Coach Kelly Feldman's Community School girls' soccer team had the amazing total of 15 shutouts in last fall's 17-3-0 season. Now, through four games, the new Cutthroat girls' edition has two more shutouts.
The Cutthroat girls (2-2-0, 2-0-0 league) traveled to Gooding Tuesday and blanked the Senators 10-0 in a High Desert Soccer Conference encounter. Seventh-year coach Feldman (63-32-6) enjoyed watching her younger players find the net.
"We're young," she said after the week's first league blanking, 3-0 over Filer Monday at Sagewillow Farms.
Freshmen Teagen Palmer (5 goals) and Hailey Rheinschild (2) led the attack at Gooding. Single goals came from sophomores Emma Wilander and India Emerick, and junior Kerry Lee Nelson (PK).
Cutthroat boys' coach Richard Whitelaw (17 years, 195-72-21) was also enjoying a youth movement Tuesday at Gooding.
The Sun Valley boys (2-1-1, 2-0-0) held off league rival Gooding 3-1 behind two goals by "Man of the Match" Tony Martin, a sophomore, and a single goal by junior co-captain Tanner Flanigan (5 goals season).
Next, the Cutthroats visit Wendell on Wednesday, Sept. 3 and host the Buhl Tribe Thursday, Sept. 4 on the Sagewillow Farms fields. Both Wendell and Buhl are league opponents. The rivalry between Wood River and The Community School resumes Saturday, Sept. 6, this year on the Elkhorn pitch.