HS Soccer: Dist 4 2A Soccer; Both #1's Rapids & T-Birds advance to Semi's with RA Long and WF West

5/8/2025

The District 4 2A Boys Soccer tournament began on Thursday night with 2 play-in Pigtail games. The winners WF West and Ridgefield advanced to the field of 8 in the District Tournament.

On Saturday, the opening round of the 8 team tournament began and 3 EVCO teams advanced to the semi-finals for the first time that anyone can remember leaving just the Columbia River Rapids as the lone GSHL team with a chance to win the District title.

No one was eliminated from Saturday’s games. The losers drop into the consolation bracket and will have to win 2 matches in a row to get to the State tournament.

Below are the scores, link to the bracket, links to coverage and our coverage.

Link to District Bracket

1st Round District Tournament Schedule
Saturday, May 10

Columbia River 3, Ridgefield 1
Game Notes: Columbia River beat Ridgefield for the 3rd time this season with a 3-1 win over the Spudders and will advance to the District Semifinal. Columbia River will RA Long on Tuesday with a trip to state and the district championship match on the line.

The Rapids suffered their only loss of the season in their season opener against RA Long 2-1. C Riv ended up splitting the season series with a 3-1 win on April 29th setting up this huge 3rd face-to-face showdown. Kick-off Tuesday at Columbia River is set for 6pm.

The Rapids advanced with scoring coming from Mason Renner, Johnny Avalos and Tyson Massengale. The spudders avoided the shut out with a goal by Adrian Merino.

Ridgefield falls into the consolation bracket and travels to Aberdeen on Tuesday for a 6pm , loser out match.

WF West 2, Hockinson 1
With the win WF West advances to the semifinals on Tuesday at Tumwater. Winner to the district championship and the State Tournament. Hockinson will host Hudson’s Bay in the consolation bracket in a loser out contest. Both matches begin at 6pm.
Game Story from The Chronicle on this link

RA Long 2, Aberdeen 1
RA Long picks up a road victory at Aberdeen and now will take on Columbia River in the semifinals on Tuesday. The Lumberjacks are the only team to have beaten the Rapids this season.

Aberdeen will host Ridgefield on Tuesday in the consolation bracket in a loser out match. Both games begin at 6pm.
Game Story in The Daily World

Tumwater 1, Hudson’s Bay 0

(Tumwater, WA) It didn’t take long the T-Birds to take the early lead when just 20-seconds into the match when Gavin Cuoio sent a pass to Lucas Oltion and he drilled it into the back of the Eagles net with a lightning strike goal. This would end up holding for the other 79:40 of the match.

Hudson’s Bay keeper Osvaldo Santos-Lopez was caught off guard right out of the gate but then settled in denying 7 shots and surviving 6 Tumwater corner kicks to hold the T-Birds right at that single goal scored.

The Eagles did score in the 2nd half on a nice break-away by David Jaras-Farias but he got the jump a second too early and was called for offsides taking the equalizer off the board.

The T-Bird defense did ther rest led by Senior Keeper Davyn McGilvrey with 8 saves including 5 in the 2nd half as the Eagles amped up the offense trying to tie the match up. The backline of Dylan Salapu, Grady Harroun and Avery Hartzell also helped intercepting and interupting an aggressive offense by Hudson’s Bay.

Our Thorbeckes MVP went to T-Birds Keeper Davyn McGilvrey with Oltien, Salapu and Cuoio in the discussion. Had the Eagles come back to win their keeper Santods-Lopez would have been at the top of the list along with Angel Villalobos and Liam Eptaimeros.

Tumwater will host WF West on Tuesday at 6pm in the semifinals. The winner will go to the District Championship match and qualify for the State Tournament. Hudson’s Bay falls into the consolation bracket and will travel to Hockinson on Tuesday for a loser out match that kicks off at 6pm.

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Tumwater Strikes Early

Davyn McGilvrey with a save in the 57th minute

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Thursday, 5/8 Pigtail Results

Ridgefield 2, Centralia 1 OT (4-2 Shoot-out)

(Ridgefield, WA) The Spudders get the win in a shoot-out to end the Tigers season. Centralia finished the season with an 8-9 mark. Ridgefield improves to 6-11 and advances to District Tournament play on Saturday. The Spudders will travel to Columbia River to take on the Rapids at 2pm.
Game Story in The Columbian
Game Story in the Chronicle

WF West 5, Washougal 0

(Chehalis, WA) With the season on the line the WF West Bearcats came up big with a burst of offense in the 1st half scoring 3 goals in about a 7-minute period of time. Colin Bradley began the attack scoring in the 15th minute on an assist from Nano Jaimes. The opening goal gave the Bearcats a surge of momentum and usual starter Moi Sanchez Hernandez was coming off the bench as they were using him sparingly while he is getting over an injury.

It didn’t appear Sanchez Hernandez struggled much as he made an immediate impact scoring in the 18th minute on an assist from Braden Newman to make it 2-0. Sanchez Hernandez wasn’t finished and struck again in the 21st and the Cats led 3-0 going into the half.

Washougal got some good work from starting keeper Michael Jehne but he was under attack for a good portion of the game. The Panthers had a couple of good opportunities to get on the board late in the 1st half but could not find the back of the net.

Grant Cowart, Gavin Cowart and Noah Migaki got off some solid shots but the Bearcat defensive back line constantly interrupted runs prior to getting into the final 1/3 of the field and when they did Bearcat keeper Noel Montenegro was a backstop and left the match in the final 10 minutes with a clean sheet.

The Bearcats let it be known there would not be a comeback in this match as Alex Mathuzima scored less than a minute into the 2nd half on an assist from Moi Sanchez Hernandez to quickly make it 4-0. Sanchez Hernandez would then end the scoring and tally the hat trick with the final goal in the 50th minute.

It was an easy choice to make our Thorbeckes MVP, a hat trick and an assist will pretty much get you the MVP of the match every time so Moi Sanchez Hernandez was our Thorbeckes MVP.

Washougal’s season is over and they finish 4-11 for the season.

WF West is now 8-8 on the season and advances to the District Tournament and are guaranteed at least 2 more matches. They begin on Saturday traveling to Hockinson for a 5pm kick-off.

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