Soccer Game Preview: Liberty Ranch vs. Summerville

The Liberty Ranch Hawks will square off against the Summerville Bears at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both squads will be entering this one on the heels of a big victory.

Liberty Ranch is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. Their defense stepped up to hand Sutter a 4-0 shutout. The high-flying offensive performance was a huge turnaround for the Hawks considering their one-goal performance the match before.

They hit Sutter with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from Juliana Romero, Serena Tarifa, Astrid Calderon, and Libby Portillo.

Meanwhile, Summerville had already won 11 in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.7 goals) and they went ahead and made it 12 on Tuesday. They blew past the Reds 4-0. Give the Bears' defense some credit: that's the team's fourth straight shutout.

Summerville pushed their record up to 13-6 with the victory, which was their sixth straight on the road. The wins came thanks in part to their defensive effort, having only given up one goal over those six contests. As for Liberty Ranch, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 13-7.