Soccer Preview: Centennial vs. Organ Mountain
The Centennial Hawks will challenge the Organ Mountain Knights at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. Centennial is currently enjoying a perfect season and no doubt wants to keep things rolling.
Centennial is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Mexico's top teams: Gadsden, who was ranked ninth in their home state at the time (Centennial was ranked second). Centennial's defense stepped up to hand Gadsden a 2-0 shutout on Tuesday. The score was all tied up 0-0 at the break, but the Hawks were the better team in the second half.
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Organ Mountain, who bounced back after a loss on the road on Saturday. They blew past Las Cruces 6-0 on Tuesday. Considering the Knights have won five matches by more than two goals this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.
Their offense was hitting Las Cruces from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Oscar Valtierra led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Centennial pushed their record up to 13-0 with the victory, which was their eighth straight on the road. As for Organ Mountain, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-5 record this season.
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