After two games on the road, Hillgrove is heading back home. They will take on the Pope Greyhounds at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Hillgrove put the finishing touches on their seventh blowout victory of the season on Tuesday. Their defense stepped up to hand Marietta a 5-0 shutout. Given Hillgrove's advantage in MaxPreps' Georgia soccer rankings (they are ranked 25th, while Marietta is ranked 230th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Pope put another one in the bag last Tuesday to keep their undefeated season alive. They came out on top against Lassiter by a score of 4-2. That's two games straight that Pope has won by exactly two goals.
Hillgrove is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-3-1 record this season. As for Pope, their victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 9-0-1.
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