Soccer Preview: North Smithfield vs. Davies Career & Tech
The North Smithfield Northmen will face off against the Davies Career & Tech Patriots at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. North Smithfield's offense has struggled lately (the team hasn't scored more than a single goal for four straight games), a trend the team is no doubt ready to end.
Having struggled with three defeats in a row, North Smithfield finally turned things around against West Warwick on Tuesday. Both finished up on equal footing with a 1-1 draw. The result (or lack thereof) marked the Northmen's first draw of the season.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Davies Career & Tech). Their defense stepped up to hand Hope a 12-0 shutout on Thursday. The Patriots might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won nine matches by three goals or more this season.
Their offense was hitting Hope from everywhere, as seven different players booted in a goal.
Daniely Mendez led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for three goals all by herself.
North Smithfield's draw gives them a new season record of 2-13-1. As for Davies Career & Tech, the victory (which was their third in a row) raised their record to 9-7-1.
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