Salesian and Bishop Amat are an even 5-5 against one another since January of 2020, but likely not for long. The Salesian Mustangs will venture away from home to square off against the Bishop Amat Lancers at 3:30 p.m. on Friday.
Wednesday just wasn't the day for Salesian's offense. They fell 2-0 to Cathedral on Wednesday. While losing is never fun, the Mustangs can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' California soccer rankings (they are ranked 295th, while the Phantoms are ranked 27th).
Meanwhile, Bishop Amat had already won nine in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.2 goals) and they went ahead and made it ten on Wednesday. They came out on top against the Warriors by a score of 3-1. The score was all tied up 1-1 at the break, but the Lancers were the better team in the second half.
They hit St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy with a three-pronged attack, as the team got scores from Noah Guillen, Jancarlo Hernandez, and Eduardo Jr Moreno.
Bishop Amat is on a roll lately: they've won 12 of their last 13 games, which provided a nice bump to their 18-2-1 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 41 goals over those 13 matches. As for Salesian, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 7-9-1.
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