The Spartans’ second showing against Franklin last week was better than the first.

About 100 percent better, actually.

The Bainbridge High varsity boys soccer team shuffled away after the March 28 match on the wrong side of a 0-2 shutout against the Quakers. Goals were scored by Sidney Hotchkis and Musa Ali.

It was a different story March 30, however, when the BHS squad reversed the score and came away with a 2-0 shutout win over visiting Franklin.

Both goals were scored by Sam Casad, with assists from Jacob Keasler and Ben Olliffe.

The match seemed destined for a stalemate at first, and Spartan fans were forced to sit through a tensely scoreless first half, and then some, before seeing any action on the board. The first goal was made with about 20 minutes left in the match, and the second came with just 6:20 remaining.

Wednesday’s match was “a better turn out than Monday,” said Spartan senior co-captain Devon Reynolds.

“We just hit the target a lot more,” he said of the game’s second-half turnaround. “We just got more fortunate with our placement in the second half because we still had the same opportunities, really, in the first half, we just weren’t finishing.”

If they had made some small adjustments earlier on, Reynolds said, they could have easily walked away with a final score of 4- or even 5-0 instead, but added that any win is a good win.

“I don’t think we changed our approach,” he said.

Sophomore forward Mario Vukic agreed.

“We were possessing the ball most of the game,” Vukic said. “We were just finally able to put one in the net.”

The loss and subsequent redemption left the Spartans with a 3-1-2 overall season record and in the number two spot in the Metro Sound rankings, behind O’Dea (3-0-2 overall).

Vukic said big things were now coming into focus for the promising island squad, and upcoming opponents should view the team’s answer to Franklin as a sign of even better things to come.

“From the start of the year we knew this team had the potential to do something special,” Vukic said.

“All it takes is more games, more playing for us to mend together. The chemistry is going to build up and, if we can pull it off, we’ll be unstoppable.”