The Salado Eagles will head out on the road to take on the Stephenville Yellow Jackets/Honeybees at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Salado sitting on six straight victories and Stephenville on five.
Last Tuesday, Salado kept a clean sheet against Lampasas. They walked away with a 2-0 win over the Badgers. Two seems to be a good number for Salado as the team scooped up a victory with the same number of goals in their previous game.
Thaddeus Heckman was the driving force of Salado's attack as he scored both of Salado's goals. With that big game he's now up to 35 goals this season.
Meanwhile, Stephenville stacked a sixth blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Tuesday. They blew past Brownwood 4-0. Given Stephenville's advantage in MaxPreps' Texas soccer rankings (they are ranked 204th, while Brownwood is ranked 605th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Salado pushed their record up to 19-1-1 with that victory, which was their ninth straight on the road. Those victories were due in large part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 58 goals over those nine matches. As for Stephenville, they are on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 13-3-2 record this season.
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