The Horizon Scorpions will challenge the Americas Trail Blazers at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Horizon's offense has struggled lately (the team hasn't scored more than a single goal for 12 straight games), a trend the team is no doubt ready to end.
Tuesday just wasn't the day for Horizon's offense. They came up short against El Dorado on Tuesday, falling 8-0. That's two games in a row now that the Scorpions have lost by exactly eight goals.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Americas). Their defense stepped up to hand Bel Air a 6-0 shutout on Tuesday. Given the Trail Blazers' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas soccer rankings (they are ranked 240th, while the Highlanders are ranked 546th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
The win got Americas back to even at 5-5-2. As for Horizon, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-12.
Horizon suffered a grim 5-0 defeat to Americas when the teams last played back in January of 2016. Can Horizon avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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