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Another flip-flop in SPSL North girls soccer race
October 29th, 2009 at Thu, 29th, 2009 at 3:04 pm by Erick WalkerKentwood High’s girls soccer team knocked off Tahoma 1-0 last week to take a one-point lead in the race for the South Puget Sound League North Division title.
Kentwood’s lead, however, lasted exactly five days.
The Conquerors (11-0-4) beat Kentlake on Saturday, but battled to a 0-0 tie with Auburn Riverside Tuesday night. A win in the North is worth three points in the standings while a tie is only worth one. Kentwood’s tie on Tuesday in conjunction with a pair of Tahoma wins, allowed the Bears (12-1-2) to sneak past the Conquerors with only tonight’s slate of SPSL North games remaining. Tahoma entered Thursday night’s match against Federal Way with 38 points while Kentwood, which played Kent-Meridian, was sitting at 37.
Regardless of tonight’s results, both teams already have earned automatic district berths. The top three teams from the North advance to the district tournament while the No. 4 teams has to play the No. 4 seed from the South for the final district berth.
No matter what happens, this has been a tremendous race for both teams.
Erick Walker is the sports writer for the Kent Reporter newspaper. His specific prep sports coverage focuses on Kent-Meridian, Kentridge, Kentlake, Kentwood, Tahoma, Auburn and Auburn Riverside. Walker has been a sports reporter since 1994. Before coming to the Reporter Newspapers, he worked seven years for the King County Journal, where he covered prep football, wrestling and fastpitch along with the Tacoma Rainiers and Seattle Mariners. Walker has been covering sports in the Kent Valley since 2000. Outside of the newspaper industry, Walker is married (Janinne) and has two children (Asher, 10, and Nolan, 4).
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