Soccer Recap: Thursday's Win Is Dougherty Valley's Eighth in Last Nine Outings

Dougherty Valley kept a clean sheet against California on Thursday. They walked away with a 2-0 win over the California Grizzlies. Given the Wildcats' advantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 33rd, while the Grizzlies are ranked 313th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Ricardo Feliciano and Brian Ayabe scored both of Dougherty Valley's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 16 goals.

Dougherty Valley has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine contests, which provided a nice bump to their 12-2-2 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 28 goals over those nine games. As for California, they dropped their record down to 8-6-5 with the defeat, which was their third straight on the road.

Dougherty Valley has already played their next match (against Amador Valley), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. California has also has no score uploaded for their next contest, this one against Liberty.