Soccer Preview: Heritage vs. Millbrook
Heritage and Millbrook are an even 4-4-2 against one another since August of 2019, but likely not for long. The Heritage Huskies will look to defend their home pitch on Thursday against the Millbrook Wildcats at 6:15 p.m. Heritage is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.1 goals per game this season.
Heritage is headed into Thursday's game hungry for a win as their strong season has now been derailed by two straight defeats. They fell just short of Rolesville by a score of 4-3 on Tuesday.
Ryan Palmateer and
Cole Capps scored all three of Heritage's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 20 goals.
Meanwhile, Millbrook managed to keep up with Wakefield until halftime on Thursday, but things quickly went downhill from there. Millbrook came up short against Wakefield, falling 4-0. Having soared to a lofty eight goals in the game before, the Wildcats' shutout was a dramatic turnaround.
Heritage's loss ended a four-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 10-3-1. As for Millbrook, their defeat dropped their record down to 6-4-4.
Heritage came out on top in a nail-biter against Millbrook in their previous matchup back in September, sneaking past 2-1. Will Heritage repeat their success, or does Millbrook have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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