The La Jolla High School boys soccer team continued its recent slide with a 5-0 loss to Cathedral Catholic High School on Feb. 17. The Vikings (9-8-3 overall, 5-4-1 league) went on a tear from Dec. 11 through Feb. 2, going unbeaten in 11 games during that stretch. But they’ve dropped four regular season games since then, possibly heading into the playoffs with very little momentum. “[St. Augustine] is probably one of the best teams in the county, and for us to beat them we need to have everyone playing as a team. Unfortunately, we didn’t do that,” said LJHS head coach Tony Bruce after the Vikings’ 3-0 loss to St. Augustine on Feb. 15. That game was scoreless early in the first half when Saints’ forward Connor Keefe delivered a perfectly struck ball from 22 yards out to the top right corner of the net, giving his team a 1-0 lead. In the second half, it was Keefe who came calling again. He gave St. Augustine a 2-0 cushion with his second tally of the contest. Daniel Johnston all but ended any chance of a La Jolla comeback moments later when he scored what proved to be the game’s final goal, giving the Saints an insurmountable 3-0 lead. The Vikings stepped up the pressure toward the end of the match, developing several nice scoring chances, including a laser of a shot by Isaac Miselewicz that easily beat the Saints’ keeper but rang off the crossbar. LJHS hasn’t had much time to bounce back from its recent slump. It’s had to play a flurry of games to end the season and begin the CIF D-3 playoffs. “You can’t rest on your laurels. We’re not good enough to do that,” Bruce said. “We won (earlier in the season) by working hard, by being organized and by being focused. We’ve kind of lost our focus the second half of the season.”