The Pflugerville Panthers are on the road again on Thursday to play the Shoemaker Wolves at 6:30 p.m. Pflugerville's offense has struggled lately (the team hasn't scored more than a single goal for three straight games), a trend the team is no doubt ready to end.
With a playoff game on the line, Pflugerville rose to the challenge on Monday. Their defense stepped up to hand the Raptors a 1-0 shutout. The victory was just what Pflugerville needed coming off of a 3-0 defeat in their prior game.
Meanwhile, Shoemaker's game on Tuesday was all tied up 0-0 at the half, but luckily for them it didn't stay that way. They came out on top against College Station by a score of 2-0. Two seems to be a good number for Shoemaker as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of goals in their previous game.
They were led to victory by the tag-team duo of
Jose Castillo and
Bryan Alonso Morera, who scored both of Shoemaker's goals. The pair have combined for a total of five so far this season.
Pflugerville's victory bumped their record up to 10-11-2. As for Shoemaker, they are on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matches, which provided a nice bump to their 13-9-2 record this season.
Everything went Pflugerville's way against Shoemaker when the teams last played back in January of 2016 as Pflugerville made off with an 8-0 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for Pflugerville since the team 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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