The Carmel Padres will challenge the Gonzales Spartans at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams are coming into the match red-hot, with Carmel sitting on four straight victories and Gonzales on three.
Carmel's defense heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Friday. They walked away with a 2-0 win over North Monterey County. That's two games straight that the Padres have won by exactly two goals.
Meanwhile, Gonzales won against Monte Vista Christian on Wednesday with three goals and they decided to stick to that goal total again on Friday. Everything went Gonzales' way against Ceiba College Preparatory Academy as Gonzales made off with a 3-0 victory. Given Gonzales' advantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 287th, while Ceiba College Preparatory Academy is ranked 1059th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Gonzales hit Ceiba College Preparatory Academy with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from Edgar Santiago, Miguel Ibarra, and Ulisses Mancillas.
Carmel's win bumped their record up to 5-2-1. As for Gonzales, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 7-2-3 record this season.
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