Call it creating the space to excel.

The Thompson Falls-Plains boys soccer team opened up the field for each other and walked off the Amundson Complex turf in Plains Saturday with their first win of the season, a 10-0 conquest of the Browning Indians.

In other action last week, the Hawk boys played very well but fell 6-0 to powerful Polson in Polson Thursday. The Hawks return to action this week playing at Columbia Falls Tuesday and hosting Libby in Thompson Falls Thursday.

Coach Michael Scharfe was verry happy with how his players spread the field and created opportunities for their teammates against Browning Saturday.

“I thought our boys did a great job of opening up the field by finding space and making some good passes to each other,” he said. “This created a lot more opportunities to score.”

Seeing those openings and feeding the ball freely to each other, the Hawks scored early and often, keeping most of the action in Browning’s end of the field in registering the big win, ending it early via the 10-point mercy rule partway through the second half.

Senior Arrow Hyde and eighth grader Noah Scharfe led the Hawks to the win with two goals scored each, and Andrew Wrobleski, Liam Pallister, Talon Ferlan and Jacob Howell netted a goal apiece. The Hawks’ tenth goal was scored on an inadvertent pass that got past the Browning goaltender.

Wrobleski, Hutchings, Hyde and Pallister all had assists for TF-P.

The match with Polson Thursday was also encouraging to coach Scharfe. “Even though we lost, the boys did a great job a grouping together,” he said. “And after making some adjustments, we played much better in the second half.”