Soccer Preview: Jacksonville vs. South Central
Jacksonville is 6-0 against South Central since September of 2021, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Tuesday. The Jacksonville Cardinals will square off against the South Central Falcons at 6:00 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Jacksonville has three straight wins, South Central has ten straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the pitch.
Last Tuesday, Jacksonville earned a 3-1 victory over D.H. Conley. Given the Cardinals' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 83rd, while the Vikings are ranked 247th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jacksonville hit D.H. Conley with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Haydon Huddleston,
Chase Crawford, and
Kyrie Williams.
Meanwhile, South Central came up short against New Bern on Thursday, falling 5-1.
Jacksonville has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 10-5-2 record this season. As for South Central, their loss dropped their record down to 2-12-2.
Everything went Jacksonville's way against South Central in their previous matchup back in October of 2023, as Jacksonville made off with an 8-1 win. In that game, Jacksonville amassed a halftime lead of 4-1, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Tuesday.
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