Soccer Preview: Capital vs. Nitro
A feisty cat fight will be fought when Cougars challenges the Nitro Wildcats at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Capital didn't have quite enough to beat Hoover and fell 3-2. The Cougars haven't had much luck with the Huskies recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
Meanwhile, Nitro entered their tilt with South Charleston on Tuesday with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. They walked away with a 3-1 win over the Black Eagles. That's two games straight that the Wildcats have won by exactly two goals.
Sophie Lawson and
Addison Smith scored all three of Nitro's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 18 goals.
Capital now has a losing record at 8-9-1. As for Nitro, they pushed their record up to 11-6-2 with the victory, which was their third straight on the road.
Capital suffered a grim 6-0 defeat to Nitro when the teams last played back in October of 2023. Can Capital avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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