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PRESCOTT – The Prescott soccer team hosted Riverside Christian School in playoff game with a spot in the State tournament at stake Friday November 5th. In the first half it wasn't clear who would come out on top. Both sides had good scoring chances and Prescott's goaltender, Ivan Martinez, made a couple of nice saves in goal to keep the score tied 0-0 after the first half. Jonathan Gonzalez nearly scored in the first half with a long shot that just missed the goal banging off of the top crossbar. As a team Prescott's passing looked a lot sharper than it had in previous games this season. Some of that could be attributed to midfielder, Jaime Escalante, who was in his first game back from an injury.

The second half was all Prescott. Jonathan Gonzalez scored the first goal and the eventual game winner with an assist going to Vicente Garcia. About four minutes later Adrian Rubio scored the second goal of the game. After that Prescott looked comfortably in control of the game stopping RCS from advancing very deep into their zone and minimizing scoring chances. With a little over five minutes left in the game Adrian Rubio scored his second goal of the game this time with a header into the back of the net to make it 3-0. It was Prescott's tenth win of the season.

Earlier in the week it looked like Prescott would be hosting a first round game in the State 1B/2B tournament but that changed Monday afternoon. According to the WIAA web site, Prescott will be the fourth seed in the State tournament playing the fifth seed Friday Harbor at Richland High School on November 13th at 10:00am.

Other teams in the tournament which starts November 12th are sixth seed Mount Vernon Christian vs. third seed Crosspoint, seventh seed Upper Columbia Academy vs. second seed Providence Classical Christian, eight seed Puget Sound Adventist vs. first seed Orcas Island.