The final numbers tell the story on the senior class of the 2018 Siloam Springs girls soccer team.
Siloam Springs' girls won the program's fifth straight Class 6A state championship last Friday with a 1-0 victory over Benton at Razorback Field on the campus of the University of Arkansas.
And with that final championship win, the Lady Panthers' seniors wrapped up a stellar four-year run that saw most of them contribute since their ninth-grade year.
For seniors Sydney Bomstad, Brooklyn Buckminster, Megan Hutto, Meghan Kennedy and Audrey Maxwell, it's the completion of a run of dominance dating back to the 2015 season when this group burst onto the scene as freshmen.
In four years, the senior class, which also includes Megan Rush and Elizabeth Frias, won 73 of the 94 games it played with just 18 losses and three draws for a winning percentage of .776.
The combination of Bomstad, Buckminster, Hutto, Kennedy and Maxwell scored 173 goals and contributed 124 assists, while Bomstad also had 122 saves in one year of playing in the goal.
The total goals scored also should include an asterisk as Maxwell missed all of her senior year with a torn ACL.
Maxwell scored 60 goals in her Siloam Springs career with a school record 42 coming in 2017 as she was named Girls Soccer Player of the Year by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Even though she was unable to play on role on the field this year for the Lady Panthers, she was still a valuable part of the team.
Maxwell, as she's been all season, sat on the sideline with her teammates during the 6A finals against Benton on Saturday.
"She was a little nervous on the sideline," said Siloam Springs coach Brent Crenshaw. "She sat with the coaches. Every now and then I'd look over at her. She doesn't show a lot of emotions, but you could tell she was a little nervous on that one. I was proud of our girls for rallying after losing her (for the season). Her and Megan and Buck and Kennedy, their relationship is so good that she's included in everything. This is as much her state championship as anybody else's because she's put in the work and made our other players better in practice."
Maxwell, who was state tournament MVP in 2016 and 2017, and Buckminster both signed to play college soccer at Rogers State in Claremore, Okla.
Buckminster began the season playing a holding center midfield but transitioned over the course of the year into playing all over the field. She finished the season with six goals and four assists for 24 goals and 17 assists for her career.
Kennedy, a John Brown signee, finished with three goals and two assists for a total of nine goals and five assists, playing mainly at center back.
Bomstad played in the midfield her first three seasons, scoring a combined 11 goals and 10 assists. As a senior, she moved to goalkeeper and had 122 saves and helped the Lady Panthers produce 14 shutouts, including the clean sheet in the state championship game.
Bomstad was tested early in the state title game, making several saves against an aggressive Benton offense.
"It was a different game for sure," Bomstad said of the championship. "(Benton) came out to play a lot harder than they did the first time (in a 5-2 loss to Siloam Springs on May 6). I was tested for sure. It made it a lot more challenging."
And then there's Hutto, who wrapped up her high school career last Friday with her second state tournament MVP award after scoring the game's only goal against Benton.
Hutto, who was state tournament MVP in 2015 as a freshman, finished the season with 29 goals and a school record 23 assists, breaking last year's mark. She finished her career with 69 goals and 62 assists.
"She just has a knack for finishing," Crenshaw said of Hutto. "She's just a goal scorer. She'll make something out of nothing. She'll turn and have two girls on her and then create herself an opportunity. She's so strong and so fast. It's just a joy watching her play."
Dorsey leads underclassmen
Siloam Springs loses a big group of seniors from the 2018 championship team, but the cupboard certainly won't be bare next season.
A slew of underclassmen, including four freshmen, played significant minutes in the 2018 season and state championship game in particular.
Junior midfielder/center back Hailey Dorsey played one of her best games defensively of the season, according to Crenshaw.
"I told her at halfitme that's one of the best halves I've ever seen her play," Crenshaw said. "She won every 50-50 ball right there in the midfield."
Said teammate Meghan Kennedy of Dorsey's play: "I love just playing with her and today she truly showed what a great player she is by winning the balls in the midifeld. That shut them down, and every single time she won it we went right back out there, and that helped us win the game."
Crenshaw said the Lady Panthers moved Dorsey from center back to holding center midfield midway through the season. The reason was two-fold. One, Dorsey was good at winning balls in the air and distributing through the field. But also the Lady Panthers wanted the flexibility to move Brooklyn Buckminster all over the field wherever she was needed.
"We've been showing a lot of things with Brooklyn," Dorsey said. "She'll go up and then drop back sometimes. It's just wherever we need her in the game."
Crenshaw said Dorsey handled the move well.
"She's done really well," Crenshaw said. "I'm happy for her. She works hard and takes pride in winning those head balls, and that's unheard of usually on the girls side."
Dorsey (3 goals in 2018), along with juniors Laura Morlaes (25 goals, 9 assists), Hadley Crenshaw (2 goals, 5 assists) and sophomore Shelby Johnson (8 goals, 12 assists), all will be key veterans returning in 2019.
Super freshmen
And then there's the freshmen -- Madison Race, Jaleigh Harp, Sydney Moorman and Macie Herrell -- who seemed to get better as the season progressed.
"I'm really proud of the freshmen," Dorsey said. "They've stepped up and filled a big spot in the team. I'm not very worried about them having to step up because I think they can do it."
Race had a goal and five assists, while Harp had two goals, Moorman one goal and Herrell one goal and one assist.
"They played a lot all year and they've grown and gotten better," Crenshaw said. "Hopefully now they've got the experience to step up and be more leaders on the field next year because we graduate so many kids. We've got a good core of kids coming back."
"The freshmen, that's the first class that I've seen that reminds me of us seniors," Hutto said. "I'm really excited for all of their futures and I can't wait to read up in the paper about them."
Sports on 05/23/2018