Soccer Preview: Smoky Hill vs. Heritage
The Smoky Hill Buffaloes will head out on the road to square off against the Heritage Eagles at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Smoky Hill is no doubt hoping to put an end to a three-game streak of away losses.
Smoky Hill is headed into the matchup fresh off scoring the most goals they have all season. They were the clear victor by an 11-1 margin over Overland on Tuesday. The match was pretty much decided by the half, when the score had already reached 7-1.
Smoky Hill's offense was hitting Overland from everywhere, as eight different players booted in a goal.
Alicia Lopez led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by herself.
Meanwhile, Heritage faced Mountain Vista in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Tuesday. Heritage fell just short of Mountain Vista by a score of 1-0.
Smoky Hill's win ended a four-game drought at home and bumped them up to 3-8. As for Heritage, their loss dropped their record down to 3-2-2.
Smoky Hill might still be hurting after the 3-0 defeat they got from Heritage when the teams last played back in May of 2023. Can Smoky Hill avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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