Moose bull over Wildcats amidst the wind

Katie Parkins finds the net four times on ‘senior night’

Gabby Imre guides the ball upfield during Alamosa's home win against Ignacio on Thursday. Imre tied with Alana Hackett in scoring with both girls collecting two goals.(Courier photos by Stephen Jiron)

ALAMOSA — Thursday evening an insistent south-westerly wind presided over Alamosa’s home soccer game. The Moose refused to allow the weather to become a factor finishing off Ignacio off in short order with a 10-0 ‘mercy-rule’ victory.  

Alamosa has been riding high prior to their meeting with the Wildcats. The Moose have strutted through their schedule collecting 5 wins in their last 5 games. The latest before Ignacio, a big road win over Bayfield in a 2-1 game.

Thursday afternoon after the senior girls were recognized, the Moose started the game with the wind at their backs. The few times a ball crossed midfield all Alamosa’s backfield needed do was get the ball aerial and let the wind carry it back on the attack. Which prompted forty minutes of Alamosa shooting the lights out. Preliminary stats of the first half had Alamosa with 31 shots, 20 of which were on target.

Katie Parkins rips a shot on goal from about 22 yards out. Parkins potted four goals off 13 shots and had an assist in Alamosa's 10-0 win Thursday afternoon.

Katie Parkins got the scoring started for the Moose when she slipped one by the goalie to break the tie in the ninth minute. Seven minutes later she would boot in Alamosa’s second goal. Parkins kept piling up the stats collecting an assist on Gabby Imre’s goal that made it 3-0 in Alamosa’s favor.

Before the half let out both girls would collect one more goal. Imre found the back of the net with a shot that earned an altered trajectory when it deflected off a Wildcat. Parkins got all of a 25-yarder that the net even failed to capture, completing the hat trick and making it 5-0.

Changing field after the half put the wind in Alamosa's face, which hardly slowed them at all. Logging work in-net in the first half, Alana Hackett was eager to register some offensive stats. Off the kickoff Hackett led a charge that spanned half the field and resulted in Alamosa’s sixth goal. In a spell of déjà vu Hackett would take a similar looking drive four minutes later to collect her second goal of the game on two recorded shots on goal.

With a running clock, Jazmine Palacios would get in on the scoring, cleaning up a rebound off a saved shot from Parkins. Palacios’ goal made it a 8-0 game which took a Moose off the field as per the mercy rule.

With 27 minutes remaining in the half Parkins knocked in her fourth of the day giving Ignacio a two-player advantage. The final coffin nail came from the foot of Katy Gallegos with an assist from Ashley Lopez to end the game with 7 minutes remaining.

Alamosa will get a short turnaround when they play their third home game of the season against Bayfield this weekend. Luckily for Alamosa neither team will enter Saturday’s 11 a.m. contest with a full tank of gas. Alamosa will be Bayfield’s second road game in as many days as the Wolverines will compete at Montezuma Cortez the evening before.