[1/5/05]The numbers were staggering.

Forty-four shots on goal. Eight goals scored. Zero shots allowed.

And that was just in the first half.

Taylor George, Andrea Harrison and Krista McCollum each scored two goals, and 11 different St. Aloysius players had at least one goal in a 14-0 rout of Forest Hill Tuesday night.

The Lady Flashes outshot Forest Hill 71-0 and barely allowed the Lady Rebels (1-6) to cross midfield.

“I’ve never heard of it. Not this many with the girls team. Maybe 40,” St. Al coach Karen Carroll said of the Lady Flashes’ shot total.

It took the Lady Flashes (8-6) less than a minute to take the lead for good. Before the echo of the referee’s whistle to start the game had disappeared, Harrison scored to put St. Al ahead 1-0.

Harrison scored again 14 minutes later, while McCollum tallied two goals and George got one in the first 20 minutes of play as St. Al jumped to a 5-0 lead.

By the end of the half, St. Al led 8-0 and had already taken 44 shots. And as one-sided as the game was, it could have been worse the Lady Flashes hit the post or crossbar six times.

Both Forest Hill and St. Al took precautions to keep the game from getting any more out of hand in the second half.

Forest Hill pulled two defenders back even with keeper Tabatha Harris, in effect giving them three goalies. Two other defenders were stationed at the top of the goal box. Carroll also cleared the bench and ordered her team to pass at least five times before shooting.

The five-pass rule had little effect, however, since the Lady Flashes often had the ball in front of the goal by the second or third pass.

“All the seventh-graders were in that last half. They played almost the whole half, and that’s their opportunity. You can’t tell them not to (score). That’s what they go to practice every day for,” Carroll said. “I hated that it got out of hand like that.”

Laura Cialone, Ansley Fulcher, Rachel Thomas, Rebecca Sigh, Shana Stanton and Brittney Gray all had one goal for St. Al. Molly Beth Jordan had an assist, and Dayton Gamble had a goal and an assist.

(B) St. Al 2, Forest Hill 0

St. Al seemed a half-step slow all night against Forest Hill (0-7-1), but made one fluky goal and a late insurance score hold up.

St. Al outshot the Rebels 29-6, but struggled to put them away. The Flashes (5-6) had two shots hit the post in the first half, and were just high or wide with a half-dozen more. The only score of the half came about five minutes into the game, when Forest Hill keeper Tyrone Smith stopped a shot by Bern Ebersole, then dropped the ball and allowed it to roll in for a St. Al goal.

The Flashes continued to control the action in the second half, but didn’t put the game away until the 25-minute mark. That was when Adam Fulcher headed in a corner kick for a 2-0 lead.

(G) VHS 7, Natchez 0

Seven different Vicksburg High players scored goals in a shutout of Natchez on Tuesday night.

Diari Gilliam, Lucy Matthews, Keri McGowan and Holly Head each scored a goal in the first half as the Missy Gators (6-7-2) went into halftime with a 4-0 lead.

Miranda Hunt, Tayvi Ellis and Laura Johnston each scored second-half goals.

Matthews, Head, Jill Rush, Johnston and Crystal Davidson each had an assist.

VHS is set to play at Callaway on Friday at Newell Field in Jackson.