Soccer Game Preview: Porterville vs. Harvard-Westlake

The Porterville Panthers will challenge the Harvard-Westlake Wolverines at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams are coming into the game red-hot, with Porterville sitting on six straight wins and Harvard-Westlake on seven.

Porterville is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They had just enough and edged out Fresno 2-1. Given the Panthers' advantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 79th, while the Warriors are ranked 225th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.

Meanwhile, Harvard-Westlake kept a clean sheet against Jurupa Hills on Saturday. They won by a goal and slipped past the Spartans 1-0. That's two games straight that the Wolverines have won by just one goal.

Porterville's victory was their fourth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 22-3. As for Harvard-Westlake, their win bumped their record up to 15-5.