(Chehalis, WA) It is always interesting to see how teams schedule their early season games. We always see schools get those nonleague games in early in the year to work out the kinks before heading into league play. On Friday night in Chehalis, we saw two teams schedule a potential playoff preview for their week one matchup. Coming off of a semifinal appearance in last year’s 2A state tournament, the WF West Bearcats were coming into 2023 with a lot of new faces from the team that made that great run last year. For the Ridgefield Spudders, they are coming off a season where they were never really blown out and stayed competitive while finishing third in the GSHL 2A and losing to Tumwater in the crossovers. The experience Ridgefield brought back made them a sneaky dark horse in the GSHL 2A and they showed that they could hang with anyone by not just hanging with WF West, but beating them to open up the season 27-21.