Taft lost against Birmingham back in January and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Wednesday. The Taft Toreadors fell 2-0 to the Birmingham Patriots. While losing is never fun, the Toreadors can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 522nd, while the Patriots are ranked fifth).
Taft was without their leading scorer, Nick Kosouk, in Wednesday's contest. With Kosouk sitting this one out, Brandon Golovaty got some extra time on the pitch (80 vs. his season average of 48.8).
Taft's loss was their sixth straight on the road, which dropped their record down to 5-10-2. As for Birmingham, the win was the seventh in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 20-2.
Taft has already played their next matchup (against Chatsworth), but no score has been uploaded at the time of writing. Birmingham is taking a road trip to take on Cleveland at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Birmingham is facing Cleveland at the right time seeing as Cleveland is stuck on a three-game losing streak.
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