PORT ANGELES — The resurgent Port Angeles boys soccer team has already made waves this season with three straight road victories over league opponents.

The Roughriders discovered Friday night that North Kitsap and Bainbridge still control the Olympic League.

“We’re a little bit banged up,” said coach Chris Saari. The Roughriders have a break of 11 days to rest and heal until their next game at home against rival Sequim. “We hung with them, the second half got away from us a little.”

Saari said the Riders, bouncing back after a rough season last year with a very young squad, are looking to finish in the league right beneath North Kitsap and Bainbridge. With road wins at Bremerton, Olympic and North Mason, the Riders are tied for third with Sequim at 3-2 in league.

“We want to turn the tables on the teams that beat us last year,” Saari said.

North Kitsap had the ball in Port Angeles’ end of the field virtually the entire game and peppered goalkeeper Gus Halberg with shot after shot as the Vikings won convincingly 4-0.

The score could have easily been far worse. Halberg put on a World Cup Tim Howard-like performance, making an incredible 19 saves, several of them spectacular. In the end, North Kitsap’s pressure was just too relentless to keep the Vikings off the board.

“[Halberg] made it tough for the Vikings to score,” said coach Chris Saari. “The Riders competed with the Vikings despite being short two starters and star forward Matthew Miller playing through an injury.”

Despite the flurry of shots, the Riders nearly went into the half down just 1-0, but the Vikings got a goal in the 38th minute to take a 2-0 lead into the break. The Vikings built on that momentumwith three quick shots on a goal in the first seven minutes, one of which required Halberg to make a leaping one-handed save.

Port Angeles’ best chance all match came in the 52nd minute as Oliver Martinez got loose for a wide open deep shot from the left side. His shot beat the North Kitsap’s goalkeeper but went a couple of feet wide of the right post.

“Oliver earned transition player of the match for his tough and physical play. He was providing a spark for Port Angeles and his work rate was outstanding,” Saari said.

Saari named Halberg and Grant Butterworth the defensive players of the match.

Halberg kept the game close until the 63rd minute when the Vikings finally broke through for their third goal. Three minutes later, they scored again for the final margin.

Sequim 4, Olympic 1

BREMERTON — The Sequim soccer team erupted for three goals in the second half to beat Olympic 4-1, moving into a tie with Port Angeles for third place in the Olympic League.

Colin Feik and Josh Alcaraz teamed up to do much the damage for the Wolves. Alcaraz scored Sequim’s first goal of the match on a pass from Feik. Olympic was able to score an equalizer later in the first half when there was a miscommunication on a Sequim clearance, allowing the Trojans an easy touch in.

“The second half talk was all about the boys figuring out what they needed to do to turn it around. {It’s a] proud coaching moment when you hear them communicating and setting a game plan for the second half and going out and executing it,” said coach Dave Breckenridge.

The Wolves got a go-ahead goal from Nico Musso with another assist from Feik on a through ball.

“We started to make better passes and runs to pull Olympic’s defense out of shape to open up the back line and exploit another goal by [Feik] with a banger from 25 feet out,” Breckenridge said.

The last goal was by Alcaraz with another assist from Feik, who finished with a goal and three assists. Alcaraz finished with two goals.

“The energy level in the second half was at an all time high. The team worked really well and proved to themselves that they can overcome,” Breckenridge said.

The Wolves (3-2, 3-2) are off until they play an important game for league standings against Port Angeles (3-2, 4-3) at Peninsula College on April 8.

In other Friday night games, Forks lost a nonleague game to Rochester 4-0.