GREAT FALLS, Mont. – The University of Providence men's soccer team will look to bring their recent momentum on the road, as they play a double-header in Washington over the weekend. 

The Argos (1-2, 1-0) will travel to Northwest for an afternoon game on Friday, before traveling over to Olympia to take on Evergreen State on Saturday. Both games will start at 1:30 p.m. MTN.

"We're going on the road and it's going to be tough," interim head coach Michael Rahn said. "Any conference game is going to be pretty close and that's what we're prepared for. Each game is going to be a dogfight between two evenly-matched teams."

The Argos are coming off an upset 1-0 win over Rocky Mountain College in the team's first conference game of the season last Saturday. Matthew Wilkinson scored a goal off a corner kick from Mika Lukas Lankhoff in the 51st minute to give the Argos the deciding goal.

"The win over Rocky helped our confidence tremendously," Rahn said. "New coach, new team, new season, lot of incoming players. We spent the preseason trying to work through our ideas, different philosophies, and understandings of what we're trying to do. It just takes some time to try and get everyone on the same page. It's a process and the Rocky game was a huge step forward in that respect."

Despite the win, Rahn believes the team still has a much higher ceiling than is currently being demonstrated. He has been intentional about communicating the team's need to get better this week in practice. Part of that preparation has been working on being able to adjust on the fly if need be. 

"You have to be flexible and be able to adjust to what the other team is offering you," Rahn said. "You have to be able to play both ways. You have to be able to control the game if you want a positive outcome."

The Argos will start out the road trip with a game against the Eagles (4-3, 0-2), who lost to both Oregon Tech and Southern Oregon last weekend, on Friday. They'll then travel to Olympia to take on the Geoducks (0-5, 0-2), who also lost their two opening round conference games.

"Both are solid programs," Rahn said. "Both were picked in the middle of the pack. They've played a lot more games than us. They've played a lot more quality competition than us. They're a little bit more battle tested. They're going to be hungry. If we don't come prepared to play like it's our last game, we probably won't get the result we're expecting."