The Reading Memorial Rockets will face off against the Belmont Marauders at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Reading Memorial had to skate by with only a one-goal margin when they last took the pitch, which might have inspired the four-goal drubbing they dealt Wilmington on Wednesday. The Rockets' defense stepped up to hand the Wildcats a 4-0 shutout. Reading Memorial haven't had any issues with Wilmington recently, as the game was their seventh consecutive win against them.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Belmont). They put the hurt on Stoneham with a sharp 5-0 victory on Wednesday. Given Belmont's advantage in MaxPreps' Massachusetts soccer rankings (they are ranked 116th, while Stoneham are ranked 268th) , the win wasn't entirely unexpected.
Belmont's win bumped their record up to 6-4-5. As for Reading Memorial, they now have a winning record of 6-5-2.
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