the offenses might be a little more motivated than usual.
Hickory Ridge is hoping to do on Tuesday what Cox Mill couldn't on Friday: put an end to Lake Norman's winning streak, which now stands at three games. Lake Norman never let Cox Mill onto the board and left with a 1-0 victory. That's two games straight that Lake Norman has won by just one goal.
Meanwhile, Hickory Ridge didn't have quite enough to beat Pine Lake Prep on Thursday and fell 2-1. While losing is never fun, Hickory Ridge can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 110th, while Pine Lake Prep is ranked 15th).
Hickory Ridge's goal came courtesy of
Aubrey Hutchins, who's now up to 15 this season.
Lake Norman has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six games, which provided a massive bump to their 12-7 record this season. As for Hickory Ridge, their loss ended a four-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 9-9-3.
Lake Norman beat Hickory Ridge by a goal in their previous matchup back in April, winning 2-1. Will Lake Norman repeat their success, or does Hickory Ridge have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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