Lowry's Nevaeh Gerhard chases down a loose ball against Dayton.
#The Lowry High School girls soccer team is headed back to the postseason for the second consecutive year.
#The only question that remains is where the opening round game will be played.
#The Lady Bucks collected three wins in Northern 3A East action last weekend, beginning with a 9-0 victory at Battle Mountain on Tuesday, Oct. 15.
#Lowry moved its home match with Dayton on Thursday, Oct. 17, to Jerry Tobin Field, as the Lady Bucks played under the lights for senior night and won 9-1.
#Lowry completed the perfect week with a 3-0 win over Fernley on Saturday.
#The Lady Bucks improved to 14-6-1 overall and 14-2-1 in league play.
#Lowry’s regular season finale against league-leading Churchill County has been switched to Thursday at 1:45 p.m.
Lowry's Damiena Mentaberry (left) and Britain Backus celebrate a goal during Thursday's 9-1 win over Dayton in Winnemucca.
#Lowry needs to knock off undefeated Churchill County and Elko to lose one of its five remaining matches.
#The Lady Bucks could be looking at Truckee or North Valleys in the opening round of the Northern 3A Regional Championships.
#In the win over Battle Mountain, Lowry netted six goals in the first 40 minutes of play and end the match early in the second half with three more goals.
#Natalya Guizar and Britain Backus each posted hat tricks, with three goals apiece. Backus also added an assist. Ava Swensen contributed a goal and two assists and Cleo Fowler came out of her usual goalkeeper spot and scored a goal and assisted on another.
#Kepa Hilbish added a goal and Elyza Sirotek had two assists and Nevaeh Gerhard had one assist.
#After heavy rain departed in the morning, the coldest weather of the season greeted Lowry and Dayton on Thursday night. The weather didn’t bother Lowry, who scored four goals in a 15-minute stretch in the first half to lead 5-0 at halftime.
#Maura Braatz put the Lady Bucks on the board in the seventh minute of pass from Backus and one minute later, Guizar headed a goal in off an assist from Backus. In the 19th minute, Guizar put her second goal in the back of the net off another assist from Backus.
#Backus was done with the assists and did her damage with three consecutive goals, including the first of the second half to make the score 6-0.
#The advantage increased to 7-0 after a 25-yard shot by Maite Avalos in the 51st minute. Dayton quickly answered with a goal a minute later on a breakaway opportunity, but Backus and Hilbish added goals in the 56th and 60th minutes.
#In the win over Fernley
