Soccer Preview: Wakefield vs. Millbrook
The Wakefield Wolverines will face off against the Millbrook Wildcats at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday. Wakefield is coming into the contest hot, having won their last five games.
Wakefield is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of North Carolina's top teams: Heritage, who was ranked 11th in their home state at the time (Wakefield was ranked tenth). Wakefield came out on top against Heritage by a score of 3-1 on Wednesday. That's two games straight that the Wolverines have won by exactly two goals.
They hit Heritage with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Eduardo Vazquez-Aldama,
Klein Pulley, and
Ibra Ndiaye.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Millbrook). Their defense stepped up to hand Knightdale an 8-0 shutout on Wednesday. The team's explosion on offense also rewarded the Wildcats with their most commanding win of the season.
Wakefield pushed their record up to 12-1 with the win, which was their third straight at home. As for Millbrook, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 6-3-4.
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