Soccer Preview: Crested Butte vs. Telluride
After two games on the road, Crested Butte is heading back home. They will welcome the Telluride Miners at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are strolling into their matches after big wins in their previous games.
Crested Butte will roll into the contest after a wild two-game stretch: they only put up one goal on Saturday, then bounced right back against Ridgway on Tuesday. Crested Butte was the clear victor by a 4-1 margin over Ridgway. Given the Titans' advantage in MaxPreps' Colorado soccer rankings (they are ranked 19th, while the Demons are ranked 155th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Telluride). They never let Caprock Academy onto the board and left with a 7-0 victory on Friday. With that win, the Miners brought their scoring average up to 3 goals per game.
Their offense was hitting Caprock Academy from everywhere, as five different players booted in a goal.
Diego Montano led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for two goals all by himself.
Crested Butte's victory bumped their record up to 8-1-1. As for Telluride, the win got them back to even at 2-2-3.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
