Holmes is 0-10 against First Flight since October of 2015 but things could change on Monday. The Holmes Aces have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the First Flight Nighthawks at 5:00 p.m. Holmes is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 6.1 goals per game this season.
On Thursday, Holmes didn't have quite enough to beat Currituck County and fell 3-2. Both teams had to tread carefully at times as the refs weren't afraid to hand out yellow cards: Holden Ford was handed one for the Aces, while the Knights got theirs courtesy of Luca Costanzo.
Linus Wedemann and
Ayden Furlough scored both of Holmes' goals, bringing their combined season tally to 32 goals.
Meanwhile, First Flight put another one in the bag on Thursday to keep their perfect season alive. They won by a goal and slipped past Croatan 2-1. Given the Nighthawks' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 14th, while the Cougars are ranked 77th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Holmes' defeat ended a four-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 11-4. As for First Flight, their win was their fifth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 8-0.
Holmes suffered a grim 9-0 defeat to First Flight when the teams last played back in October of 2023. Can Holmes avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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