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Girls soccer: Slippery conditions don’t help Huskies in loss to Newport

Sweet Home girls soccer fell to 1-5-1 on the season with a 5-0 Thursday, Sept. 30, home loss to Newport.

The Cubs tacked on two goals in the first half and three in the second en route to the comfortable victory.

“It was a rough one, but we played well,” Sweet Home head coach Ramiro Santana said. “It was better than the score looks.”

He noted that wet conditions made the ball slippery, evading senior goalie Kami Hart’s hands on “a couple of goals.”

Hart, normally a defender, was filling in for regular keeper Andra Gordon,who didn’t play because she was sick.

Newport’s first goal slipped through Hart’s hands. The Cubs scored again later in the first half after another Cubs attacker’s foot redirected a net-bound header at the last second.

Newport scored again early in the second half.

A fourth goal came from a header off a corner kick, and a long shot from outside the 18-yard box resulted in the final score.

The Cubs had 13 shots on goal to Sweet Home’s six.

“We played all right for what we can do,” Santana said. “We moved the ball better and passed a little better than we have been, but we didn’t take a whole lot of shots. They have better shooters than we do.”

He added that Newport was “beating us up and getting to the ball first. They would intersect the ball before our pass got to its intended target. At halftime we talked about how we have to go after the ball.”

Santana noted that he’d like to see more aggression on the shooting end. “We are so timid when it comes to shooting,” he said. “I push them and push them, saying, ‘You need to take shots.’ We just don’t have a lot of experience. When you lose 12 players to graduation, it takes a year or two to get back to competing in our conference.”

The Huskies are still searching for their first league win, with their best 4A-3 Oregon West Conference result being a 0-0 deadlock with Stayton on Sept. 23.

Sweet Home squares off against Cascade, 1-4 in league and 1-5 overall, on the road at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5.

Two days later, the Huskies host undefeated Woodburn, the state’s fourth-ranked 4A team, at 6:15 p.m.

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