Soccer Preview: Cibola vs. Volcano Vista
The Cibola Cougars are taking a road trip to take on the Volcano Vista Hawks at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.
Cibola is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Mexico's top teams: Farmington, who was ranked 15th in their home state at the time (Cibola was ranked 12th). Cibola never let Farmington onto the board and left with a 6-0 win on Saturday. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Cougars considering their one-goal performance the game before.
Their offense was hitting Farmington from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Lisa Torres led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by herself.
Meanwhile, Volcano Vista had already won four in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2.3 goals) and they went ahead and made it five on Saturday. They blew past the Storm 3-0. That's two games straight that the Hawks have won by exactly three goals.
Cibola's victory bumped their record up to 8-4-2. As for Volcano Vista, they pushed their record up to 10-4 with the win, which was their seventh straight at home.
Cibola might still be hurting after the 6-1 loss they got from Volcano Vista in their previous meeting back in September. Can Cibola avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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