Semifinal showdown: Sporting Jax women meet Carolina in playoffs
Sporting Club Jacksonville women's soccer is set for its first Gainbridge Super League playoff game, at UNF against the Carolina Ascent on Sunday.
Ahead of the First Coast's first-ever women's soccer playoff, the tactical chess game has begun. And Sporting Club Jacksonville coach Stacey Balaam is ready for it. "That's the challenge for coaches," Balaam said.
"That's what makes our job fun. " One week after Carolina Ascent FC knocked them from the top spot in the Gainbridge Super League, Sporting Jax gets an instant rematch in a playoff semifinal that will make Northeast Florida history. Kickoff is 5 p.
m. Sunday, May 24, at the University of North Florida's Hodges Stadium. There, a win launches the first-year Sporting Jax women, who led the league for much of the season, into the May 30 championship game against Lexington SC or Dallas Trinity.
But to get there, they must overcome the team that stung them last time out. Will Sporting Jax respond with a lineup switch or two? Does Carolina try to anticipate that with changes of their own?