Soccer Recap: Southport Takes a Loss

By Team Reports Sep 20, 2024, 9:42am

Soccer Recap: Southport vs. Cathedral

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The matchup between Southport and Cathedral on Tuesday hardly resembled the 2-0 effort from their previous meeting. The Southport Cardinals came up short against the Cathedral Fighting Irish, falling 8-1. The Cardinals haven't had much luck with the Fighting Irish recently, as the team's come up short the last four times they've met.

Southport's goal came courtesy of Maycol Ortiz, which was the first he's scored this season.

Southport now has a losing record at 3-4-3. As for Cathedral, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 7-3-1 record this season.

Southport will face off against Franklin Central at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams are at an even 4-4-1 against one another since September of 2016, but likely not for long. As for Cathedral, they will look to defend their home pitch on Thursday against Roncalli at 7:00 p.m. Cathedral is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3 goals per game this season.

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