It all comes down to this weekend for the Trinity Western Spartans.

The men鈥檚 soccer team plays a crucial home-and-home series with the UBC Thunderbirds to end the regular season.

While both teams have qualified for next week鈥檚 playoffs, the T-Birds (11-0-1) lead the Canada West Pacific Division with 34 points while Trinity Western (9-1-2) is five points back with 29. That means to finish in top spot, the Spartans need all six points.

The Spartans remained in the hunt for first place thanks to a pair of victories over the weekend, 1-0 over the Fraser Valley Cascades on Oct. 19 and then 2-1 over the Victoria Vikes on Oct. 20. Both games were played at TWU鈥檚 Rogers Field.

Jarvis Ambaka broke a scoreless tie in the 74rd minute against the Cascades, scoring off a scrambled corner kick.

Against the Vikes, Cameron Parkes and Ambaka scored 86 seconds apart early in the first half.

鈥淚 thought we played exceptionally well,鈥� said Spartans coach Pat Rohla.

鈥淲e tried a different formation and the guys responded well and gave us a 鈥楶lan B鈥� knowing that we鈥檙e going into the playoffs.

鈥淯nfortunately we didn鈥檛 get the goose egg, but overall I鈥檓 really pleased for the guys. A lot of work went into tonight; it was a good response from last night when we didn鈥檛 have our best performance. Hats off to our guys for taking the first 20 minutes by storm and really playing well.鈥�

Victoria鈥檚 Cam Stokes scored in injury time to break Evan Lowther鈥檚 shutout bid.

The Spartans host UBC on Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. before the teams play in Vancouver on Oct. 27.