The Wyoming Valley West Spartans will venture away from home to challenge the Dallas Mountaineers at 6:15 p.m. on Friday. Keep an eye on the score for this one: both posted some lofty goal totals in their previous games.
Wyoming Valley West is likely headed into the match with a focus on the second half, which is when things went downhill against Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday. Wyoming Valley West fell just short of Wilkes-Barre by a score of 5-4. The Spartans have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Meanwhile, Dallas' matchup on Saturday was close up to the half, which is when they kicked things up a notch. They put the hurt on Crestwood with a sharp 4-1 victory. Given the Mountaineers' advantage in MaxPreps' Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 52nd, while the Comets are ranked 238th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Wyoming Valley West's loss dropped their record down to 8-5-1. As for Dallas, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight contests, which provided a nice bump to their 8-3-1 record this season.
Wyoming Valley West suffered a grim 7-1 defeat to Dallas in their previous matchup on Thursday. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point Wyoming Valley West was down 5-0.
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