The Out-of-Door Academy Thunder will head out on the road to face off against the Canterbury Cougars at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Out-of-Door Academy is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They never let Neumann onto the board and left with a 7-0 victory. Winning may never get old, but the Thunder sure are getting used to it with their eighth in a row.
Meanwhile, Canterbury had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6.7 goals) and they went ahead and made it four on Tuesday. They blew past the Patriots 8-2. Given the Cougars' advantage in MaxPreps' Florida soccer rankings (they are ranked 98th, while the Patriots are ranked 285th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Canterbury's offense was hitting The Classical Academy of Sarasota from everywhere, as seven different players booted in a goal. Mackenzie Molina led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by herself.
Canterbury's win was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 16-4-2. The wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 30 goals over those four games. As for Out-of-Door Academy, their victory bumped their record up to 14-4-2.
Out-of-Door Academy suffered a grim 6-1 defeat to Canterbury in their previous matchup back in February of 2019. Can Out-of-Door Academy avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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