Bakersfield hasn't had much luck against Ridgeview recently, but that could start to change on Thursday. The Bakersfield Drillers will venture away from home to face off against the Ridgeview Wolf Pack at 6:00 p.m. Both come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Bakersfield's defense heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. They walked away with a 2-0 victory over Bakersfield Christian. That's two games straight that the Drillers have won by exactly two goals.
Meanwhile, Ridgeview entered their tilt with Stockdale on Tuesday with four consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with five. They skirted past the Mustangs 3-2. Given the Wolf Pack's advantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 43rd, while the Mustangs are ranked 136th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Ridgeview hit Stockdale with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from Aiden Macias, Javier Villatoro, and Angel Ceballos.
Ridgeview pushed their record up to 14-2-1 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road. The wins came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 24 goals over those seven contests. As for Bakersfield, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 11-8-7.
Bakersfield suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Ridgeview when the teams last played back in January. Can Bakersfield avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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