Soccer Game Preview: Spanaway Lake vs. Emerald Ridge

The Spanaway Lake Sentinels will face off against the Emerald Ridge Jaguars at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday.

Spanaway Lake is probably headed into the matchup with a chip on their shoulder considering Olympia just ended the team's three-game winning streak on Tuesday. They fell 2-0 to the Bears. While losing is never fun, Spanaway Lake can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Washington soccer rankings (they are ranked 130th, while Olympia are ranked 20th).

Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Emerald Ridge). They never let Yelm get on the board and left with a 6-0 win on Tuesday. Winning may never get old, but Emerald Ridge sure are getting used to it with their third in a row.

Emerald Ridge picked up their first home victory, bumping their record up to 6-2-1. As for Spanaway Lake, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-3.