Jason Franchuk • For The Spectrum & Daily News • Published: October 23. 2010 4:55AM

WOODS CROSS - Soccer isn't supposed to be a bang-bang game. Don't tell that to Hurricane, however, which suffered a tough 5-1 defeat Friday in the 3A semifinals to end its season.
Goals came like shotgun pellets. JDCHS put up a quartet of net-finding shots in the first half, including two within two minutes midway through the period.
"I think after the third goal was probably when it hit us," Hurricane coach Lacy Kennington said.Â
That came not long after the second - 88 seconds to be precise - as defending state champion Juan Diego found scores when 20 minutes remained, and again at the 18:32 mark before halftime.
Juan Diego recorded its first goal nearly nine minutes in, while Hurricane's goal was the last tally of the afternoon.
"Everybody needed to be on the same page. We needed to play as a whole team," Kennington said of what it would take to overcome the long odds and advance to the championship game today at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy. "We needed the attitude of wanting it more. We had to be the first to almost every ball to give ourselves a chance."
JD coach Simon McFall was gracious with praise of Hurricane, a team he knew was young.
Kennington said all but four starters return.
"I think their confidence is built up a lot, getting to do this. They know they can do it," Kennington said.
It was the most goals a Tiger team had allowed since a 4-2 loss to Cedar on Oct. 5.
Juan Diego, meanwhile, won its 14th consecutive game since starting the season with a win, followed by four losses all against opponents from higher classifications. The kind of scoring barrage put on Hurricane could be expected, however - the Soaring Eagle had put up at least four goals in every one of their wins, posting 101 goals during the streak heading into what quickly turned into a blowout at Woods Cross High School.
The winning team scored the first five goals before Hurricane junior Shantai Bowen blasted one in to avoid the shutout with about seven minutes left.
The only thing that fit Hurricane, unfortunately for the game's first 73 minutes was the dour, dark clouds that hung overhead.Â
Hurricane continued to play hard, placing two threatening shots after the onslaught was underway.Â
Bowen put a nice attempt on the near post, which forced Juan Diego's goalkeeper to make a diving save to her left side. That came roughly 13 minutes before she found the net, getting an open field in which she dribbled to about 10 yards away before blasting a cross-goal shot with her right foot that sailed successfully past the outstretched right arm of the goalie.
Something, certainly, to remember for next year.