The Southwest Guilford Cowboys will head out to take on the Northwest Guilford Vikings at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are rolling into the game with opposing streaks: Southwest Guilford has struggled recently with three defeats in a row, while Northwest Guilford will arrive with ten straight wins.
Southwest Guilford is likely headed into the matchup with a focus on the second half, which is when things went downhill against Ragsdale on Tuesday. Southwest Guilford fell 5-3 to Ragsdale. While losing is never fun, the Cowboys can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 312th, while the Tigers are ranked 53rd).
Meanwhile, Northwest Guilford kept a clean sheet against Southeast Guilford on Tuesday. They blew past the Falcons 9-0. The result was nothing new for the Vikings, who have now won 12 matches by three goals or more so far this season.
Their offense was hitting Southeast Guilford from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Luis Ortega led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for three goals all by himself.
Southwest Guilford's loss dropped their record down to 4-12-2. As for Northwest Guilford, their victory was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 15-1.
Southwest Guilford suffered a grim 5-1 defeat to Northwest Guilford in their previous meeting on Monday. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Southwest Guilford was down 3-0.
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