La Raza de Monterrey suffered their second home defeat this season by falling slate from 14 to 13 against the Baltimore Blast, which tied its win-loss mark at two wins an equal number of defeats.

Again the offensive failures were key to the whole orange could not be imposed on the scoreboard in a match that was highly contested.

Monterrey pulled up on the scoreboard with a goal by John Krause, who by a powerful three-point shot went ahead and lit RACE emotions of fans gathered at Arena Monterrey.

However, Baltimore responded with three runs in a row, two by Lucio Gonzaga and a Robbie Aristodemo achieved over the lead of the first quarter 6-3.

The U.S. offensive continued to produce and scored two more goals in the second quarter by one of LA RAZA by Victor Quiroz.

The Halftime ended 10-5 in favor of Baltimore.

For the Third Quarter the orange box did come on the board with two runs of Byron Alvarez and Victor Quiroz, the difference was because of only one point and it seemed that the story seen in the first two periods.

But Baltimore still had much to say and responded with two more goals by Max Ferdinand and Giuliano Celenza, returned to score away in cartons 14-9.

Almost to the end of the Third Quarter Monterrey won another three-point scoring through Carlos Farias, going 14-11 on the board.

The fourth period was marked by constant arrivals from both sets, without causing damage thanks to the interventions of the archers José Bontti and Sagu.

The tension increased when the race got one more goal with less than three minutes of play by Mark Ughy, the orange box was placed at a distance point on the scoreboard and that was when the court igresaron the sixth attacker on the Victor Quiroz person.

Unfortunately the strategy did not work and the game clock expired marking the triumph of Blast.

LA RAZA now begins its preparation for the next game that will hold against the Rockford Rampage on December 20 in Illinois.

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