The Salado Eagles will venture away from home to face off against the Giddings Buffaloes at 7:15 p.m. on Monday. Salado is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 3.8 goals per game this season.
If Giddings heads into halftime all tied up, they better play a good second half: that's when Salado took over last week. Salado never let Taylor get on the board and left with a 2-0 win on Tuesday. Given the Eagles' advantage in MaxPreps' Texas soccer rankings (they are ranked 146th, while the Ducks are ranked 454th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Peyton Bivens and Luke Munson scored both of Salado's goals, bringing their combined season tally to seven goals.
Meanwhile, Giddings had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2.5 goals) and they went ahead and made it three on Monday. They came within a single goal of losing the streak, but they secured a 2-1 W against the Leopards. Two seems to be a good number for the Buffaloes as the squad scooped up a victory with the same number of goals in their previous game.
Salado is on a roll lately: they've won 13 of their last 14 matches. That's provided a nice bump to their 17-3-3 record this season. The wins came thanks in part to their defensive effort, having only given up six goals over those 14 contests. Giddings' win bumped their record up to 12-7.
Everything went Salado's way against Giddings in their previous meeting back in February, as Salado made off with a 4-0 victory. The rematch might be a little tougher for Salado since the team won't have the home-pitch advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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