Soccer Preview: Clear Lake vs. Middletown
Clear Lake is 1-9 against Middletown since September of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The Clear Lake Cardinals have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Middletown Mustangs at 6:15 p.m. Neither team made it on the board the last time they hit the pitch, so they've probably got a bit of extra motivation.
Clear Lake is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of California's top teams: Fort Bragg, who was ranked 13th in their home state at the time (Clear Lake was ranked seventh). The two teams finished up on equal footing with a 1-1 draw on Thursday.
Clear Lake's goal came courtesy of
Aleeya Bondi, who's now up to four this season.
Meanwhile, while it was all tied up 0-0 at halftime, Middletown was not quite Willits' equal in the second half on Thursday. They fell just short of the Wolverines by a score of 1-0. The Mustangs have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Clear Lake's draw makes their record 6-7-2 this season. As for Middletown, their defeat dropped their record down to 2-4.
Clear Lake suffered a grim 10-0 defeat to Middletown when the teams last played back in October of 2023. Can Clear Lake avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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