The Jacksonville Cardinals's road trip will continue as they head out to face the J.H. Rose Rampants at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Jacksonville's defense heads into the matchup hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Monday. They put the hurt on Northside - Jacksonville with a sharp 3-0 victory. Given the Cardinals' advantage in MaxPreps' North Carolina soccer rankings (they are ranked 84th, while the Monarchs are ranked 271st), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Cade Hodnefield and
Ryan Hanks scored all three of Jacksonville's goals, bringing their combined season tally to seven goals.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask J.H. Rose). They blew past Havelock 7-0 on Wednesday. The Rampants might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won five matches by three goals or more this season.
Jacksonville's win bumped their record up to 7-4-2. As for J.H. Rose, they pushed their record up to 7-5-1 with the victory, which was their third straight at home.
Jacksonville might still be hurting after the 5-0 defeat they got from J.H. Rose when the teams last played back in November of 2023. Can Jacksonville avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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