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The Wesleyan Christian Academy boys soccer team is flying, not tunneling, to Albuquerque, N.M., tonight for the third time since 2004.

The Trojans (6-1), whose only loss this season is a one-goal defeat at the hands of nationally-ranked Page, will take on Sandia Prep School at 4 p.m. Thursday and St. Pius X High School at 9 a.m. Monday. The Wesleyan boys will return to High Point in time for class Tuesday morning.

“We’ve gone in 2004 and then again in 2007 and played in the Ramon Antonio Berry soccer tournament, which is in honor of a player that they lost in a car accident,” Wesleyan coach Scott Reitnour said, adding that WCA is participating in a different tournament this season. “It’s a great trip.”

Reitnour met former St. Pius coach Jorge Tristani at a soccer camp at Houghton College in New York, and the two developed a friendship. Tristani, the winningest high school soccer coach in New Mexico history and the 2008 national coach of the year, amassed a 376-72-21 record while leading the Sartans to 15 state championships in 24 years.

This will mark the fourth time since Reitnour and Tristani met that Wesleyan has played St. Pius.

St. Pius has also visited the Triad, coming here to play Wesleyan in 2006.

Perhaps St. Pius’ most famous alum? Mike Judge, the creator of animated television shows Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill and the movie Office Space.