The Snowflake Lobos will welcome the Blue Ridge Yellow Jackets at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Snowflake is strutting in with some offensive muscle as they've averaged 5.9 goals per game this season.
Snowflake is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arizona's top teams: Payson, who was ranked third in their home state at the time (Snowflake was ranked fourth). Neither Snowflake nor Payson could gain the upper hand on Wednesday so the two teams had to settle for a 3-3 draw. The Lobos' loss signaled the end of their six-game winning streak.
Jayci Ballard and
AJ Yarn scored all three of Snowflake's goals, bringing their combined season tally to 37 goals.
Meanwhile, Blue Ridge had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.5 goals) and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. Everything went their way against the Cougars as they made off with a 6-3 victory. The result was nothing new for the Yellow Jackets, who have now won nine matchups by three goals or more so far this season.
Snowflake's draw gives them a new season record of 13-5-2. As for Blue Ridge, they are on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matches, which provided a nice bump to their 12-7 record this season.
Everything went Snowflake's way against Blue Ridge when the teams last played two weeks ago, as Snowflake made off with a 7-2 win. Will Snowflake repeat their success, or does Blue Ridge have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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