The Granite Bay Grizzlies will be staying on the road on Saturday to face off against the St. Francis Troubadours at 1:00 p.m. on February 24th. Granite Bay will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps California Rankings (they are ranked 88th, while St. Francis is ranked 31st).
Two teams were on the hunt for playoff glory, but unfortunately neither team quite found what they we're looking for on Friday. Granite Bay and Rocklin finished up their matchup with a 2-2 draw. While a more conclusive result would've been nice, Granite Bay got plenty of practice considering the match was the highest-scoring draw the team's played all season.
R Gotchall was the only thing that stood between Granite Bay and a shutout considering she scored both of Granite Bay's goals. With that big game, she's now up to five goals this season.
Meanwhile, St. Francis had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.5 goals), and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. Their defense stepped up to hand Vacaville a 1-0 shutout. St. Francis found success even though the refs didn't miss a thing: three St. Francis players were handed yellow cards.
With that draw, Granite Bay's record moves to 8-5-6. As for St. Francis, their victory was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 19-4-3.
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