The Middle Creek Mustangs have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Apex Friendship Patriots at 6:30 p.m. on Monday. Middle Creek is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3 goals per game this season.
Middle Creek is coming into the game fresh off a high-scoring shootout with Green Hope that saw the pair combine for nine shots on goal. Middle Creek took a 4-2 hit to the loss column at the hands of Green Hope on Wednesday. While losing is never fun, the Mustangs can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 50th, while the Falcons are ranked second).
Donovan Shanklin wasn't going to let Green Hope walk away unscathed as he scored both of Middle Creek's goals, bringing his season total up to eight goals.
Meanwhile, Apex Friendship entered their matchup against Holly Springs on Wednesday without any home losses, but there's a first time for everything. Apex Friendship fell just short of Holly Springs by a score of 2-1. That's two games in a row now that the Patriots have lost by just one goal.
Middle Creek's defeat ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 5-2-1. As for Apex Friendship, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 5-4-1.
Everything went Middle Creek's way against Apex Friendship in their previous meeting back in October of 2023 as Middle Creek made off with a 3-0 victory. Does Middle Creek have another victory up their sleeve, or will Apex Friendship turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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