Soccer Preview: Wheeling Park vs. John Marshall
Wheeling Park has gone 9-0-1 against John Marshall recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Tuesday. The Wheeling Park Patriots will be playing at home against the John Marshall Monarchs at 8:00 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Wheeling Park has eight straight wins, John Marshall has four straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the pitch.
Wheeling Park is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of West Virginia's top teams: Woodrow Wilson, who was ranked first in their home state at the time (Wheeling Park was ranked second). Wheeling Park had just enough and edged Woodrow Wilson out 2-1 on Saturday.
Tresz Mcleod and
Graham Loy scored both of Wheeling Park's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 40 goals.
Meanwhile, John Marshall's game last Saturday was all tied up 0-0 at the half, but sadly for them it didn't stay that way. They fell 2-0 to Preston.
Wheeling Park is on a roll lately: they've won 13 of their last 14 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 17-3 record this season. As for John Marshall, their defeat dropped their record down to 6-12.
Everything went Wheeling Park's way against John Marshall when the teams last played back in September, as Wheeling Park made off with a 7-0 victory. Will Wheeling Park repeat their success, or does John Marshall have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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