The Merced Bears will challenge the Golden Valley Cougars at 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday. Merced will be looking to extend their current four-game winning streak.
If Merced beats Golden Valley with three goals on Wednesday, it's going to be the squad's new lucky number: they've won their past two matchups with that exact score. Merced won by a goal and slipped past Los Banos 3-2. Santiago Santiago-Hernandez had to tread lightly for part of the match after he was hit with a yellow card, but that was the only trouble the Bears got from the refs.
Raymond Gonzalez and Geovani Valencia scored all three of Merced's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 19 goals.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Golden Valley). Everything went their way against Buhach Colony on Friday as Golden Valley made off with a 7-3 victory. The high-scoring effort was just what the Cougars needed considering they were shutout in their previous game.
Merced has also been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine contests, which provided a massive bump to their 9-6-2 record this season. Those victories came thanks to their offensive performance across that stretch, as they scored 30 goals over those nine matches. As for Golden Valley, their win bumped their record up to 6-3-2.
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