Soccer Recap: Riverside-Durham Falls Short of Wakefield in the Playoffs

By Team Reports Nov 21, 2024, 9:33am

Soccer Recap: Riverside-Durham vs. Wakefield

It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Riverside-Durham can now relate to. They fell 4-2 to the Wakefield Wolverines on Thursday. While losing is never fun, the Pirates can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 86th, while the Wolverines are ranked third).

Amir El-Tanany and Gustavo Lagos scored both of Riverside-Durham's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 19 goals.

Riverside-Durham's loss ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 12-8-3. As for Wakefield, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 21-4 record this season.

Riverside-Durham does not have any more games scheduled as of now. Wakefield has already played their next contest, a 1-0 victory against Broughton on the 16th.

Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps

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