Soccer Preview: Mitchell vs. Shoals
The Mitchell Bluejackets are on the road again on Wednesday to play the Shoals Jug Rox at 5:30 p.m. Mitchell is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 2.8 goals per game this season.
Mitchell is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Monday. They had just enough and edged Lighthouse Christian Academy out 3-2. Peyton Porter had to tread lightly for part of the match after he was hit with a yellow card, but that was the only trouble the Bluejackets got from the refs.
Mitchell hit Lighthouse Christian Academy with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Augustus Gillespie,
Alexander Gaytan-Valle, and
Aiden Pridemore.
Meanwhile, Shoals kept a clean sheet against Bloomfield on Monday. They blew past the Cardinals 7-0. Both teams had to tread carefully at times as the refs weren't afraid to hand out yellow cards: Rator Hoffman was handed one for the Jug Rox, while the Cardinals got theirs courtesy of Laytin Graff.
The victory got Mitchell back to even at 6-6-3. As for Shoals, their win bumped their record up to 9-6-2.
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