The Mt. Pleasant Tigers will square off against the Nacogdoches Dragons at 7:15 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Mt. Pleasant barely beat Whitehouse the last time the pair played, but that sure wasn't the case this time around. The Tigers never let the Wildcats get on the board and left with a 5-0 win on Tuesday. Mt. Pleasant might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won five matchups by three goals or more this season.
Meanwhile, Nacogdoches made easy work of Texas on Tuesday and carried off a 4-0 victory. Given Nacogdoches' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas soccer rankings (they are ranked 79th, while Texas are ranked 521st) , the win wasn't entirely unexpected.
Nacogdoches hit Texas with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from Christian Padilla (2), Edgar Reyes, and Tristyn Garrett.
Nacogdoches has been performing well recently as they've won nine of their last 12 matches. That's provided a nice bump to their 11-4-3 record this season. The wins came thanks in part to their defensive effort, having only given up five goals over those 12 contests. As for Mt. Pleasant, their victory bumped their record up to 11-3-1.
Mt. Pleasant came out on top in a nail-biter against Nacogdoches when the teams last played back in January, sneaking past 1-0. Do the Tigers have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Dragons turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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