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BHS boys soccer suffers a touch-luck shutout

Unfortunately, the quality of play on the pitch isn’t translating to the scoreboard. On Tuesday at Wolverine Country Stadium, the scoreboard read Pagosa Springs 4, Bayfield 0.

“We played our game,” Bayfield High School boys soccer head coach Dave Foster said. “We played smart.

“The score really didn’t reflect how well they played.”

Bayfield trailed 1-0 at halftime.

“We gave up a sloppy goal,” Foster said. “Really, all four goals were kind of sloppy.”

Bayfield, for its part, knows it can score goals. The Wolverines have markers in eight of their 10 games this season and three times have scored multiple goals in a game, including their 4-1 victory over Alamosa on Sept. 6 at BHS.

So, the most frustrating part?

“The most frustrating part (Tuesday) was not getting the goals,” Foster said.

Bayfield (1-9, 1-7 Intermountain League) was shut out for just the second time this season.

“Every game, we’re seeing improvement,” said Foster, who started seven freshmen Tuesday against the Pirates and has started as many as nine freshmen earlier in the season.

“We’re playing a lot of freshmen; we’re basically a (junior varsity) team playing varsity sides. We’re lacking size, experience, but we have heart, and we’re learning a lot.

“It’s just frustrating not getting the result,” the second-year head coach said.

One freshman not in the Wolverines’ lineup was goalkeeper Dillon Hufnagel, who was in goal for the team’s only win the last two years. Hufnagel tore his rotator cuff, worked his way back, was cleared to practice this week, then tore his anterior and medial collateral ligaments in Thursday’s practice.

“He was just making a routine save in practice,” said Foster, whose goalie was getting regular repetitions with BHS alumnus and Fort Lewis College national-champion goalie Ryan Wirth in practice.

Wirth called Hufnagel “the real deal.”

“It was a bad month for him,” Foster said of Hufnagel. “My heart breaks for him more than anything.”

Ben Young, one of the team’s few seniors, started in goal.

“He made saves. He made some good saves. He just didn’t make enough saves,” Foster said of Young.

“In the first half, we played so well. We got outplayed in the second half.”

BHS will host Crested Butte at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Wolverines’ final home game of the 2014 season.

heraldsports@durangoherald.com

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