Bayfield's Kamryn Fleener (17) tries to prevent Telluride's Sienna Aplin (22) from putting a clean shot on goal during non-league action Saturday at THS' Judy Long Memorial Field. (Joel Priest/Special to the Herald)
Bayfield's Kamryn Fleener (17) tries to prevent Telluride's Sienna Aplin (22) from putting a clean shot on goal during non-league action Saturday at THS' Judy Long Memorial Field. (Joel Priest/Special to the Herald)

SAN MIGUEL COUNTY – With a short drive to, and non-league match against Durango’s junior varsity barely 72 hours away, Bayfield girls soccer looked to get back up to speed Saturday morning in and against Telluride.

Seeing their first action after Spring Break, and doing so with a brand-new goalie in net, the Wolverines encountered a THS team psyched to be playing upon its own Judy Long Memorial Field for the first time this spring and Bayfield lost 7-1.

Junior Eadie O’Callaghan then got the Miners on the scoreboard in the 12th minute by netting a high-flying free kick, taken from roughly 25 yards out, over BHS keeper Macy Robinette. Making her varsity debut with senior regular Lily Muir out of town, the freshman Robinette quickly recovered and later made a fine kick-save on THS sophomore Tula Emerick’s near-post try in the 17th. Telluride, however, made her pay for a clearance intercepted in the 19th, as sophomore Sienna Aplin put the ball in the vacated net for a 2-0 lead.

Senior Kimberly Magana increased it to 3-0 in the 21st, and O’Callaghan followed up an Emerick shot – set up by Magana, but initially saved by Robinette – in the 32nd for a commanding 4-0 advantage. But Telluride wasn’t content, and freshman Griffin Bain, having woven through multiple BHS players after receiving the ball from junior Portia Yingling, marked in the 36th to inflate THS’ cushion to a comfy five goals.

Telluride’s day then got much easier after intermission, when Bayfield junior Mia Sager injured her left leg in a 43rd-minute collision with Yingling and was sidelined for the remainder of the match. Emerick then converted a 52nd-minute Magana pass into the Miners’ sixth goal, before Bayfield senior Avery Shipman ran onto a through ball played in by sophomore Grace Brown and beat oncoming goalie Abby Vidal in the 70th.

That wasn’t how the home side wanted the match to end, and senior Elodie Prohaska responded in the 73rd minute with THS’ seventh – and last – goal. Robinette did total 10 saves, but the Lady Wolverines (2-2 overall) couldn’t stop Telluride (3-4, 0-1 2A Intermountain-South) from snapping a three-match losing streak.

After the Durango JV match, Bayfield has the chance to pause for a few days and recharge before beginning league work on Tuesday at Montezuma-Cortez.