Soccer Recap: West Salem's Luck Takes a Turn for the Worse on Friday

It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact West Salem can now relate to. They came up short against the Catholic Memorial Crusaders on Friday, falling 4-0. While losing is never fun, West Salem can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Wisconsin soccer rankings (they are ranked 27th, while Catholic Memorial are ranked fifth).

Panthers

Previous 5 Games

06/20/25 vs Catholic Memorial	0-4
06/14/25 vs Waupaca	2-1
06/12/25 vs Baldwin-Woodville	2-1
06/07/25 vs Osceola	9-1
06/05/25 vs Spooner	9-0

West Salem moved to 16-4-1 with that defeat, which also ended their five-game winning streak. As for Catholic Memorial, they are on a roll lately: they've won 12 of their last 13 matches. That's provided a nice bump to their 19-2-1 record this season.

West Salem does not have any more games scheduled as of now. As for Catholic Memorial, they have already played their next contest, a 4-2 win against Edgewood on the 21st.