Riverside-Durham has enjoyed a four-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will take on the Chapel Hill Tigers at 6:45 p.m. on Friday. Riverside-Durham 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 152nd, while Chapel Hill is ranked seventh).
After failing to score in their last game, Riverside-Durham made sure to put some goals up on the board against Hillside on Tuesday. They never let the Hornets onto the board and left with a 5-0 win.
Riverside-Durham hit Hillside with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Michelle Velazquez (2),
Caroline Alcala Ruiz (2), and
Riley O?connor.
Meanwhile, Chapel Hill came tearing into Tuesday's match with four straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2.8 goals) and they left with even more momentum. They won by a goal and slipped past the Falcons 3-2.
The victory got Riverside-Durham back to even at 5-5-3. As for Chapel Hill, they pushed their record up to 8-1-1 with that win, which was their fourth straight at home.
Riverside-Durham might still be hurting after the 9-0 defeat they got from Chapel Hill when the teams last played back in May of 2023. Can Riverside-Durham avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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