The Torres Toros will head out on the road to face off against the Sanger Apaches at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Neither squad made it on the board the last time they hit the pitch, so they've probably got a bit of extra motivation.
Torres' defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Kingsburg, sneaking past 1-0. Given the Toros' advantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 241st, while the Vikings are ranked 659th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Meanwhile, Sanger hasn't lost a match since December 7, 2024, a trend which continued in their latest game on Tuesday. They skirted past Hanford 1-0. The score was all tied up 0-0 at the break, but the Apaches were the better team in the second half.
Their one-goal win came courtesy of Abby Cano, who's now up to nine this season.
Sanger is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 11-1-2 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 39 goals over those ten contests. As for Torres, the win made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 5-2.
Torres suffered a grim 5-1 defeat to Sanger when the teams last played back in December of 2024. That matchup was all but decided by halftime, at which point Torres was down 3-0.
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