The Dan River Wildcats will head out on the road to challenge the Nelson County Governors at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, the two teams will really light up the scoreboard.
Dan River is headed into the game fresh off scoring the most goals they have all season. Their defense stepped up to hand Galileo a 5-0 shutout on Friday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest win of the season.
Meanwhile, Nelson County stacked a tenth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Monday. They put the hurt on Galileo with a sharp 8-0 victory. Given Nelson County's advantage in MaxPreps' Virginia soccer rankings (they are ranked 138th, while Galileo is ranked 328th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Nelson County's offense was hitting Galileo from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Hazel Donovan led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by herself.
Dan River's win ended a four-game drought at home and bumped them up to 3-7-3. As for Nelson County, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 12 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-4-1 record this season.
Dan River suffered a grim 4-0 defeat to Nelson County when the teams last played back in April. Can Dan River avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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