The Animo Bunche Stallions are taking a road trip to face off against the Orthopaedic Vipers at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Animo Bunche is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.2 goals per game this season.
Animo Bunche will bounce into Wednesday's contest after beating USC-MAE, who they had gone 2-7 against in their nine prior meetings. Animo Bunche blew past USC-MAE 4-1 on Thursday. Given the Stallions' advantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 491st, while the Trojans are ranked 1043rd), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Jaylin Zepeda and Alison Villasenor scored all four of Animo Bunche's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 16 goals.
Meanwhile, Orthopaedic had already won two in a row and they went ahead and made it three on Monday. They walked away with a 3-1 victory over the Panthers.
Animo Bunche has also been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matches, which provided a nice bump to their 10-1-2 record this season. As for Orthopaedic, they pushed their record up to 10-4-1 with the win, which was their third straight on the road.
Animo Bunche took their victory against Orthopaedic when the teams last played back in January by a conclusive 3-0. The rematch might be a little tougher for Animo Bunche since the squad won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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