Soccer Preview: Shadow Ridge vs. Faith Lutheran
After starting their season with four straight games on the road, Shadow Ridge is finally coming home. They will look to take advantage of their home-pitch as they take on the Faith Lutheran Crusaders at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Neither team made it on the board the last time they hit the pitch, so they've probably got a bit of extra motivation.
Shadow Ridge is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Nevada's top teams: Green Valley, who was ranked 12th in their home state at the time (Shadow Ridge was ranked 19th). Shadow Ridge fell just short of Green Valley by a score of 2-1 on Saturday. The matchup was a 1-1 toss-up at halftime, but the Mustangs couldn't quite close it out.
Their goal came courtesy of
Austin Labrum, which was the first he's scored this season.
Meanwhile, Faith Lutheran was not able to break out of their rough patch last Saturday as the team picked up their fourth straight defeat. They lost 3-0 to Reed. While losing is never fun, the Crusaders can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Nevada soccer rankings (they are ranked 33rd, while the Raiders are ranked fourth).
Shadow Ridge now has a losing record at 1-2-1. As for Faith Lutheran, their loss dropped their record down to 0-4.
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