Ashe County is 0-10 against Watauga since March of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Ashe County Huskies will head out on the road to face off against the Watauga Pioneers at 6:00 p.m. Ashe County will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps North Carolina Rankings (they are ranked 206th, while Watauga is ranked 26th).
Ashe County took a loss when they played away from home on Thursday, but their home fans gave them all the motivation they needed on Monday. They never let South Caldwell onto the board and left with a 2-0 victory.
Meanwhile, Watauga can now show off 13 landslide victories after their most recent game on Monday. Everything went their way against Freedom as Watauga made off with a 9-0 win. The high-scoring effort was just what Watauga needed considering they were shutout in their previous match.
Their offense was hitting Freedom from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Morgan Flynt led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for three goals all by herself.
The victory got Ashe County back to even at 9-9-1. As for Watauga, they have been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six matchups, which somehow isn't as good as their 14-2-1 record this season.
Ashe County suffered a grim 4-0 defeat to Watauga when the teams last played back in April. Can Ashe County avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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