The boys state soccer tournament kicks off Thursday in Mandan with pool play. The Minot High Magicians come in as the defending state champions and are coming off the west region tournament where the team defeated Mandan in a state qualifying game on Saturday. The Magicians are excited about the pool their playing in and feel they are playing their best soccer of the season. Matt Pfau, MHS soccer coach:It's pretty well a wide open tournament but I feel like we're in a pretty good pool. I lean to Century and South as maybe the favorites and they ended up in the same pool so I think that will definitely help us. Offensively, we just have to play a pressure offense and try to win the possession battle and have the ball more than the other team. Defensively its just limit your mistakes and goal keeping has been fine, we just gotta limit our mistakes on the defense. Nathan Christensen, senior:I think we have a really good chance this weekend because Century's really not in there and...