Rightful home: GR sweeps Sweetwater Cup

In their first matchup of the season against Rock Springs, the Green River High School girls soccer team was able to defeat their rivals by three goals. The second verse was same as the first.

The Lady Wolves kept the Sweetwater Cup in their possession with a 4-1 road victory May 1 in Rock Springs.

Green River came out of the gates early and got early goals from McKenzie Lucas who scored on a amazing floater and Taylor Stoeger who sent a kick with force to the back of the net.

GRHS head coach Tracy Wyant said the team has been working hard on communication and they did a really good job putting passes together.

While pleased with the early offense, Wyant said the team did miss out on a few opportunities.

She said the had a couple times they could have finished but the player had to many touches.

"They were playing some really good soccer, they just didn't finish," she said.

Rock Springs would cut the lead late in the first half to 2-1, but Green River quickly answered when with an underneath a minute left, Lucas found Lauren Hoyt who scored with a picture perfect header.

"We have been working a lot with headers," Wyant said.

She lauded Lucas for being able to not only take the ball down the field, but to look for Hoyt who was crashing the goal.

"Kenzie put a beautiful ball there and Lauren got the finish. That's what we've been working on, and to see it in a game was great," she said.

On defense, Wyant said the team did a great job keeping Rock Springs from around the goal.

After taking a 3-1 lead into the half, Stoeger scored again to seal the 4-1 victory.

The Lady Wolves (10-3, 6-0 4A West) will next play in the road Friday against Natrona and Saturday against Kelly Walsh.

In the first conference match-ups against the two Casper team, Green River was able to get victories in both games.

Wyant said it's really hard to beat teams twice.

"We cannot let our guard down," she said.