Walter Williams 1, Cedar Ridge 0: The hopes of Cedar Ridge to win its first conference championship in men’s soccer suffered a major blow on Wednesday night at Red Wolves Stadium. Anderson Aguilera fired in a shot from 17 yards off an assist from Bryan Isley with 6:47 remaining in regulation as Williams defeated the Red Wolves.
Cedar Ridge’s loss put Western Alamance in sole possession of first place in the Central Carolina Conference. On Wednesday, the Warriors rolled past Person 9-0.
The loss came two nights after Cedar Ridge played to a scoreless tie against Western Alamance in Elon. The Red Wolves simply needed to defeat Williams and Eastern Alamance in order to gain a share of the Central Carolina Conference championship.
Cedar Ridge can still claim a share of the championship with a win over Eastern Alamance on Tuesday night in Hillsborough, along with a loss by Western Alamance to Southern Alamance.
Cedar Ridge defeated Williams 2-1 in Burlington on September 25.
Orange 2, Eno River Academy 1: In the first-ever meeting between the two Hillsborough-based schools, the Panthers got the game-winning goal from Daniel Romero to defeat the Bobcats at soccer.com field in Efland. Traver Bruhns assisted on the game-winning goal as Orange won its third game in five days.
The Panthers defeated Walter Williams and Cedar Ridge leading up to the victory over the Bobcats.
Orange senior goalkeeper Finn Kelly, who plays at the North Carolina FC Academy, earned the victory in net, making seven saves.
Southern Alamance 3, Orange 0: On its senior night on Monday night, the Panthers fell behind early and suffered a loss to the Patriots. Evan Benthe scored the game-winning goal off an assist from Heinzen Amaya. Billy Clark and Nicola Sansovivi also had goals for the Patriots.
Orange, who defeated Southern Alamance 3-2 on September 20 in Graham, got seven saves from Kelly.
Orange 1, Eastern Alamance 1: Emmanuel Mil Cruz notched the equalizing goal for Orange in its final home game of the season on Thursday night. Mil Cruz’s goal was his fifth of the year.
Eastern Alamance opened the scoring in the first half. The Panthers are 7-7-3 overall, 5-4-2 in the CCC. The Panthers will wrap up the regular season with another game against Eastern Alamance on Monday night in Mebane.