Watertown High School soccer teams open final two-week stretch of regular season

Watertown High School's soccer teams kicked off the final two-week stretch of their regular-season schedules on a good note Sept. 9.

The Arrows posted 4-3 (girls) and 4-1 (boys) Eastern South Dakota Conference wins over Mitchell in games played at the Allen Mitchell Athletic Complex.

Watertown's girls (4-4 overall, 3-3 in the ESD) are currently 10th out of 20 teams and Watertown's boys (5-2-1, 3-2-1) 11th out of 21 teams in the state Class AA standings. The top 16 qualify for the playoffs, with the eight securing home playoff games in the first round.

"We're kind of where I thought we would be (at this point)," Watertown boys coach Jesse Hauck said. "This year everything seems so wide open that it's really just trying to find the right combinations and sub patterns that allow us to