The Cathedral Phantoms will challenge the Villa Park Spartans at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. Both teams beat their previous opponents by a single goal, so this matchup might be just as contested.
Cathedral is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Friday. They never let Servite onto the board and left with a 1-0 win. The score was all tied up 0-0 at the break, but the Phantoms were the better team in the second half.
Mauricio Parra Martinez, who's played more minutes than anyone else on the Cathedral squad sat out for Friday's matchup. With Parra Martinez sitting this one out, Hector Gutierrez got some extra time on the pitch (65 vs. his season average of 41.4). Gutierrez made the most of the opportunity, putting up one assist A few more games like that and he might be seeing even more time going forward.
Corona typically has all the answers at home, but on Thursday Villa Park proved too difficult a challenge. They won by a goal and slipped past the Panthers 3-2. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Spartans.
Cathedral is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a nice bump to their 11-4 record this season. The wins came thanks in part to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 29 goals over those seven games. As for Villa Park, their victory bumped their record up to 15-3.
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