Northside - Jacksonville has enjoyed a three-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will venture away from home to challenge the J.H. Rose Rampants at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both are strolling into their matchups after big wins in their previous games.
Northside - Jacksonville's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. Everything went their way against Havelock as Northside - Jacksonville made off with a 3-0 win. The score was all tied up 0-0 at the break, but the Monarchs were the better team in the second half.
Meanwhile, J.H. Rose came tearing into Tuesday's game with six straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.2 goals) and they left with even more momentum. They blew past the Bears 5-1. The result was nothing new for the Rampants, who have now won nine contests by three goals or more so far this season.
They hit New Bern with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Julius Jones (2),
Sean Smith,
Isaac Dameron, and
Walid Belahchich.
The victory got Northside - Jacksonville back to even at 8-8-2. As for J.H. Rose, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 12-5-1 record this season.
Northside - Jacksonville suffered a grim 6-1 defeat to J.H. Rose in their previous matchup two weeks ago. That match was all but decided by halftime, at which point Northside - Jacksonville was down 4-0.
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