The Whitehouse Wildcats will head out on the road to take on the Nacogdoches Dragons at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Whitehouse put the finishing touches on their seventh blowout victory of the season on Wednesday. They never let Marshall onto the board and left with a 3-0 victory. Given Whitehouse's advantage in MaxPreps' Texas soccer rankings (they are ranked 171st, while Marshall is ranked 708th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Whitehouse was led to victory by the tag-team duo of
Takfarinas Kadi and
Aaron Cerda, who scored all three of Whitehouse's goals. The pair have combined for a total of 20 so far this season.
Meanwhile, Nacogdoches waltzed into their contest on Tuesday with two straight wins... but they left with three. They narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past the Bulldogs 1-0. That's two games straight that Nacogdoches has won by just one goal.
Whitehouse pushed their record up to 15-6-1 with that victory, which was their third straight at home. Those victories were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored ten goals over those three games. As for Nacogdoches, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a massive bump to their 13-6-3 record this season.
Whitehouse took their win against Nacogdoches in their previous meeting back in March of 2022 by a conclusive 4-1. The rematch might be a little tougher for Whitehouse since the squad won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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