The Heritage Patriots and the Hillcrest Trojans will compete for holiday cheer at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. Heritage's offense has struggled lately (the team hasn't scored more than a single goal for five straight games), a trend the team is no doubt ready to end.
Heritage is likely headed into the matchup with a focus on the second half, which is when things went downhill against Moreno Valley on Tuesday. Heritage fell 3-1 to Moreno Valley.
Meanwhile, Hillcrest didn't have quite enough to beat Corona on Wednesday and fell 3-2. While losing is never fun, the Trojans can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 465th, while the Panthers are ranked 191st).
Heritage's defeat dropped their record down to 1-8-2. As for Hillcrest, they now have a losing record at 3-4-3.
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