On an Oct. 12 episode of ESPN College GameDay, former University of Washington Huskies soccer star Hope Solo called Washington State “our little brother.”

Little brother is coming to town carrying a four game winning streak, something the Huskies have yet to do this season.

Coming off of two top 25 wins against then No. 21 Cal and No. 6 Stanford last weekend, the Washington State soccer team looks to carry that momentum to Seattle when the team takes on UW Friday at 1 p.m.

With the two big wins against the Bay Area teams, Washington State is now ranked in all three top 25 polls, proving just how big those two wins were to Cougar soccer.

“It was quite the weekend,” Head Coach Keidane McAlpine said. “To first of all step up against Cal and then to close it out on Senior Day (against Stanford) was spectacular.”

Despite beating reigning Pac-12 champion Stanford Sunday, McAlpine said he has moved his focus to knocking off Washington and continuing to build a strong tournament resume.

“I’ve taken in (the win), but I haven’t stopped there,” he said. “It’s time to prepare for Washington and keep moving forward.”

WSU soccer, which has been on fire the past two weeks, will head to Seattle to face a Washington team that needs a win just to keep its postseason hopes alive.

“It’s going to be a battle, it’s going to be hard fought, they want to win,” McAlpine said. “This is a game we really have to focus on, so it’s a game where we are really going to have to play.”

The Cougars sit in an unfamiliar position, with the opportunity to finish second in the Pac-12 conference, something that has McAlpine at a loss for words in just his second season as head coach.

“Had (people) told me this was going to be possible just two years in, I probably wouldn’t have believed it,” he said. “It’s just a testament to the players and their work rate.”

With the NCAA Tournament just around the corner, the Cougars have put themselves in a position to potentially host a tournament game for the first time in more than a decade.

“To host would do a lot of things for us,” McAlpine said. “It would do a lot for our fans. I think our fans are deserving of it and our team is deserving.”

Senior forward Micaela Castain, the leading goal scorer, is not only a big part of WSU’s success because of her ability to put the ball in the net, but also by finding open players, which has aided in the recent production of junior midfielder Nicole Setterlund.

“We challenged our team to find people that could help Micaela find more space and more openings,” McAlpine said.

The Friday match against UW will be televised on the Pac-12 Washington network.