Soccer Recap: Tough Loss for Hillside + How To Watch

Hillside was not able to break out of their rough patch on Wednesday as the team picked up their 11th straight loss. They lost 9-0 to the Riverside-Durham Pirates. While losing is never fun, Hillside can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 448th, while Riverside-Durham are ranked 126th).

Hillside has now lost 14 of their last 15 games on the road. That's part of the reason why they have an 0-18-2 record this season. Admittedly, the team was facing some tough opposition over that stretch, including 4-0 Southern School of Energy and Sustainability and 3-0-1 East Chapel Hill (their opponents had an average overall winning percentage of 77.4% over those games). As for Riverside-Durham, their victory was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 8-7-3.

Hillside wasted no time getting back out on the pitch and has already played their next matchup, a 9-0 defeat against Chapel Hill on the 21st. As for Riverside-Durham, they also didn't take long to hit the pitch again: they've already played their next contest, a 4-1 win against Southern School of Energy and Sustainability on the 20th.