Collegiate has gone 10-0 against Benedictine recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Thursday. The Collegiate Cougars will take on the Benedictine Cadets at 4:30 p.m. Collegiate is currently enjoying a perfect season and no doubt wants to keep things rolling.
Collegiate is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Virginia's top teams: St. Anne's-Belfield, who was ranked 14th in their home state at the time (Collegiate was ranked second). Collegiate sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 2-1 victory over St. Anne's-Belfield on Tuesday. That's two games straight that the Cougars have won by just one goal.
Joshua Parker and
Peter Hartmann scored both of Collegiate's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 25 goals.
Meanwhile, after soaring to four goals the game before, Benedictine was a bit more limited in their matchup on Thursday. They fell just short of Collegiate by a score of 1-0.
Collegiate is on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 11-0-3 record this season. As for Benedictine, their defeat dropped their record down to 8-4-1.
Collegiate skirted past Benedictine 1-0 in their previous matchup on Thursday. The rematch might be a little tougher for Collegiate since the team won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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