Gatesville is 0-10 against Salado since January of 2016 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The Gatesville Hornets are on the road again and plays the Salado Eagles at 7:00 p.m. on March 12th. Gatesville will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Texas Rankings (they are ranked 385th, while Salado is ranked 87th).
While the 1-1 score might suggest a draw, it was Brownwood who was credited with the win.
Salado had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.8 goals), and they went ahead and made it seven on Friday. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 4-3 win over Stephenville.
Salado hit Stephenville with a four-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Devonte Foster,
Gabriel Merriman,
Cody Roquemore, and
Thaddeus Heckman.
Gatesville's loss dropped their record down to 10-6-1. As for Salado, they pushed their record up to 20-1-1 with that victory, which was their tenth straight on the road.
Gatesville came up short against Salado when the teams last played back in February, falling 3-1. Can Gatesville avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
