The San Mateo Bearcats will take on the Saratoga Falcons in a holiday battle at at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. San Mateo's offense has struggled lately (the team hasn't scored more than a single goal for five straight games), a trend the team is no doubt ready to end.
San Mateo managed to keep up with El Camino until halftime on Friday, but things quickly went downhill from there. San Mateo came up short against El Camino, falling 5-1. While losing is never fun, the Bearcats can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 687th, while the Colts are ranked 208th).
Meanwhile, for the first time this season, Saratoga was forced to settle for a draw. Neither they nor Live Oak could gain the upper hand on Saturday so the two teams had to settle for a 0-0 draw.
Saratoga was without their leading scorer, Finn Smith, in Saturday's contest. With Smith sidelined, Itamar Shoshani got his first action of the season.
Saratoga's draw gives them a new season record of 2-2-1. As for San Mateo, their loss dropped their record down to 1-5.
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