Lubbock is 0-9-1 against Lubbock-Cooper since January of 2020 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Friday. The Lubbock Westerners will be staying on the road to face off against the Lubbock-Cooper Pirates at 7:00 p.m. on March 1st. Lubbock will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Texas Rankings (they are ranked 669th, while Lubbock-Cooper is ranked 316th).
Lubbock fell victim to Monterey's stalwart defense last Tuesday and couldn't make it onto the board. Their rough 4-0 defeat to the Plainsmen might stick with them for a while.
Meanwhile, Lubbock-Cooper had just enough and edged Cooper out 2-1 on Friday. Lubbock-Cooper wouldn't have won without Keaden Strickland, who scored the game-winner.
Lubbock's loss dropped their record down to 1-9-2. As for Lubbock-Cooper, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 12-4-3.
Lubbock came up short against Lubbock-Cooper when the teams last played on February 6th, falling 3-1. Can Lubbock avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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