WINTERSVILLE –Things are starting to click for the Indian Creek girls’ soccer team.

Freshman Cadence Walker recorded a hat trick leading Indian Creek to a 5-0 victory against Magnolia Monday night inside Kettlewell Stadium.

“We played better tonight,” first-year Indian Creek (1-1) head coach Danny Lawrence, who also is the head coach of the Redskins’ boys’ team, said. “It was a step in the right direction.”

Junior Aubrey Duggan delivered a brace for the Redskins.

The Red-and-Gold controlled the ball for the majority of the match.

“I thought they were confident,” Lawrence said asked why his team was able to control the ball for so much of the match. “You could see their confidence.

“I put in a system that allows us to control the middle of the field.

“In our last game, I was able to ID who should play where, and what we should do to make things work the best. We are figuring it out.

“Hannah Long played well tonight. She had an assist. Shae Corella and Destiny Ratkovec did a real good job.

“We were able to keep the ball up the field. We were able to win the 50-50 balls, and we were able to get the ball up the field. That is something we have worked on at practice, and when you see that transition from a practice to a game, it makes a coach happy.”

The Redskins outshot the Blue Eagles, 14-2. The hosts took 10 shots on goal, while both of the shots by the visitors were on goal.

“The girls played tremendous,” Magnolia (0-2) head coach Mikey Dantrassy said. “This was our best game by far. It was only our second game, but there was a tremendous amount of growth.”

The girls from Wetzel County took 11 goal kicks on the night, while the girls from Jefferson County took just one. The victors had a 5-0 advantage in corner kicks.

“We’re down this year,” Dantrassy said. “We graduated our entire offense. We have to replace our heavy hitters. We lost our two goal scorers.

“The girls have slot in. We are seeing some growth. We are an older team, but we are a newer team. We have eight seniors, but they are mostly two-year players. We have three or four four-year players. We are a young team with a high age.

“We came late, but we still competed.

“We faced a lot of adversity. We were tired from school, we had an hour-and-a-half bus trip, we got lost, and the girls came out and did a real good job.”

The girls in red tallied three goals in the first half before scoring two more in the second half.

Duggan scored both of her goals in the first half, while Walker scored both of the home team’s goal in the second half.

“I didn’t know what to expect from them,” Lawrence said. “This is my first year as head coach. I know about some of the traditional teams. They are so far away that I didn’t know anything about them. I trusted what the girls said.

“We were able to execute. We were able to do what we wanted to do. The girls did a good job.”

Duggan opened the scoring with 34:32 remaining to be played in the first half, and Walker produced her first of the night less than two minutes later to increase Indian Creek’s advantage to 2-0 with 32:14 left to play before halftime.

Duggan netted her second of the night to make the score, 3-0, with 7:49 still showing on the scoreboard clock.

Walker contributed a pair of goals less than 10 minutes into the second half to complete the scoring.

“I am proud of my team,” Dantrassy said. “We are pushing on. We are playing girls in some positions they have not played before, but they are playing big. We are looking to grow, and we are looking forward to the rest of the season.

Indian Creek is scheduled to play Brooke (2-0) at 6 p.m. Thursday night at home.

“We had a down day against St. Clairsville,” Lawrence said. “We had a good day tonight, so that will be like our rubber match. We will see where we are at.”

Magnolia is slated to play Madonna (1-2) at noon Saturday on the road at the J.C. Williams Soccer Complex.

“It’s another long trip,” Dantrassy said. “Our closest trip is 15 minutes. Our second closest is 30 minutes. If it is not a home game, it is going to be a trip for us. That’s the way it is in girls soccer in West Virginia.”