Salem is 0-9-1 against Blacksburg since April of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Salem Spartans will head out on the road to challenge the Blacksburg Bruins at 6:00 p.m. Salem is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 4.7 goals per game this season.
Salem stacked a tenth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Monday. They blew past Rockbridge County 5-0. Given Salem's advantage in MaxPreps' Virginia soccer rankings (they are ranked 20th, while Rockbridge County is ranked 226th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Salem hit Rockbridge County with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Elijah Clark (2),
Lucas Yerton,
Graham Fischer, and
Anthony Rugama.
Meanwhile, Blacksburg has not lost a match yet, a trend which continued in their latest game on Tuesday. They and Christiansburg finished up their contest with a 2-2 draw. The result (or lack thereof) marked Blacksburg's first draw of the season.
Salem is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 12-2-2 record this season. With that draw, Blacksburg's record moves to 15-0-1.
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