Maybe last season’s state championship run raised the expectations of the St. Aloysius girls’ soccer team. Maybe it turned them into perfectionists.

That’s as good an explanation as any for their dissatisfaction with scoring 10 goals, taking 30 shots on goal, and winning two key district games on Monday.

Madelyn Polk and Brooklyn Breithaupt scored two goals apiece as St. Al beat Central Hinds 4-1 in the first game of a varsity doubleheader at Strickland Field. Taylor Gagneux scored Central Hinds’ only goal.

St. Al also won the second game, 6-0, as Mary Ranager scored four goals.

There were just as many missed scoring chances as converted ones, however, and it was the offensive inefficiency that stuck in the Lady Flashes’ craw.

“It’s great if they’re playing like you want them to play. Yet for some reason I’m still trying to find offense. They’re just not clicking,” St. Al coach Scott Mathis said. “It’s going to work out. It’s a young team. We’re going to be fine.”

In the first game, St. Al (2-2) took 17 shots, but only scored four goals. It’s a season-long trend that has cost them two losses already. Last week against Park Place, they took 19 shots and only scored once in a 5-1 loss.

“We work good as a team, but when we get to the goal I guess we get kind of scared so we just kick it,” Polk said. “It kind of goes on and off.”

The offense had another slow start in the second game Monday. Ranager scored off an indirect kick in the 15th minute and added a second goal in the 22nd to make it 2-0 at halftime. It came alive late, though, with four goals in the last 23 minutes to blow it open.

Polk scored in the 37th minute and then assisted Breithaupt for a goal in the 45th. Ranager tacked on two more scores, in the 48th and 52nd minutes, to put the icing on the cake.

“Once Mary settles down, you see what she can do. She’s deadly. Same thing for Madelyn. It’s just getting some more cohesiveness. But it’s happening,” Mathis said, adding of the late flourish, “They just started having fun. They stopped worrying about it so much.”