Cardinals Journey to NC State

Last day trip for the Cardinals, they used a late equalizer to earn a 1-1 draw towards No. 3 Virginia Saturday at Lynn Stadium. After a scoreless first half, Virginia bought on the board first within the forty eighth minute after a shot deflected off a defender and ended up behind the web. The rating stayed 1-0 Virginia til the 86th minute when Amelia Swinarski scored her team-best eighth off the help from Brooklyn Lee. The draw was the Cardinals second-straight towards a ranked foe after the 1-1 highway draw with No. 13 Wake Forest on Oct. 9.

With simply two common season video games remaining, the Cardinals are positioning themselves to qualify for the ACC Tournament. Only the Top 6 groups make the ACC Women’s Soccer Tournament and the Cardinals are at present in a four-way tie for fourth place with 14 factors. One of the 4 groups tied with the Cardinals at 14 factors is NC State together with No. 11 Florida State and No. 3 Virginia. Thursday’s match may have massive implications on the ultimate ACC standings and finally who superior to the ACC Tournament.

NC State enters the match with a 5-6-4 general document however have turned it round in ACC play and have a 4-1-2 convention document. In convention play, they’ve wins over SMU (1-0), No. 12 Wake Forest (2-1), Boston College (1-0) and Pitt (1-0). They have attracts towards Virginia Tech (4-4) and No. 7 Florida State (1-1) and their lone convention loss is towards No. 6 Notre Dame (1-2). This would be the twelfth assembly all-time between the 2 groups and the sequence is tied 5-5-1. The Cardinals are 3-2 all-time in video games performed in Raleigh and have received every of the final two matchups towards the Wolfpack. It shall be their first journey to Raleigh since 2022 which resulted in a 1-0 Louisville win for head coach Karen Ferguson-Dayes two hundredth profession win with the Cards.