Soccer Preview: Shea vs. Chariho
The Shea Raiders will challenge the Chariho Chargers at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Shea is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Rhode Island's top teams: East Greenwich, who was ranked ninth in their home state at the time (Shea was ranked 11th). Shea's defense stepped up to hand East Greenwich a 3-0 shutout on Wednesday. The Raiders might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won five contests by three goals or more this season.
Luizandro Sanchez and
Paullo DaLomba scored all three of Shea's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 18 goals.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Chariho). They blew past Hope 9-1 on Tuesday. The result kept the Chargers happy, as they haven't lost a game since September 27th.
Chariho was without their leading scorer, Kody Poplaski, in Tuesday's game. With Poplaski sidelined, Dylan Edenbach got his first action of the season.
The win made it two in a row for Shea and bumps their season record up to 10-2-1. As for Chariho, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 9-4-1 record this season.
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