The Jacksonville Cardinals's homestand will continue as they prepare to take on the Smithfield-Selma Spartans at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Jacksonville is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.8 goals per game this season.
Last Tuesday, Jacksonville narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past J.H. Rose 2-1.
Haydon Huddleston and
Chase Crawford scored both of Jacksonville's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 20 goals.
Meanwhile, Smithfield-Selma kept a clean sheet against Southern Wayne last Thursday. They came out on top against the Saints by a score of 2-0. Given the Spartans' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 179th, while the Saints are ranked 362nd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Smithfield-Selma is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last ten matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 13-8-1 record this season. Those good results were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 36 goals over those ten matches. As for Jacksonville, their win was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 15-5-2.
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