The Coronado Cougars will square off against the Bishop Gorman Gaels at 4:00 p.m. on Monday.
Coronado is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Nevada's top teams: Faith Lutheran, who was ranked first in their home state at the time (Coronado was ranked fifth). Coronado fell just short of Faith Lutheran by a score of 1-0 on Thursday. Having soared to a lofty four goals in the game before, the Cougars' shutout was a dramatic turnaround.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Bishop Gorman). Their defense stepped up to hand Cimarron-Memorial an 8-0 shutout on Thursday. Give the Gaels' defense some credit: that's the team's fourth straight shutout.
Their offense was hitting Cimarron-Memorial from everywhere, as six different players booted in a goal.
Stephenie Hackett led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for three goals all by herself.
Coronado's loss dropped their record down to 13-5-1. As for Bishop Gorman, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 15-4-1 record this season.
Coronado came up short against Bishop Gorman in their previous meeting back in September, falling 3-1. Can Coronado avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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