Lake Washington advances in post season | Prep girls soccer

The Lake Washington girls soccer team began the post season this week. After an overtime win over Mercer Island the team faces Bellevue tonight. The Kangs will host Bellevue on Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. at LWHS in the second round of the KingCo tournament. A win over the Wolverines would move the Kangs into a pig-tail game against a Metro opponent to be held on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 3:30 p.m. To earn the district's final spot into the state tournament, the Kangs would need to beat the Metro opponent.

By Megan Managan • November 2, 2011 1:30 pm

UPDATE: The Kangs will face Eastside Catholic on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 3:30 p.m. at Lake Washington High School. The winner will earn the No. 4 seed into the state tournament.

The Lake Washington girls soccer team began the post season this week. After an overtime win over Mercer Island the team faces Bellevue tonight.

The Kangs will host Bellevue on Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. at LWHS in the second round of the KingCo tournament. A win over the Wolverines would move the Kangs into a pig-tail game against a Metro opponent to be held on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 3:30 p.m. To earn the district’s final spot into the state tournament, the Kangs would need to beat the Metro opponent.

Lake Washington beat Sammamish on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 3-0. In the second to last game of the regular season, the Kangs earned the shutout.

Jessica Scovel earned the first goal, assisted by Kaiti Brixey in the 17th minute, before Scovel made her second of the night, this time assisted by Cassie Lively, in the 58th minute. Emma Holm made the final points of the night, assisted by Lively, with 77 minutes on the clock.

After losing to Juanita in the regular season finale, the Kangs played Mercer Island in the first round of the KingCo tournament on Monday, Oct. 31. Lake Washington won 1-0 in overtime. After 80 minutes of no scoring, despite the team’s best efforts, Emily Bunnell broke through in the 87th minute, well into overtime, off an assist by Jessie Zogg, to score the game winning goal.

Juanita lost to Interlake 3-2 on Oct. 25 in a KingCo game.

Sara Holden scored an unassisted goal for the Rebels in the 27th minute to give the team a 1-0 lead going into the second half.

Interlake’s Julia Banfi scored the Saint’s first goal in the 44th minute after a scoreless first half. Teammate Emma Ostlund followed up with another Saints goal in the 59th minute before Kalia Bass scored for Juanita’s second goal of the night in the 60th minute.

Despite tying the score, Juanita couldn’t hold on to the tie, with Interlake scoring on an Emma Bergstrom goal in the 77th minute.

The Rebels ended their regular season with a 1-0 win over Lake Washington on Thursday, Oct. 27. Karissa Radke scored the game’s only points, assisted by Haili Adams in the 65th minute of the game.

The Rebels finished the season with a 3-10-3 overall record.