The Buchanan Bears and the Hoover Patriots will round out the year against one another at at 12:00 p.m. on Friday. Buchanan will be coming into the match with an undefeated record on the line.
Buchanan is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of California's top teams: McLane, who was ranked 24th at the time (Buchanan was ranked tenth). Buchanan never let McLane onto the board and left with a 2-0 victory on Friday. That's two games straight that the Bears have won by exactly two goals.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Hoover). Everything went their way against Liberty on Friday as Hoover made off with a 6-1 win. The Patriots might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won three games by three goals or more this season.
Hoover has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four contests, which provided a nice bump to their 5-4 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 14 goals over those four matchups. As for Buchanan, their victory bumped their record up to 10-0-1.
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