Soccer Preview: Northampton vs. West Point
Northampton is 1-9 against West Point since April of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Northampton Yellowjackets will head out on the road to take on the West Point Pointers at 5:30 p.m. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
Northampton is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to six goals on Wednesday, they were much more limited against Maury on Friday. They lost 6-0 to the Commodores. While losing is never fun, Northampton can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Virginia soccer rankings (they are ranked 236th, while Maury is ranked 106th).
Despite a strong season so far, West Point has seen their luck take a bit of a downturn recently. They fell just short of King William by a score of 5-4 on Monday. Even if West Point couldn't come away with the win, the high-scoring effort was a great turnaround for their offense, which had struggled int the games prior.
Northampton's loss ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 7-7. As for West Point, their defeat ended a six-game streak of away wins and brought them to 8-4-1.
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