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THREE RIVERS – The 2025 season continues to be one of growth and rebuilding for the Edwardsburg girls’ soccer team. 

Sean Jesse’s Lady Eddies faced one of the more experienced teams in the Wolverine Conference Monday night at Three Rivers and fell to their hosts 4-0. 

The loss drops Edwardsburg to 1-7 overall and 0-2 in conference matches. It also marked the fifth time this spring that the Eddies have been shutout in a match by its opponent. All seven of Edwardsburg’s losses have come against schools with a winning record.

“Three Rivers is a good soccer team and they relied a great deal on  the counter attack tonight. They have two real speedy forwards and we just didn’t handle that speed and they played well over the top. We are a team that tries to play good quality soccer and knock the ball around and at times we were able to do that,” Jesse said. 

“We are a young group that just isn’t a polished team yet. We graduated seven starters from last season. We are going through some growing pains but these kids continue to get better every day. I thought we controled the play for a majority of the match. Right now we just lack that ability to finish when we have ppportunities to score.”

Sophomore miofielder Natalie McGahan scored twice for Three Rivers (4-3-2) in the first half at 37:32 and 31:18 and Paige McDonald, a senior midfielder, added the Lady Cats’ next goal (22:45) to put the hosts ahead 3-0 after the first half. 

Senior forward Tori Thorbjorsen scored the final goal for Three Rivers at the 32:23 mark of the second half. 

Rebekah Beachey, a senior, recorded the shutout in goal for Three Rivers with 12 saves. 

Despite being shutout, Edwardsburg did manage to outshoot Three Rivers 12-10.

Freshman Bailey Maurer came up with six saves in goal for Edwardsburg. Maurer was filling in for the Lady Eddies No. 1 goalie Mallory Schrock who is currently injured and the team’s No. 2 goalie was sick. 

“Bailey is actually our No. 3 goalie. I thought she stepped in today and did an excellent job for us. She just lacks experience,” Jesse said. 

Edwardsburg showed vast improvement during the second half after a slow start at the offensive end during the initial 40 minutes of play. 

Behind the play of senior center midfielder Alexandria Ferguson and sophomore Kennedy Goorhouse and junior Jada Gaideski at the outside midfielder positions, Edwardsburg had several opportunities to put the ball into Three Rivers’ net in the final half. 

Sophomore Sophia Kuntz missed a penalty kick for Edwardsburg with 17:04 remaining in the match.

Three Rivers also had one other chance to score on McDonald’s penalty kick with 8:16 left but her shot hit the crossbar.

Three Rivers had five corner kicks to just one for Edwardsburg. The Lady Eddies did have two indirect kicks to none for the Lady Cats.

Edwardsburg visits Otsego Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. for another league match.