Soccer Recap: More Drops Season-High Score on East Palo Alto Academy

Knights

Team Score

01/31/25 vs East Palo Alto Academy	11
01/22/25 vs KIPP Esperanza	8
01/09/25 vs Summit Shasta	6
01/08/25 @ East Palo Alto Academy	3
12/16/24 vs Design Tech	3

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask More). Their defense stepped up to hand the East Palo Alto Academy Bulldogs an 11-0 shutout on Friday. Apollonia Cortese was a massive factor in the win as she booted in three goals all by herself.

Something new happened on Friday as Gianna Naylor saw her first action of the season, playing 40 minutes against East Palo Alto Academy. Naylor made the most of the opportunity, scoring a goal A few more games like that and she might be seeing even more time going forward.

More is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 7-1-2 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 30 goals over those six contests. As for East Palo Alto Academy, they are on an eight-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 0-8.

When More and East Palo Alto Academy next hit the pitch, they'll be up against teams who recently just can't seem to lose. More will face off against Design Tech and their three-game winning streak at 2:30 p.m. on Monday. More is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 4 goals per game this season. Similarly, East Palo Alto Academy will try to stop The Nueva School's six-game winning streak when the meet at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday.