St. Francis is on a four-game streak of home wins, while Homestead is on a three-game streak of away wins: one of those streaks is about to end. The St. Francis Troubadours will take on the Homestead Mustangs at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. After the pair made easy work of their previous opponents, one won't be so lucky.
It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but St. Francis had no problem doing just that on Tuesday. Their defense stepped up to hand the Gauchos a 4-0 shutout. Considering St. Francis has won 13 matchups by more than two goals this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.
They were led to victory by the tag-team duo of
Yasmin Azar and
Miley Blough, who scored all four of St. Francis' goals. The pair have combined for a total of 24 so far this season.
Meanwhile, after failing to score in their last game, Homestead made sure to put some goals up on the board against Chico on Tuesday. Everything went their way against the Panthers as they made off with a 4-0 win. Give Homestead's defense some credit: that's the team's fourth straight shutout.
St. Francis has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 21-4-3 record this season. As for Homestead, their win bumped their record up to 15-5-2.
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