The Kingwood Mustangs will be staying on the road on Friday to face off against the Cinco Ranch Cougars at 7:30 p.m. Kingwood is strutting in with some offensive muscle, as they've averaged 2.8 goals per game this season.
Kingwood extended their postseason success on Monday against Alief Elsik. Their defense stepped up to hand the Rams a 2-0 shutout. That's two games straight that Kingwood has won by exactly two goals.
They were led to victory by the tag-team duo of
Jacob Smith and
Emmanuel Alvarez, who scored both of Kingwood's goals. The pair have combined for a total of 17 so far this season.
Meanwhile, Cinco Ranch had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.3 goals), and they went ahead and made it five on Monday. They walked away with a 2-0 win over the Raiders. Given Cinco Ranch's advantage in MaxPreps' Texas soccer rankings (they are ranked tenth, while Northbrook is ranked 150th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Kingwood has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 13 of their last 14 matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 16-7-2 record this season. As for Cinco Ranch, their victory bumped their record up to 16-3-4.
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