The Pacific Pirates and the Arroyo Valley Hawks will compete for holiday cheer at 5:45 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Pacific is headed in fresh off scoring the most goals they have all season. Their defense stepped up to hand Entrepreneur a 14-0 shutout on Tuesday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest win of the season.
Meanwhile, Arroyo Valley made easy work of Redlands on Tuesday and carried off a 7-2 victory. The result was nothing new for the Hawks, who have now won four matches by three goals or more so far this season.
Arroyo Valley is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four contests, which provided a nice bump to their 5-3-1 record this season. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 15 goals over those four games. As for Pacific, their win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 4-3-2.
Pacific came up short against Arroyo Valley when the teams last played back in December of 2019, falling 2-0. Can Pacific avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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