The Merced Bears will head out on the road to square off against the Golden Valley Cougars at 5:45 p.m. on Friday. Merced is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last four games.
Merced's defense heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. They walked away with a 2-0 victory over Los Banos. That's two games straight that the Bears have won by exactly two goals.
Geovani Valencia and Alexander Castaneda scored both of Merced's goals, bringing their combined season tally to nine goals.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Golden Valley). They came out on top against Buhach Colony by a score of 5-3 on Wednesday.
The win was their first on the road , bumping their record up to 2-3-1. As for Merced, the victory got them back to even at 5-5-2.
Merced might still be hurting after the 7-2 defeat they got from Golden Valley in their previous meeting back in February of 2024. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point Merced was down 4-1.
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