Soccer Preview: Urbana vs. Richwoods
The Urbana Tigers will square off against the Richwoods Knights at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
If Richwoods heads into halftime all tied up, they better play a good second half: that's when Urbana took over last week. Urbana came out on top in a nail-biter against Danville on Tuesday, sneaking past 2-1. Given the Tigers' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois soccer rankings (they are ranked 131st, while the Vikings are ranked 314th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Richwoods' matchup on Thursday was close up to the half, which is when they kicked things up a notch. They never let Bloomington onto the board and left with a 5-0 victory. The result was nothing new for the Knights, who have now won six matches by three goals or more so far this season.
They hit Bloomington with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Augustus Isada (2),
Zach Hermann,
Jose Covarrubias, and
Latrent Brock.
Urbana's win bumped their record up to 9-5-1. As for Richwoods, their victory bumped their record up to 7-3-3.
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