Valencia hasn't had much luck against St. Pius X recently, but that could start to change on Thursday. The Valencia Jaguars' road trip will continue as they head out to face the St. Pius X Sartans at 3:00 p.m. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Valencia's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. Everything went their way against Grants as Valencia made off with a 3-0 victory. The score was all tied up 0-0 at the break, but the Jaguars were the better team in the second half.
They hit Grants with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Joseph Palacios,
Bladimir Ramirez, and
Pecos Jones.
Meanwhile, St. Pius X had already won eight in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.3 goals) and they went ahead and made it nine on Tuesday. They put the hurt on the Pirates with a sharp 17-1 win. Considering the Sartans have won seven contests by more than two goals this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.
Valencia pushed their record up to 6-9-1 with the victory, which was their third straight on the road. As for St. Pius X, their win bumped their record up to 13-3.
Valencia suffered a grim 4-0 defeat to St. Pius X in their previous meeting two weeks ago. Can Valencia avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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