The Pinellas Park Patriots and the Tarpon Springs Spongers will compete for holiday cheer at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Pinellas Park is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.4 goals per game this season.
Pinellas Park will roll into the match after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up one goal last Friday, then bounced right back against Gibbs on Tuesday. Pinellas Park was the clear victor by a 7-1 margin over Gibbs. The Patriots might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three games by three goals or more this season.
They hit Gibbs with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from Jose Agudelo (2), Omar Saucedo (2), Samuel Cariaco (2), and Geovanni Tepetate.
Meanwhile, Tarpon Springs was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their sixth straight defeat. They came up short against Palm Harbor University, falling 8-0. While losing is never fun, the Spongers can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Florida soccer rankings (they are ranked 449th, while the Hurricanes are ranked 13th).
The win got Pinellas Park back to even at 4-4-1. As for Tarpon Springs, their loss dropped their record down to 2-6.
Pinellas Park might still be hurting after the 5-0 defeat they got from Tarpon Springs in their previous meeting back in November of 2014. Can Pinellas Park avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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