Narbonne and Banning are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2019, but likely not for long. The Narbonne Gauchos will head out to take on the Banning Pilots at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Narbonne has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the contest with eight straight losses, while Banning will come in with three straight wins.
Last Friday, Narbonne came up short against Gardena and fell 5-3. While losing is never fun, the Gauchos can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 903rd, while the Panthers are ranked 249th).
Meanwhile, Banning kept a clean sheet against Rancho Dominguez on Monday. Everything went their way against the Lobos as they made off with a 10-0 victory. Considering the Pilots have won ten games by more than two goals this season, Monday's blowout was nothing new.
Their offense was hitting Rancho Dominguez from everywhere, as six different players booted in a goal. Tracy Almazan led that balanced group of strikers and accounted for three goals all by herself.
Banning has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten matches, which provided a nice bump to their 17-5 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 55 goals over those ten contests. As for Narbonne, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-9-1.
Narbonne might still be hurting after the 8-1 loss they got from Banning in their previous matchup back in January. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point Narbonne was down 4-1.
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