The Deming Wildcats have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Alamogordo Tigers at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday.
Deming's offense might be in the hot seat on Thursday considering what happened against Gadsden on Tuesday. They fell 2-0 to the Panthers. While losing is never fun, the Wildcats can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' New Mexico soccer rankings (they are ranked 43rd, while the Panthers are ranked fifth).
Meanwhile, Alamogordo had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6.5 goals), and they went ahead and made it three on Saturday. Their defense stepped up to hand the Warriors a 5-0 shutout. The result was nothing new for the Tigers, who have now won four games by five goals or more so far this season.
They hit Ruidoso with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from
Leonard Rick (2),
Ryan Amberson (2), and
Kyle Tamayo.
Deming now has a losing record at 6-7. As for Alamogordo, they now have a winning record of 4-3.
Deming took their victory against Alamogordo when the teams last played back in August of 2023 by a conclusive 11-1. In that contest, Deming amassed a halftime lead of 5-1, an impressive feat they'll look to repeat on Thursday.
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