St. Mary is 0-10 against North Raleigh Christian Academy since March of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The St. Mary's Saints will head out on the road to square off against the North Raleigh Christian Academy Knights at 4:30 p.m. St. Mary's will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps North Carolina Rankings (they are ranked 277th, while North Raleigh Christian Academy is ranked 23rd).
Sadly, St. Mary's is still looking for their first win of the season after six games. They wound up on the wrong side of a rough 4-0 walloping at the hands of Ravenscroft on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, North Raleigh Christian Academy had already won seven in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.1 goals), and they went ahead and made it eight on Tuesday. Their defense stepped up to hand the Chargers a 5-0 shutout. North Raleigh Christian Academy might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team's won four matches by four goals or more this season.
St. Mary's defeat dropped their record down to 0-5-1. As for North Raleigh Christian Academy, their win was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 8-2.
St. Mary's suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to North Raleigh Christian Academy in their previous matchup back in April of 2023. Can St. Mary's avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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