Wheeling Park has enjoyed a three-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will venture away from home to challenge the Washington Patriots at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Wheeling Park is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of West Virginia's top teams: Winfield, who was ranked 11th in their home state at the time (Wheeling Park was ranked fourth). Wheeling Park blew past Winfield 4-1 on Saturday. The score was close at the half, but the Patriots pulled away in the second half with three goals.
They hit Winfield with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Julia Dunaway (2),
Brenna Tipton, and
Katelyn Smith.
Meanwhile, Washington entered their tilt with Martinsburg on Tuesday with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. They never let the Bulldogs onto the board and left with a 6-0 victory. The Patriots' defense has been rock solid lately; the team hasn't given up a goal in their last three matchups.
Wheeling Park pushed their record up to 13-4-1 with the win, which was their eighth straight at home. As for Washington, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 13-4-2 record this season.
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