Soccer Game Preview: Estancia vs. La Quinta

The Estancia Eagles will challenge the La Quinta Aztecs at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Estancia has four straight victories, La Quinta has nine straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the pitch.

Estancia is headed in fresh off scoring the most goals they have all season. They blew past Savanna 4-1 on Tuesday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest win of the season.

Meanwhile, La Quinta didn't have quite enough to beat Century on Tuesday and fell 3-2. While losing is never fun, the Aztecs can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 973rd, while the Centurions are ranked 464th).

The victory got Estancia back to even at 4-4-3. As for La Quinta, their loss dropped their record down to 1-11.