The Shadow Hills Knights will face off against the Palm Desert Aztecs at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Shadow Hills will be strutting in after a victory while Palm Desert will be coming in after a loss.
Palm Desert will be up against a hot Shadow Hills team: the squad just extended their winning streak to three. Shadow Hills never let Xavier Prep onto the board and left with a 5-0 win on Monday. The Knights might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won five matches by four goals or more this season.
Meanwhile, Palm Desert fought the good fight in their overtime game against Rancho Mirage on Monday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Rattlers by a score of 4-3. While losing is never fun, the Aztecs can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 509th, while the Rattlers are ranked 213th).
Shadow Hills pushed their record up to 12-3-1 with the victory, which was their seventh straight on the road. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 32 goals over those seven contests. As for Palm Desert, they now have a losing record at 8-9-4.
Shadow Hills came out on top in a nail-biter against Palm Desert in their previous matchup two weeks ago, sneaking past 5-4. Does Shadow Hills have another victory up their sleeve, or will Palm Desert turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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