Riverside-Durham is on a three-game streak of home losses, Northern Durham a five-game streak of away losses, but someone's luck is about to change. The Riverside-Durham Pirates will take on the Northern Durham Knights at 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
Riverside-Durham is likely headed into the game with a focus on the second half, which is when things went downhill against East Chapel Hill on Tuesday. Riverside-Durham fell just short of East Chapel Hill by a score of 2-1. That's two games in a row now that Riverside-Durham has lost by just one goal.
Their goal came courtesy of
Zoe Cordell, who's now up to five this season.
Meanwhile, Monday just wasn't the day for Northern Durham's offense. They lost 9-0 to Jordan on Monday. While losing is never fun, Northern Durham can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 410th, while Jordan is ranked 87th).
Riverside-Durham's defeat dropped their record down to 7-11-3. As for Northern Durham, their loss dropped their record down to 1-16-1.
Riverside-Durham took their victory against Northern Durham in their previous matchup back in April by a conclusive 8-0. Does Riverside-Durham have another victory up their sleeve, or will Northern Durham turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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