Preview: Cleveland vs. GALA
The Cleveland Cavaliers are on the road again on Saturday and plays the GALA Goddesses at 1:00 p.m. on February 17th. Cleveland will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more goals each game than the last.
It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Cleveland had no problem doing just that on Thursday. Their defense stepped up to hand the Unicorns a 5-0 shutout. Given Cleveland's advantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 125th, while Los Angeles CES is ranked 330th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Cleveland hit Los Angeles CES with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Luria Balaban (2),
Grace Burgos,
Yesenia Gomez, and
Naomi Sweeney.
Meanwhile, GALA's game on Thursday was all tied up 1-1 at the half, but luckily for them it didn't stay that way. They came out on top against Kennedy by a score of 3-1. The victory made it back-to-back wins for GALA.
Cleveland's victory bumped their record up to 15-4-4. As for GALA, they pushed their record up to 12-3-3 with that victory, which was their fifth straight at home.
Everything went Cleveland's way against GALA when the teams last played back in January as Cleveland made off with a 4-1 win. Will Cleveland repeat their success, or does GALA have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
