The Napavine girls soccer team spent the majority of the first 10 minutes of its game against Forks on Tuesday jogging back to its half of the field after scoring as the Spartans pulled the ball out of the back of their net, in what turned into a 7-2 blowout of a Central 2B League matchup.
Hayden Kaut scored in the opening 60 seconds off an assist from Maya Kunkel. It took less than 60 seconds after that for Grace Pancake to double the lead off a Hannah Fay assist.
Up by two in the first two minutes, coach Mike Dieckman began the rotation early, moving senior Avery Schutz — who had yet to score this season — up from the back to play forward. It took Schutz just two minutes to change that, scoring off another Fay helper, and she’d add a second to her line before the first half was through.
Kaut capped her brace in the sixth minute to make it 4-0 after 360 seconds had elapsed, and an own goal off a Kunkel throw made it 5-0 in the 15th.
Schutz’s second, plus a later goal from Ellie Gilbert, put the Tigers (10-2-3, 8-0-1 C2BL) up 7-0 at the break, at which point the referee, citing the scoreline and nasty weather conditions, decided that the second half would only be 20 minutes long.
Forks got its two goals in that shortened second half.
Napavine will wrap up its regular season Thursday with a much, much stiffer challenge when it takes on undefeated Kalama with the Central 2B League championship on the line.
