WESTMINSTER >> For the past year, Marin Kotschau has been a regular call-up for the U.S. women’s national youth teams. And a year from now, she’ll be part of the winningest Division-I women’s soccer team in history at the University of North Carolina.

Yeah, the Broomfield junior needs high school soccer as much as Beverly Hills needs a winning lotto ticket. At North Stadium for the annual Legacy-Broomfield matchup Tuesday night, Kotschau said she continues to stay loyal to her school team because, mostly, she just really likes taking the field with her high school friends.

“They keep me going,” she said.

In alphabetical order, Kotschau set up Addi Patrick for a goal in the opening half, then Adriana Osborne and Allie Heasty after the break, as Broomfield beat Legacy 3-0 for the Eagles’ largest margin of victory over the Lightning since 2016.

“Especially in a game like this against our rivals, it’s a lot more exciting to play the ball to someone who’s wide open for the tap-in,” said the Tar Heels commit, who has 10 goals and six assists this spring. “Today, having three assists — and a couple slips where they’re wide open and finish — it’s super exciting.”

The win allowed the Eagles (9-3-1, 3-0-1 5A Granite Peaks League) to keep pace with Fairview (8-3-2, 3-0-1) atop the GPL standings. With one league game remaining apiece, Broomfield is home against Erie (9-4-1, 1-3) on Thursday, while the Knights are on the road at Horizon (11-1-1, 2-1-1).

Since the league co-leaders played to a 1-1 draw in their matchup April 16, several tiebreaker scenarios loom in crowning the league champ, who will earn the automatic postseason bid. If both of them lose Thursday, they would find themselves in a three-way tie with Horizon and would need to go to the league rulebook to decide things.

The Eagles aren’t worried about all of that, they say. Not with the postseason starting next week.

“We don’t worry too much about where we stand at the end of the (regular season),” Broomfield coach Zach Hindman said. “It’s more about getting good, getting hot and being good at the right time.”

In the current 5A playoff rankings, Broomfield moved up one spot to eighth after beating Legacy for the fifth time in their past six meetings. The sixth-ranked Lightning (10-2-1, 1-2-1) were unblemished on the season alongside league-mate Horizon until a week ago, but are now 0-2-1 in their past three games.

Currently, all six 5A GPL teams are inside 5A’s 32-team playoff projection. Five — No. 6 Legacy, No. 8 Broomfield, No. 12 Fairview, No. 13 Horizon and No. 17 Erie — are comfortably inside the top 20. Meanwhile, the No. 32 Coyotes (6-8, 0-4) occupy the final playoff spot and host the Lightning on Thursday.