The Siuslaw Vikings soccer team made some progress Wednesday in an 8-2 loss at home to No. 9-ranked Marshfield.

Next week the Vikings, in only their second year of varsity play, travel to Junction City on Monday and to Elmira on Wednesday, hoping to build on that progress.

Siuslaw beat both Junction City and Elmira last spring in the Vikings' first varsity season.

"Before the game I told the team I wanted us to score more than one goal," Siuslaw coach Londi Tomaro said. "And I did not want to end the game because of the 8-goal score differential.

"We accomplished both of those things, so we are progressing, albeit slowly."

Siuslaw slipped to 1-5 overall and 0-2 in Sky-Em League play. Marshfield is 2-2 and 2-0.

Marist, 2-3-1 and 2-0, kept pace with Marshfield with an 8-0 win at Elmira. Cottage Grove plays at Junction City today.

Freshman forward Chuck Nelson scored in the first half and senior midfielder Jason Garcia in the second for the Vikings.

Senior goalkeeper Kayden Lane had seven saves and allowed five goals before leaving the game with an injury. Sophomore Derrick Vanduch finished the game for the Vikings.

"As in the past few games, our defense has struggled a bit with keeping the attack away from the goal," Tomaro said.

"There are definitely some things we need to work on, and I think they will become clear to the players once we review the game footage."

Tomaro hopes to build confidence as well as consistency.

"Marshfield got up by a few goals, and we lost a bit of our focus," Tomaro said. "We got a little down."

Bad things happen when confidence wanes.

"When that happens, the tendency of the midfield players is to drop back to help the defense," Tomaro said. "But that leaves the opposing midfield players unmarked in the middle of the field.

"That creates more need for defense because the attacks are allowed to build toward the goal with little resistance."

Earlier Wednesday, the Siuslaw junior varsity beat Marshfield, 7-5.

Eli Tattershall scored three goals, Ethan Jagoe two and Nicholas May and Bryan Santos one each.

"The entire JV team played hard and used great teamwork to get this win," Tomaro said.

SIUSLAW VARSITY SCHEDULE
Record: 1-5 overall, 0-2 in Sky-Em League
Thursday, Aug. 26 — at Newport 8, Siuslaw 0
Wednesday, Sept. 1 — at Siuslaw 4, Creswell 1
Monday, Sept. 6 — at North Bend, canceled
Monday, Sept. 13 — Tillamook 5, at Siuslaw 0
Thursday, Sept. 16 — Pleasant Hill 9, Siuslaw 1
Monday, Sept. 20 — at Marist 9, Siuslaw 1
Wednesday, Sept. 22 — Marshfield 8, at Siuslaw 2
Monday, Sept. 27 — at Junction City, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 29 — at Elmira, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 4 — Cottage Grove, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 6 — Marist, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 11 — at Marshfield, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 13 — Junction City, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, Oct. 18 — Elmira, 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 20 — at Cottage Grove, 6:30 p.m.

VARSITY ROSTER
Seniors
  3 Kassandra Dietrich, defender
  7 Maisie Jones, forward
11 Kayden Lane, goalkeeper/midfielder
15 Imanol Pelayo, midfielder/forward
17 Jason Garcia, midfielder, co-captain
18 Jerrel Brumley, defender
20 Dante Galli, forward/goalkeeper
Juniors
  5 Alex Goss, defender
13 Noel Hernandez, midfielder, co-captain
16 Lucian Murphy, defender
Sophomores
  1 Eli Tattershall, midfielder
  2 Braxton Hulet, forward
  4 Brayden Linton, midfielder/defender
  6 Derrick Vanduch, forward/goalkeeper
  8 Dylan Jensen, forward
Freshmen
10 Ray Brito Xilot, midfielder

JV ROSTER
Sophomores
Ethan Jagoe, midfielder/forward, co-captain
Bryan Santos, defender/midfielder
Taylor Spencer, forward
Nickelus Wuebkes-Terrebrood, defender
Freshmen
Landon Curley, forward
Isaac Glowacki, forward/midfielder
Sylas Gorder goalkeeper/defender
Brandon Jagoe, goalkeeper/forward
Sawyer Larson, midfielder/defender
Nicholas May, forward
Aidan Murphy, defender/midfielder, co-captain
Chuck Nelson, forward
Berkley Tregoning, defender