Having demolished visiting Eastside Catholic 8-1 on Thursday, the BHS girls’ soccer team faces the immediate question:Just how good are they?In a jaw-dropping exhibition of finesse and power, Bainbridge scored five times in less than 10 minutes in the second half, giving the squad needed momentum for its upcoming contest against defending state champion Lakeside. Senior co-captain Suzanne Fossum, who played a solid game as the team’s deep defender, was somewhat surprised at the ease with which her team won.The private schools (in Metro) are supposed to be pretty good, she said. After a somewhat downbeat first half, in which the Spartans took a slim 1-0 lead on Erin Wiggins’ 10-yard shot on a pass from Inger Fredricks in the 33rd minute, the Crusaders tied the score early in the second half on a long, floating 30-yard shot from the right side that settled into the upper left corner of the net. Big mistake.That was the catalyst, coach Mark Grindrod said, though it took about eight minutes for the ingredients to come together. Sophomore midfielder Adriana Gonzalez-Medina ignited the Spartan outburst when she stole the ball about midfield, dribbled down the right side and launched a pass that led freshman Lindsay Lund perfectly as she put in the ball from about 15 yards out. Less than two minutes later Gonzalez-Medina sent a pass down the right side. Junior Emily Haber ran under it, dribbled briefly, then launched a cross-field shot that caught the upper left corner of the net.Bainbridge tallied again when senior co-captain Fab Rezayat sent a dart down the right side to Gonzalez-Medina. She centered the ball to an onrushing Lund who got to the ball just before the goalkeeper.Four minutes later, Gonzalez-Medina – perhaps tired of assisting teammates – assisted herself as she faked past a defender down the left side and hammered home a goal from 15 yards out. And Rezayat matched that solo run two minutes later to make the score 6-1.The Spartans still weren’t through. Lund picked up her hat trick four minutes later, when the ball popped out of a scramble near the net that was set up by senior Crisma Biggs’ pass and pushed it in from eight yards out.Biggs concluded the scoring with less than five minutes remaining, as she broke out of a pack of defenders, dribbled down the right side and launched an airball that the goalkeeper barely got a hand on as it trickled into the net.We can be as good as we were tonight, said Grindrod. The problem with this game was that we saw they weren’t very good and we played down to their level in the first half. We played a lot of kickball. Then in the second half, we remembered to play with intensity.Gonzalez-Medina agreed. I was a little nervous in the first half, she said. Then Mark talked to us at the half and I decided that I was going to run around in the second half. My goal is to have a lot of assists.The win came two days after the Spartans opened the season with a 2-0 home win over North Kitsap.Bainbridge dominated the early going and scored its goals barely two minutes apart in the twelfth and fourteenth minutes. Rezayat fed Haber perfectly with a short pass just outside the penalty box for the season’s first goal, then Lund sent a pass from just inside the right baseline to Gonzalez-Medina who had an easy shot from about five yards out.Freshman Jenine Adams made the defensive play of the game midway through the second half when she blocked a shot that had beaten the goalkeeper to preserve the shutout.Grindrod likened it to Brandi Chastain’s crucial block during the U.S. team’s victory over the Chinese in the women’s World Cup.We had just worked on that play on Monday, he said. She was standing exactly where she was supposed to and played it perfectly.Just how good is this team?The issue will be addressed soon as the Spartans travel to Lakeside next Tuesday to take on the defending state champion Lions, who downed the Spartans 4-0 in the first round of the state playoffs last year, knocking them from the tournament. JVs take two: The Spartan JVs defeated Eastside Catholic 6-0 on Thursday after beating North Kitsap 4-0 in their opener on Tuesday. Jen Utley, Amy Strand, Taryn Christoffersen, Jessica Borgen, Sushi Speidel and Tucker Huget all scored against Eastside Catholic, while Kylie Izzi, Kara Mann, Borgen and Strand tallied against North Kitsap. Logan Mohr and Jaxen Solseng split goalkeeping duties in both games.C’s lose: Under new head coach Laura Sachs, the all-freshman Spartan C team dropped a 4-1 decision on Wednesday to an older and more experienced Port Angeles JV squad. The Spartans scored first midway through the first half on a breakaway goal by Devereaux Keyes. But Port Angeles retaliated with three late goals in the half, then scored the clincher early in the second half.