The Valley Christian boys soccer team continued strong through their regular season, beating ALA West Foothills, and narrowly losing to Northwest Christian.

On Tuesday, January 21^st, the boys successfully beat ALA 3-2 and claimed their 6^th victory for the season. Sophomore Elijah Mims scored the first goal of the game and junior Matthew (Dhillon) Malmin made a great play that ended in a beautiful goal as well. It was a great cross that Elijah tapped in with a perfect header.

Senior goalie Kyle Lason was exited to share, "The team played very well, both offensively and defensively." Senior Jose Amancio-Ramos scored the second goal of the game and senior Isaiah Macias scored the 3^rd. Elijah played a huge role again in this match and made another great play that assisted off a corner for Isaiah to score.

On Thursday, January 23^rd , Valley Christian suffered a minor setback with a score of 0-2 against Northwest Christian. Even though this was a disappointing loss, the Crusaders are currently ranked 2^nd in the state and are an exceedingly difficult opponent to go up against. They have a season record of 7-3, which is slightly better than the Trojans' 6-3 record. Even though this was a defeat, it brought up the team's hopes for getting closer to winning state. Elijah Mims reflected, "Even though we lost, I say we put up a good fight and had great defensive and offensive plays that kept the opponents at a standstill."  

After these last couple of matches, the boys have gotten closer to becoming a better team and are preparing to win the long-fought battle for state. Currently the team is ranked 7^th out of 31 teams in the 3A division. This is a very good direction for the Trojans.

Let's make sure to go out and support the Valley Christian Trojans.