— Revenge might be a dish best served cold, but wet and warm suited the Jacksonville Armada just fine Wednesday night as it sank the Carolina RailHawks 3-0 at rainy Community First Park in Jacksonville, Fla. The result avenged the result, if not the score, of a 4-0 drubbing the RailHawks handed the Armada in Jacksonville three months ago.

The Carolina RailHawks have dropped all three road matches during the NASL fall season, after losing just one away game out of five during their spring campaign.

A back-and-forth beginning was broken in the 32nd minute when Akeil Barrett blasted a Shawn Nicklaw cross on goal. RailHawks goalkeeper Akira Fitzgerald made a reflexive save, but his rebound found the high boot of Jaime Castrillón, whose follow-up volley looped over Fitzgerald for a 1-0 Armada opening salvo.

Before Twitter could even catch, Jacksonville struck again. One minute later, Pascal Millien fed Barrett atop the box, and this time the Armada striker’s shot found a path through a cast of Hawks to double the home team’s lead entering intermission.

The onslaught continued in the 62nd. One minute after a RailHawks’ double substitution, Jemal Johnson uncorked an angled blast that flew across the face of goal and found the far right netting to extend the Armada advantage to 3-0.

Adding insult to inanity, RailHawks second-half substitution Daniel Scott was shown a straight red card in the 82nd minute for a studs-up slide tackle, two minutes after he entered the match.

The victory is only the second for Jacksonville (5-4-8, 19 pts.) out of their last 12 games. Meanwhile, the RailHawks (5-7-5, 22 pts.) are winless in their last three matches and slowly seeping away regular season points and sliding down the NASL combined standings.

Matters get no better for Carolina as it now travels to face FC Edmonton this Sunday. The RailHawks then return to WakeMed Soccer Park on Aug. 22 to host the New York Cosmos.

BOX SCORE

LINEUPS

CAR: Fitzgerald; Wagner, Danso, Tobin, Low (Scott, 78’); Shipalane, Hlavaty, Thompson, da Luz (Bracalello, 61’), Anderson (Albadawi, 61’); Novo

JAX: Sierra, Toby, Perea, Ortiz, Nicklaw, Barrett (Williams, 87’), Scaglia, Castrillon (Rodriguez, 83’), Johnson (Safi, 71’), Millien; Keita

GOALS

CAR: --

JAX: Castrillón, 32’; Barrett, 33’ (Millien); Johnson, 62’

CAUTIONS

CAR: Low (28’)

JAX: Castrillón (76’); Barrett (85’)

EJECTIONS

CAR: Scott (82’)

JAX: --

ATTENDANCE: 5,652