Soccer Preview: Summit Tamalpais vs. Emery
The Summit Tamalpais Timberwolves will venture away from home to take on the Emery Spartans at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. Summit Tamalpais is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 4.5 goals per game this season.
Summit Tamalpais is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of California's top teams: Making Waves Academy, who was ranked eighth in their home state at the time (Summit Tamalpais was ranked 24th). Summit Tamalpais lost 6-3 to Making Waves Academy on Monday. Steven Ochoa probably wasn't too happy after the game: he scored every single goal for the Timberwolves and still walked away on the losing team.
Meanwhile, for the first time since back in September, Emery was forced to settle for a draw two weeks ago. Neither they nor Summit K2 could gain the upper hand so the two teams had to settle for a 2-2 draw.
Summit Tamalpais has been struggling recently as they've lost three of their last four contests, which put a noticeable dent in their 7-4 record this season. Emery's draw makes their record 5-5-2 this season.
Summit Tamalpais skirted past Emery 3-2 in their previous matchup on October 8th. Will Summit Tamalpais repeat their success, or does Emery have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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