Olympic League standings

(as of Oct. 24)

Team Lg. Over.

Olympic 11-0-0 14-1-0

North Kitsap 8-3-0 9-4-1

Port Angeles 5-5-0 7-6-0

North Mason 5-5-0 5-6-2

Sequim 5-5-0 8-6-0

Kingston 2-8-0 2-11-0

Bremerton 0-10-0 0-13-1

Despite a tough week that saw Sequim drop three key league games, the Wolves’strong start has them in contention for a district playoff berth.

The Wolves suffered perhaps their toughest loss of the season Saturday, a 1-0 defeat at the hands of a North Mason squad that, along with Sequim and Port Angeles, now sits at 5-5 in league play — with only two playoff spots remaining for those three teams.

Sequim opened the week with a 1-0 loss at North Kitsap on Oct. 18 before falling 4-1 to rival Port Angeles, as Roughrider freshman Delany Wenzl scored twice.

Then, in Saturday’s game — a makeup match after an Oct. 13 game was postponed because of a winter storm warning — the visiting Bulldogs got a score on a penalty kick after a Sequim and North Mason player got tangled in the penalty area.

“It was a wet field and they slipped,” Sequim coach Derek Vander Velde said.

Sequim’s best chance to knot the game was a second half shot Adare McMinn put on goal that the Bulldog keeper pushed up and over the crossbar.

“We played a solid game,” Vander Velde said. “We were passing well (but) were a little slow to press the ball.”

“Today was a little rough,” he said. “It was a high-emotion week. They’re fighters; they don’t give up. I expect them to come in on fire the next two games.”

Sequim gets a chance to break their three-way standings tie this week with the bottom two teams in the league. The Wolves were slated to host Kingston on Oct. 25 — results were not available at press time — and play at winless Bremerton on Oct. 27.

“What we’ve done this year is incredible,” Vander Velde said. “I’m trying to get them back on track.”

The top four teams in the Olympic League advance to the West Central District playoffs.

The Olympic League’s No. 3 plays against the South Puget Sound League’s No. 4 team at 2 p.m. at Franklin Pierce Stadium in Tacoma on Oct. 29, while Olympic’s No. 4 team takes on the SPSL’s No. 6 team at 10 a.m. at the same location on the same day. Winning teams advance to a second game against either the SPSL No. 1 or No. 3 team on Nov. 1.

Sequim hasn’t played a district playoff game since 2012 and hasn’t won more than eight games in the program’s 32-year history.