Soccer Game Preview: Porterville vs. Sanger West

The Porterville Panthers will venture away from home to challenge the Sanger West Hornets at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams beat their previous opponents by a single goal, so this matchup might be just as contested.

Porterville is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They came out on top in a nail-biter against South, sneaking past 2-1. Given the Panthers' advantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 163rd, while the Spartans are ranked 444th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Meanwhile, Sanger West had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2 goals) and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. They came within a single goal of losing the streak, but they secured a 3-2 W against the Panthers. Three seems to be a good number for the Hornets as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of goals in their previous game.

Sanger West's victory bumped their record up to 17-2. As for Porterville, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six games, which somehow still isn't as good as their 20-3 record this season.