Erica Singleton, Shelby Guice and McKenzie Taylor each scored three goals as the Natchez High Lady Bulldogs rolled to a 14-0 win over the Forest Hill Lady Rebels Friday night in Division 6-5A action.

The game was scheduled to start at 5:30 p.m., but Forest Hill showed up late and the game didn’t start until almost an hour later, Lady Bulldogs head coach Lena Yarbrough said.

The late start didn’t bother Natchez High one bit as Singleton and Guice each scored two goals while Jessica Evans and Nicole Ballard each scored a goal as the Lady Bulldogs took a 6-0 lead at halftime.

“My girls played real good. I’m not real surprised,” Yarbrough said. “I expected us to come out with a win, but I didn’t expect it to be 14-0.”

The only thing Yarbrough said she was disappointed with in the first half was that the players were a little too bunched up and she talked with her team about it at halftime.

“The second half they took advantage of the whole field,” Yarbrough said.

Natchez High (3-6, 2-0) ended up scoring eight goals in the second half.

“I moved some players around,” Yarbrough said. “I moved Guice as well as Singeton as well as Evans as well as Taylor. I also moved Rebecca Davis and Brittany Clark up to forward to let them play something different.”

Taylor scored all three of her goals in the second half. Guice’s third goal of the game came just 43 seconds into the second half. Jadtrl Heard added two goals of her own and Singleton as well as Triyonna Green each scored.

“She played in the field all night,” Yarbrough said of Green, the Lady Bulldogs’ starting goalkeeper, “and Kandice Chatman, our second-string goalie who usually plays defense, played at goalie tonight.”

Yarbrough added that it was good to let her players play at different positions on the field, especially to give the younger players some experience.

Natchez High boys 1, Forest Hill 0

NATCHEZ — Ross Smith scored the only goal of the game at the 20th minute of the second half when his kick went just past the Rebels goalkeeper and into the net as the Bulldogs survived to remain undefeated in Division 6-5A.

“Ross scored on a perfectly-passed ball from Jeremy Buckles, who passed it between two defenders,” Bulldogs head coach Dennis Hogue said. “Those two are a good combination. The keeper came out and Ross kicked it just right of his reach. He almost made the save.”

At halftime, however, Hogue wasn’t too pleased with the way the defending division champions played in the first half and he let them know it.

“I was really disappointed,” Hogue said. “The first half, they outplayed us. They hustled to the ball. We were on our heels. I knew they had some speed. They had twice as many shots as we did.”

Hogue also contributed that to the coaching of Natchez native and Rebels head coach Tom Rinaldi.

“Tom is a teacher and Forest Hill and he volunteered to coach the team. The coach they had didn’t have near the experience,” Hogue said. “He had those guys playing soccer. They’re not the same team they were in the past. They looked like a soccer team. It was good to see Tom.”

It was also good for Hogue to see his team playing with more effort in the second half, which helped contribute to the team’s win.