BHS soccer coach George Vukic downplayed the significance of his team’s opening two wins after the Spartans defeated Central Kitsap 1-0 Saturday and then annihilated Kingston 6-0 Tuesday in a game in which they narrowly missed several additional scoring opportunities.

“I saw a lot of good things, and some things that concern me,” he said, adding that yesterday’s game at Lakeside, which finished fourth in last year’s state tournament, would be a much truer indication of his team’s ability.

“I know they (Lakeside) will be strong and grow stronger as the season progresses,” he said. “We’ll have our hands full.”

On Tuesday, it was Kingston which had its collective hands full.

After narrowly missing a score in the game’s opening moments, the Spartans drew first blood in the sixth minute.

German exchange student Lucas Wechselberger spun away from a defender on the right side about 25 yards out. He found himself with a clear path to the goal and sent the ball into the left corner of the net.

Goalie Austin Clement had a nice save about six minutes later, racing a Kingston player to the ball to deny the Buccaneers the equalizer.

Kingston had two more scoring opportunities in the next 10 minutes, but the ball sailed high over the goal in the first and Clement caught the ball on a free kick from about 30 yards out.

From that point on it was almost all Bainbridge.

Alex Raquer’s corner kick in the 27th minute sent up a header by Kenji Queva from point-blank range.

Four minutes later Raquer had a breakaway on the right side but centered the ball rather than taking a shot. Several touches later David Zimmerman hammered the ball into the goal from the left side.

The Spartans had three more scoring opportunities in the waning minutes of the first half and the start of the second half but couldn’t convert any of them. An apparent score at the 58-minute mark was waved off by an offside call.

Ten minutes later a header sailed just to the left of the goal.

The Spartans finally converted in the 72nd minute when Zimmerman drove in from the right side. When the Kingston goalie came out to challenge,

Zimmerman sidestepped him and put the ball into the left corner.

Just over a minute later, Raquer sent a perfect pass to Chandler Foster to make the score 5-0. And with about 15 seconds remaining in the game, Raquer’s corner kick set up Jimmy Baggett for what was virtually a tap-in.

Vukic noted that the final margin was the largest in his three years at the Spartan helm.

“I feel I have many many options,” he said. “I need to figure out where to put all the ability we have.”

For example, Vukic said that Zimmerman “has played defense all his life, now he’s a forward.”

Vukic expressed some concern with fatigue at a relatively early point in the game.

“We weren’t moving and covering as well as I’d hoped,” he said.

“There were some midfield holes. This is stuff we have to work through. But I thought that things grew as the game progressed.”

Against Central Kitsap, Queva’s goal was the difference in what Vukic termed “a typical first game. The first half was solid and then we got relatively scrappy.

“I’m not too concerned about wins in non-league games. They’re prep games and we don’t feel any pressure. But it’s always nice to win.”