The Hope Christian Huskies have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Chaparral Lobos at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. Hope Christian is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 5.1 goals per game this season.
Hope Christian is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Mexico's top teams: Albuquerque Academy, who was ranked third in their home state at the time (Hope Christian was ranked 14th). Hope Christian fell just short of Albuquerque Academy by a score of 2-1 on Friday. Having soared to a lofty eight goals in the game before, the Huskies couldn't push the score so high this time.
Their goal came courtesy of
Manu Garbarino, who's now up to 11 this season.
Meanwhile, with a playoff game on the line, Chaparral rose to the challenge on Tuesday. They never let the Bobcats onto the board and left with a 3-0 victory. Winning may never get old, but the Lobos sure are getting used to it with their third in a row.
Hope Christian's loss dropped their record down to 14-5-1. As for Chaparral, they pushed their record up to 14-7 with the win, which was their fifth straight at home.
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