After three games on the road, Oscar Smith is heading back home. They will take on the Great Bridge Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Oscar Smith will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Virginia Rankings (they are ranked 198th, while Great Bridge is ranked 13th).
Oscar Smith is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to six goals on Thursday, they were much more limited against Western Branch on Tuesday. They lost 8-0 to the Bruins. Oscar Smith has not had much luck with Western Branch recently, as the team's come up short the last four times they've met.
Meanwhile, Great Bridge stacked a seventh blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Tuesday. They never let Deep Creek onto the board and left with an 8-0 victory. Give Great Bridge's defense some credit: that's the team's fifth straight shutout.
They hit Deep Creek with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Audrey Orrock (4),
Mia Grieco (2),
Maya Carmona, and
Soleila Ryals.
Oscar Smith's loss dropped their record down to 4-9-1. As for Great Bridge, they pushed their record up to 10-1-2 with that win, which was their sixth straight on the road.
Oscar Smith might still be hurting after the 9-1 defeat they got from Great Bridge in their previous matchup back in May of 2023. That match was all but decided by halftime, at which point Oscar Smith was down 4-1.
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