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Idaho Press-Tribune

CALDWELL -- Riding the confidence of winning the Third District title over Bishop Kelly heading into the 4A girls' state soccer tournament, Skyview overcame a frustrating scoreless first half to dispatch Century 3-0. 

"I told the girls (Wednesday), you want to win the first day, you survive the first day you stay in the winner's bracket," Hawks coach Lawrence Nitu said. "Plus, two years ago they eliminated us."

Skyview got revenge by remaining patient, as the Hawks dominated the opening 40 minutes but went to the break still tied 0-0.

"It was kinda disappointing, but we talked at halftime and kinda stepped it up," Skyview's Makenna Pryor said, "and Lawrence said we could settle it, and once we did that we did good."

Skyview players said frequent passing was their plan of attack to beat the Diamondbacks, who looked for the quick-strike.

"I told the girls, they want our mistakes, they want to capitalize on our mistakes," Nitu said. "They're going to look for a long pass and a mistake in our defense."

Instead, a couple of defensive miscues by the Diamondbacks settled the outcome.

In the 55th minute, Kaeli Laxson sent a long free kick toward Century's goal, a ball that bounced over the defense to Pryor, who went 1-on-1 with keeper Brook Ferro and scored the game-winner.

"It was good. It's just so exciting when you have a chance to score and stuff, and you've got to take it," Pryor said.

The Hawks made it 2-0 seven minutes later when Courtney Boling blocked a clearing attempt and the ball bounced to Erica Parks who broke in alone on Ferro for the score.

"We made two defensive mistakes, and that took us out," Century coach Jamshid Roomiany said. 

"To us, 1-0 and 10-0 is the same," he added. "One-nothing we changed formation; we needed to come up with a goal."

Instead, the Hawks came up with one more late as Pryor set up Dominique Alston to ice the win.

By Mike Stetson

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