Soccer Preview: Urbana vs. Chaminade Julienne Catholic
On Saturday Urbana will have to hit the road after three straight games at home. They will challenge the Chaminade Julienne Catholic Eagles at 7:15 p.m. Urbana will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more goals each contest than the last.
Urbana's defense heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. Everything went their way against Bellefontaine as Urbana made off with a 6-0 victory. Considering the Hillclimbers have won nine matches by more than two goals this season, Wednesday's blowout was nothing new.
They hit Bellefontaine with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Peyton Mounce (3),
Morgan Deskins (2), and
Lola Rice.
Meanwhile, while it was all tied up 1-1 at halftime, Chaminade Julienne Catholic was not quite Carroll's equal in the second half on Wednesday. They fell just short of the Patriots by a score of 2-1. While losing is never fun, the Eagles can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Ohio soccer rankings (they are ranked 126th, while the Patriots are ranked 30th).
Urbana pushed their record up to 10-2-4 with the win, which was their sixth straight at home. As for Chaminade Julienne Catholic, they now have a losing record at 7-8-1.
Urbana suffered a grim 4-1 defeat to Chaminade Julienne Catholic in their previous matchup back in August of 2023. Can Urbana avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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