SPSL NORTH GIRLS SOCCER: AT A GLANCE<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Favorites:<\/b> Kentwood, Auburn Riverside.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Contenders:<\/b> Tahoma, Kentlake, Kentridge.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Sleepers:<\/b> Federal Way, Jefferson.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Playoff picture:<\/b> The top three teams from the North earn automatic berths to the district playoffs. The fourth team from the North has to play the No. 4 team from the SPSL South for the final district spot.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Notable:<\/b> As deep and talented as the SPSL North was last season, it might be even more so this fall. Every team except for Auburn and Kent-Meridian returns at least one all-leaguer. Kentwood returns four while Kentridge, Kentlake and Auburn Riverside have three apiece. … Auburn Riverside forward Stephanie Horibe, a senior, tore her anterior cruciate ligament in the spring and will miss the entire season. Horibe was a first-team all-leaguer last year. \u2026 Numbers are up at Kent-Meridian \u2014 so much, in fact, that unlike last year, the Royals will be able to field an entire junior varsity team. \u2026 Jason Johnson is replacing Corinne Welch as coach at Tahoma. The Bears were the only North Division team to advance past the first round at state last fall. \u2026 Kentlake (9) and Kentridge (8) return more starters than any team in the North.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Outlook:<\/b> Talk about a battle. Kentwood has won three of the last four SPSL North titles, but can\u2019t be considered a runaway favorite to win it again this fall. Why? Auburn Riverside, another favorite, returns a loaded team, as does Tahoma. Meanwhile, Kentlake and Kentridge, thanks to talent and numbers, appear to be ready to make jumps into the elite class. Throw in tradition-rich Jefferson, a program that hasn\u2019t finished any lower than fourth since 2003, when it was part of the SPSL South, and there simply won\u2019t be any gimmes on anybody\u2019s schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SPSL NORTH GIRLS SOCCER: AT A GLANCE \u2022 Favorites: Kentwood, Auburn Riverside. \u2022 Contenders: Tahoma, Kentlake, Kentridge. \u2022 Sleepers: Federal Way, Jefferson. \u2022 Playoff picture: The top three teams from the North earn automatic berths to the district playoffs. The fourth team from the North has to play the No. 4 team from the SPSL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}