Less than two miles separate Freeport High School from Baldwin High School. That tight margin showed itself on the soccer pitch Monday afternoon.

Freeport and Baldwin battled to a 1-1 draw at Caroline G. Atkinson Middle School in Freeport in Nassau AAA boys soccer play. While a league game, the matchup is also home of the Sunrise Cup Championship, a tradition Baldwin coach Christopher Soupios and Freeport coach Craig Klasson started a year ago.

“It would just be something great to keep as tradition goes to get the guys excited for it,” Klasson said.

While the Cup was in a mini-tournament format a year ago, the two decided to leave the honor to the league match between the two schools barely separated by Sunrise Highway.

“It’s always been a heated rivalry,” Freeport senior Emerson Molin

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