The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk boys and girls soccer teams dropped a pair of River Valley Conference matches Friday in Wellman to Dyersville-Beckman. The boys were beaten by a 4-0 score. The Blazers scored twice in each half. Beckman limited the Golden Hawk offense to four total shots on goal, one each from Tucker Miller, Johnny Adam, Beau Flynn and Dylan Henry. Joe Hall made four saves in goal for Mid-Prairie. After the match, Golden Hawk head coach Wyatt Cady talked about what he thought decided the match.

Cady said, “Physicality is something that we’re good at. It’s one of our strong-suits. At the beginning of the game, Beckman was doing a great job possessing the ball. Then we started being a little physical and that completely took them out of their style. They’re a good team. They do a good job moving the ball and they’re crazy fast. That’s the best taste of what we expect a 1A State team to look like this year. We were actually down a man and kept working. Caedyn Huston is a freshman that we’ve been starting at center back. He was learning and growing tonight. He’s played really well. Adrian Sanchez has been in the middle for us. He just moves like crazy. He’s always working.”

The loss snaps Mid-Prairie’s three game winning streak and drops them to 4-3 overall ahead of a Monday trip to West Branch. Beckman improves to 3-1.

The girls contest went to Dyersville-Beckman 8-0. The score stood at 2-0 Blazers at the break before they piled on a half dozen strikes after intermission. Niva Helmuth and Adelyn Huston split time in goal for Mid-Prairie, combining on 25 saves. After the match, Golden Hawk head coach Truman Shetler talked about what he saw.

Shetler said, “It seemed like we let up a little bit at the end and we gave up three or four more goals. They were definitely the better team tonight. We have to play hard. Play to our standard. It was good to see that for the majority of the first half and the first 20 minutes of the second half we played pretty well. Our defense was stepping up and playing well and kept them out of the goal.”

The loss snaps the Hawk’s four match winning streak and drops them to 4-2 this season, the Blazers are now 3-0. The Golden Hawk girls travel to West Branch tonight.