Weekly Prep Spotlight 9/4

This weeks prep spotlight features the first crosstown soccer matches of the 2018 high school fall sports season with first starting Tuesday, and last happening on Saturday afternoon.

Tuesday afternoon brings Missoula the first crosstown between the Hellgate Knights and the Sentinel Spartans with the girls playing first, and the boys capping the day off. Between the girls it should be an interesting match as the two teams are paired closely on paper, yet when the Hellgate and Sentinel girls go mono y mono anything can happen.

For the boys it is a different story as the Hellgate Knights are playing for a repeat as the Class AA boys state title. Both the Knights and the Spartans have opened the season playing polished soccer and Tuesday’s showdown could be a look at a postseason match.

Thursday night is a match up that could be upsetting for the Sentinel Spartan boys, and a juggernaut for the Spartan girls as they head up South Avenue to play the Big Sky Eagles. The Eagles lost a group of seniors who had led the team with tenacity that is tough to replace, yet the Big Sky girls are in a position to turn some heads with a shot at their crosstown competitor. On the boys match the Spartans are the favorites going into the match, but the Eagles have a sneaky attack that shows signs of domination.

On Saturday the final crosstown match of the week will take place up the Rattlesnake as the Big Sky Eagles play the Hellgate Knights. Its gentlemen first in the morning on Saturday and if the Knights are bouncing back from losing to the Spartans on Tuesday it could spell trouble for the Eagles.

On the other hand if the Eagles are coming off a win over Sentinel on Thursday night it could be just the right momentum for Big Sky to upset the Knights. The girls match will prove to be entertaining as the Eagles and Knights play to the end every match against each other and the fall 2018 season matches should not prove to be anything different.

Of all the matches over the 2018 fall season Big Sky, Hellgate, and Sentinel will play, none will be any tougher then the ones the Missoula County Public Schools soccer teams will play against each other this week.

And that is this weeks Weekly Prep Spotlight.