“One wonders what grudge this season’s schedule-makers might have had against the Bainbridge High School girls’ soccer team.What else would account for a week in which the Spartans’ sedate two-game-a-week slate was disrupted with four contests in six days?And that’s not even counting the select and premier level games that most members of the Bainbridge squad play on Saturdays and Sundays.Fortunately, after the Spartans sagged in the middle of that schedule with back-to-back losses Tuesday and Thursday to top-tier 4A rivals Central Kitsap and Olympic, they’ll cap their marathon march with a 1 p.m. contest against 2A pushover Port Townsend.The losses, on the heels of a surprise 2-2 tie on Olympic League leader Port Angeles’ home pitch, left Bainbridge with a 5-6-2 overall mark and 17 points — 10 points shy of fourth-place North Kitsap.The disparity, coming with just two regular-season games remaining after today’s tilt, virtually ensures that the Spartans will have to play a sub-district qualifying contest against a Pierce County League opponent in order to gain entry to the West Central District playoff tournament, scheduled for Nov. 2 and 3.To be ready for play of that caliber, the Spartans hope to be rested and ready to play the best soccer they know how. And that, it would seem, can only be accomplished by limping through what’s left of this week intact.“As disappointing as those games were, a lot of it had to do with being on a marathon week,” Bainbridge coach Susan Fowler said. “After a while, it was not just physical fatigue that was getting us — it was mental fatigue.”The flat feeling first hit in the first half of the home contest against Central Kitsap, which currently resides atop the league standings with a 12-2 mark and 36 points.“We needed to establish something in the first 20 minutes, and the connections just weren’t there,” Fowler said. “We played well but lacked a real spark.”Matters improved after halftime, however, with the Spartans trailing 2-0 on the strength of two scores by Cougar star Nicole Zygmontowicz.“We talked about digging deeper — and then went out and put together a terrific second half,” Fowler said.The fresh spark translated to the scoreboard with scarcely a minute gone in the second half as freshman Adriana Gonzalez-Medina drilled the ball home. Twenty minutes later, junior Emily Haber found a seam in heavy traffic and slotted the ball through for a short-lived tie.In the end, however, Z power carried the Cougars home as Zygmontowicz completed a hat trick with a short shot on a deft assist from Keely Malhoit.It didn’t help that a flu bug currently sweeping the island had knocked out two Spartan starters, midfielder Courtney McFarlane and forward Christen Faltermeier, as well as reserve Inger Fredricks.All were on hand, however, for Thursday’s rain-drilled tilt on the artificial-turf surface of Silverdale Stadium against Olympic.Tiredness was one factor for the Spartans, who made few extended forays into Trojan territory and made relatively few shots — but the turf, as it has consistently over the years, exacted its own toll. The latest Bainbridge victim was forward Lindsay Carlson, who was forced to limp off the field with painful shin splints.It’s not known if she’ll be available for today’s game.“We never seem to play the same game on turf, and we always seem to have a lot of injuries,” Bainbridge co-captain Alice Bischoff, a senior defender, observed. “It was a mental thing coming in, and it might have become more physical as the week went on.”It’s all the more reason the Spartans are looking forward to a relaxing “practice session” against the 0-13 Redskins.“We’re going to look at it mostly a chance to work on our passing game,” Fowler said.Bainbridge next plays a Tuesday contest against Bremerton before wrapping up the regular-season slate with a Thursday home contest against North Kitsap..Bainbridge JV 2, Olympic 0: Faring better than their varsity counterparts, the Spartans capped a 3-0 week with a goal and an assist by freshman Kyle McFarlane. Morgan Zajonc added the other goal for Bainbridge, which has not lost a game in more than three years under coach Helen Hendrickson.Bainbridge also won 4-1 on Tuesday, with goals provided by Elizabeth Montoya, Martha Swain, Amanda Johncock and Zajonc. That victory came on the heels of a 6-1 triumph the night before at Port Angeles, in which Zajonc tallied four goals, complemented by two from Sushi Speidel.The squad has today off against Port Townsend, with many of its members scheduled to take PSAT exams. Originally, Bainbridge’s C team was scheduled to take their place against the Redskins’ JV, but that matchup was scrapped as well, Fowler and Hendrickson said. “