A nice reprieve from a losing week the week before made for a good Highline girls soccer team finish at the end of last week, capping off a three-game win streak by beating Tyee, 8-0, at Highline Stadium Thursday.

The other wins for the week were against Renton and a forfeit victory against Evergreen and now the Pirates are 3-3 this season, which also includes the losses to Kennedy and Mount Rainier to begin the season and a non-league loss to Garfield. Tyee remains winless.

"We are getting better every game," said Jeb Binns, Pirates coach, who took the girls to the brink of the 3A state playoffs last year, losing in the qualifier game. "We need to work on the little things and play good halves of soccer."

No problem playing good halves in this one, as within three minutes the Pirates punched in their first score on the board. It was Maddie Davila, a junior, scoring first and then, three minutes after the first strike, was the second as Kaily Burton, a senior captain, knocked the ball into the net.

Give assists credit on the two first netters to Estelle Hage, a junior. She led with a couple nice passes to space for scores. Then 14 minutes later, at the 20 minute mark, Kaity Mendoza, a sophomore, was in the right place at the right time -- which was right in front of the Tyee keeper as she corraled the ball off a corner kick from Pirates stopper Alannah Anderson. As the keeper decided to take it down to the ground, an alert Mendoza stuck a foot in there and disrupted things to get the ball away and kick it into the net to make it 3-0.

Then for the fourth goal, Maddie Guidos, a senior captain, scored off a Kayla Carlile assist. Guidos, from long range, hit the ball from the left side some 25 yards out for the looper score for how this one went into the half, 4-0.

Next was the fifth goal at the 54th minute and it came off the foot of Norma Lomeli, a junior, with Mendoza assisting. Then No. 6 surfaced at the 57th minute as Lela Stockley shot the ball from 25 yards out straight away and the ball bounced off the near post and into the keeper and ricocheted back into the net. No assist was credited on that one as that was what one could almost call an 'own goal.'

Sensing a pattern here? And no, nothing is being said about the own goal. What is being said and hinted at is how many names you hear repeated having scored goals. None. Because...

"We had eight different scorers," said Binns. "It's been like that, we've had 10 different people score in games this year."

So the second to last goal came then when Kayla Carlile got into the scoring act and Julia Stahnke assisted by dribbling the ball into the 18-yard box prettily and passing the rock off. Lastly, Stahnke put in a goal for herself by dribbling in and smashing the ball into the net.

The unselfish goal scoring was evident and that plays hand and hand with how the Pirates are looking this season, which is better and better, as Anderson echoed her coach's comments.

"We are getting a lot better and we are working better as a team," said Anderson, a sophomore.

Anderson was almost in on the scoring with her corner kick that the Tyee keeper corraled before it may have ended up in the far post netting.

"Close," said Anderson.

Binns jumped in with consolation for Anderson, as both laughed and smiled.

"You were the only one that played the whole game," said Binns.

"Oh, I was," said Anderson, "I didn't notice."

The defense was good as Anderson played strong in the middle of the field, concentrating on the defensive as much as, and, more than, since she didn't score, than offensive.

The Pirates look like a team that will be doing more offensive things in the future if this week is any indication of things to come. And this week should be a good indicator.

"We have Hazen and Lindbergh this week," said Binns. "They should be determine-playoff-games. The top four go to the playoffs (from the Seamount League)."

So the big games will be coming early for Highline, who probably are looking at a three or four seed with powerhouses Kennedy and Mount Rainier looking like a one, and two, with their close to no loss seasons thus far. But Binns says the Pirates will fair well against those two and others as well as they play fairly close to what they can play.

"If we play up to our potential, we will do good," he said.