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Charlotte Visits Charleston for Critical Match

July 10, 2014 - United Soccer League Championship (USL)
Charleston Battery News Release


CHARLESTON, SC - The 10th-place Charlotte Eagles visit the 11th-place Charleston Battery at Blackbaud Stadium on Saturday with the old rivals separated by a single point, and both within range of a USL PRO playoff spot.

Gates open at 6 p.m. ahead of a 7:30 kickoff [$10-$18, 971-GOAL (4625), www.charlestonbattery.com].

This is the return match for Charleston's 3-1 road loss at Charlotte on June 21, and will be the final regular season meeting of 2014 for the two traditional foes. The series is one of the oldest continuous rivalries in North American soccer. Charlotte was founded in 1991, the Battery in 1993.

Charleston (4-7-4, with 16 points on 15 games) enters the match on its only two-game league slide of the season. The streak began at Charlotte and continued last weekend at Harrisburg, when the City Islanders dispatched the Battery 4-1. An intervening home match with Richmond on June 27 was rescheduled to July 22 by an electrical storm.

Charlotte (5-9-2, 17 points on 16 matches) has been up and down since the clubs last met, drawing Harrisburg and beating Rochester away, but then dropping a promising home date with Dayton 3-1 on July 5.

Expansion club Oklahoma City Energy currently hold the 8th and final playoff position with 18 points on 15 matches, but four teams are within three points of overtaking them.

Charleston Coach Mike Anhaeuser spent the week preparing for Charlotte's style of play. "They beat us at their place, and we want to get even," he said.

Players from both squads will miss the match with suspensions. Charleston's Amadou Sanyang will miss the match on yellow card accumulation, while Charleston attacking midfielder Andre Lewis and Charlotte goalkeeper Alec Kann will sit out the match on red cards from July 5.

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