The Rio Mesa Spartans will challenge the Ventura Cougars at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Neither team made it on the board the last time they hit the pitch, so they've probably got a bit of extra motivation.
Rio Mesa is likely headed into the match with a focus on the second half, which is when things went downhill against Santa Barbara on Friday. Rio Mesa fell just short of Santa Barbara by a score of 2-1. The Spartans have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Their goal came courtesy of Ricky Juarez-Cuevas, which was the first he's scored this season.
Meanwhile, Ventura managed to keep up with Pacifica until halftime on Friday, but things quickly went downhill from there. Ventura lost 4-1 to Pacifica. While losing is never fun, the Cougars can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 358th, while the Tritons are ranked 40th).
Rio Mesa's loss ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 14-13. As for Ventura, their defeat dropped their record down to 8-11-3.
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