The Sandia Prep Sundevils will square off against the Portales Rams at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
Sandia Prep is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Mexico's top teams: Santa Fe, who was ranked 16th in their home state at the time (Sandia Prep was ranked 25th). Sandia Prep fell just short of Santa Fe by a score of 3-2 on Friday. Both teams had to tread carefully at times as the refs weren't afraid to hand out yellow cards: Aiden Vanderwoude was handed one for the Sundevils, while the Demons got theirs courtesy of Gustavo Medina.
Ryan Williams and
Will Collins scored both of Sandia Prep's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 16 goals.
Meanwhile, Portales was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their fourth straight loss. They lost 9-0 to Rio Grande. While losing is never fun, the Rams can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' New Mexico soccer rankings (they are ranked 50th, while the Ravens are ranked eighth).
Sandia Prep now has a losing record at 3-4-2. As for Portales, they now have a losing record at 4-5.
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