The Western Guilford Hornets have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Grimsley Whirlies at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Western Guilford will bounce into Thursday's contest after beating Southwest Guilford, who they hadn't topped in nine consecutive meetings. Western Guilford's defense stepped up to hand Southwest Guilford a 6-0 shutout on Wednesday. The Hornets might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won seven matches by three goals or more this season.
Their offense was hitting Southwest Guilford from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Abisai Carmona led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Meanwhile, it was close, but on Wednesday Grimsley sidestepped Northern Guilford for a 4-3 win. Given the Whirlies' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 32nd, while the Nighthawks are ranked 286th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Western Guilford has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-6 record this season. As for Grimsley, they pushed their record up to 9-3-1 with the victory, which was their fourth straight on the road.
Western Guilford might still be hurting after the 8-1 defeat they got from Grimsley when the teams last played back in October of 2023. That matchup was all but decided by halftime, at which point Western Guilford was down 4-1.
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