Mountain Ridge hasn't had much luck against O'Connor recently, but that could start to change on Friday. The Mountain Ridge Mountain Lions will venture away from home to challenge the O'Connor Eagles at 6:00 p.m. Mountain Ridge's defense has only allowed 0.4 goals per game this season, so O'Connor's offense will have their work cut out for them.
Mountain Ridge is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arizona's top teams: Pinnacle, who was ranked 12th at the time (Mountain Ridge was ranked tenth). Mountain Ridge fell just short of Pinnacle by a score of 2-1 on Monday. The match was a 0-0 toss-up at halftime, but the Mountain Lions couldn't quite close it out.
Meanwhile, O'Connor didn't have quite enough to beat Pinnacle on Thursday and fell 2-1. The Eagles have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Mountain Ridge's loss ended a five-game streak of away wins and brought them to 9-2. As for O'Connor, their defeat dropped their record down to 6-5-1.
Mountain Ridge came up short against O'Connor in their previous matchup back in January of 2024, falling 2-0. Can Mountain Ridge avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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