The Cocoa Beach Minutemen are taking a road trip to square off against the St. Cloud Bulldogs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Cocoa Beach has three straight victories, St. Cloud has four straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the pitch.
St. Cloud better have a healthy lead at halftime, because if last week is any indication, that's when Cocoa Beach really get things going. Everything went Cocoa Beach's way against Rockledge on Wednesday as Cocoa Beach made off with a 5-2 win. Given the Minutemen's advantage in MaxPreps' Florida soccer rankings (they are ranked 59th, while the Raiders are ranked 381st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Cocoa Beach hit Rockledge with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from Malachi Hensley (2), Max Perez, Chase Cobb, and Javier Gonzalez.
Meanwhile, St. Cloud lost 5-1 to Osceola on Tuesday.
Cocoa Beach is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 7-1-1 record this season. As for St. Cloud, they now have a losing record at 3-4-1.
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