The Santa Fe Demons will square off against the Sandia Matadors at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Santa Fe is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 2.6 goals per game this season.
Santa Fe is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of New Mexico's top teams: La Cueva, who was ranked first at the time (Santa Fe was ranked 25th). The Demons lost 6-3 to the Bears on Saturday. Santa Fe haven't had much luck with La Cueva recently, as the team has come up short the last three times they've met.
Luis Ruano and Jasper Wiltenburg scored all three of Santa Fe's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 21 goals.
Meanwhile, Sandia entered their tilt with Eldorado on Saturday with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. They never let the Golden Eagles get on the board and left with a 1-0 victory. The score was all tied up 0-0 at the break, but Sandia were the better team in the second half.
Sandia's win bumped their record up to 10-2-2. As for Santa Fe, their defeat dropped their record down to 6-8.
Santa Fe beat Sandia by a goal in their previous meeting back in October of 2024, winning 3-2. Will the Demons repeat their success, or do the Matadors have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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