SACO — After scoring 10 goals in a season-opening win, the Wells girls lacrosse team couldn’t find that same offensive output during a three-game losing streak that followed. That all changed against Noble on Saturday, as the Warriors scored the first six goals of the game and rolled to a 16-10 win over the Knights in an inter-class girls lacrosse game at Hill Stadium in Saco.

Noble (0-5) won the opening draw and held the ball in the Wells (2-3) end for the first few minutes. The Warrior defense was finally able to create a turnover and get the ball out of the zone, which is when the Wells offense went to work.

Sydney Robinson opened the scoring 7:22 into the game, as Megan McDonald found her all alone in the middle of the Noble defense, and Robinson easily beat Knights goalie Sierra Parker with an uncontested shot.

Jasmine Loukola followed with three goals in a span of 2:24 as the Warriors offense began to click on all cylinders.

“She had a real strong game,” Wells head coach Jackie Proulx said of Loukola. “This is probably her best game so far, and I think she really wanted that. When she’s on, it feels good for everybody.”

Betsy Andrews and Alyssa Loukola scored 17 seconds apart at the 12-minute mark of the first half to put Wells up 6-0.

“That was good momentum for us in the beginning, but I knew they were going to come back hard in the second half,” said Proulx. “We wanted to come out hard, but we finished strong, which is all I needed us to do today, so I was happy with that.”

The Knights finally got on the scoreboard 52 seconds later when Brittanie Cole broke away from defenders on a free-position play.

The Warriors responded with a pair of goals, and after another Noble goal, Wells scored twice more ”“ including a fourth goal from Loukola ”“ to make it 10-2 at halftime.

The Knights stormed out of the gates in the second half, thanks in part to Kaylin Thompson. The sophomore midfielder scored just 38 seconds into the half on a free-position shot, and after an end-to-end goal by classmate Megan Bataran a minute later and a slew of saves by Parker in the opening minutes, Thompson scored again on a free-position shot 5:34 into the half.

Proulx then called a timeout to try and calm her team down, and to try and cool off the Knights.

“I just said they weren’t playing their game. Sometimes you can play down if people are making mistakes, and we started to do that,” Proulx said about what she told her team during the timeout. “I just asked them if they were going 100 percent, and if they weren’t, we needed to change that. Luckily, they were able to change it and go 100 percent for the second part of that second half.”

Nicole Moody scored just over a minute later for Wells, and the Warriors didn’t allow consecutive goals to the Knights until the final three minutes, with the outcome all but decided.

Loukola finished with a game-high five goals, while Amanda Deshaies, Alyssa Loukola, Hailey Smith and Andrews each scored two.

“For us, I think offensively, we kind of got in our groove, which for us is moving together,” said Proulx. “We’ve had a problem this year with all of us cutting at once, but we started toward that second half moving one at a time and seeing the open cutter.”

Proulx said she hopes the win serves as a jumpstart for her team, which saw itself at the bottom of the Western Class B Heal Point standings entering the game.

“We needed this, definitely. Especially going to York on Tuesday, we needed a win today, and hopefully that’ll carry on for a few more games for us,” said Proulx.

— Staff Writer Wil Kramlich can be contacted at 282-1535, ext. 323 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @WilTalkSports.