The Gloucester Catholic Rams will venture away from home to face off against the Holy Cross Lancers on Thursday. Gloucester Catholic'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.
Gloucester Catholic managed to keep up with Palmyra until halftime last Tuesday, but things quickly went downhill from there. Gloucester Catholic lost 3-0 to Palmyra. While losing is never fun, the Rams can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' New Jersey soccer rankings (they are ranked 232nd, while the Panthers are ranked 102nd).
Meanwhile, Holy Cross came tearing into Friday's contest with five straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4.4 goals) and they left with even more momentum. Their defense stepped up to hand the Dragons a 2-0 shutout.
Gloucester Catholic's defeat dropped their record down to 8-5-2. As for Holy Cross, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 12 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 13-3 record this season.
Gloucester Catholic suffered a grim 6-0 defeat to Holy Cross in their previous meeting back in September of 2015. Can Gloucester Catholic avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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