LANGLEY — When the Falcons girls soccer team wants to forget a big loss, they score in a big way.

South Whidbey lost 0-4 to Granite Falls earlier this week. Falcons senior defender and co-captain Brianna Haimes said they were too confident then, and that was the main problem.

By the end of the game on Thursday, the problem was finding a starter who had yet to score. South Whidbey netted six goals by six different players to defeat Sultan and improve its overall record to 3-1.

“It was a lot of team chemistry,” said Falcons head coach Ben Rusch.

“They just didn’t let up ever,” he said. “When I say ‘Go hard,’ everybody goes hard and plays as a team.”

The contest was rough for junior forward Paige Farmer in a few ways.

She was sick. She got bumped, pushed and knocked down. And she had two shots on goal that hit posts.

Farmer dug deep, though, and helped tame the Tigers. Rusch used Farmer’s aggressiveness and speed to pressure Sultan’s taller defenders throughout the game.

“She’s small, but she likes to fight everybody,” Rusch said. “Everybody’s susceptible to intimidation and she doesn’t step down from anybody.”

“We frustrated them because I’m faster than them,” Farmer added. “I can outrun most people with the ball when I’m dribbling. It’s just something I’ve been good at for a while.”

The Falcons had the first opportunity on one of Farmer’s shots in the seventh minute. She outran her defender, had a one-on-one with Sultan’s goalkeeper, kicked from just outside the 5-yard line and watched the ball roll into the right post and bounce out of bounds.

“We had four or five opportunities and then we went down 0-1,” Rusch said. “It’s just an unlucky goal.”

Sultan took the lead in the ninth minute on a goal by Turks sophomore forward Siera Strauss. She outran Haimes and then took advantage of Falcons keeper Ellie Greene’s hesitation to score in the ninth minute.

“She’s really fast,” Haimes said of Strauss. “I wanted to take her out (from scoring), but I didn’t really get to do that.”

It took only a few more minutes for the Falcons to answer.

Olivia Bolding, a freshman midfielder, passed her defender on a long pass from midfield. As Turks junior keeper Korena Price stepped up to intercept, Bolding rolled the ball by her into the right corner at the 14th-minute mark.

From there, the match became a physical bout and a Falcons highlight reel.

Maia Sparkman, a junior midfielder, scored on a corner kick in the 19th minute. Turks senior defender Tessa Pettyjohn tried to kick the shot out but instead bounced it into the top of the net for a Falcons goal.

The Turks tried to attack and put pressure on the defenders, including Haimes and teammates Amanda Lutsock, a senior, and Lindsey Grimm, a junior.

During one offensive push from Sultan before halftime, Grimm cleared a shot on goal, only to send it to an eager Turk who tried another shot on goal. Lutsock was there to clear it again, then battled in the corner to stop Sultan’s only scorer, Strauss.

South Whidbey’s scoring show continued in the second half. Grimm booted a goal (at the 49th minute) from 15 yards out that bounced off the left post and into the net.

Farmer broke free down the middle of the field and faced a one-on-one with the goalie until Pettyjohn slammed into her, giving South Whidbey a penalty kick.

Rusch tabbed Haimes for the PK, who scored (59th) on a roller into the right side.

In the 61st minute, Falcons senior midfielder Makenzie Peterson lofted a pass over two defenders to Farmer. Sultan’s goalie came out to stop it at the 15-yard line, but not before Farmer booted it past and watched her first goal of the season roll into the back of the net.

“I wanted to score really bad and it felt good afterward,” Farmer said.

Late in the second half, Falcon freshman Samantha Baldwin was fouled 10 yards from Sultan’s goal, setting up a second penalty kick.

South Whidbey elected senior co-captain and midfielder Makenzie Peterson for the one-on-one, and it paid off as she scored a floater into the left corner over Sultan’s diving Price (at the 73rd-minute mark).

For Rusch, the scoring South Whidbey had Thursday was a sign they can compete in a league usually divided by Archbishop Murphy and everyone else.

“We’re a good group of players who can score a lot of goals,” Rusch said. “We don’t need to put any other team on a pedestal.”

Winning on Thursday put this year’s squad ahead of last year’s win total with only four games into the season.

“My expectations are just going up because we have a great team that just keeps getting better,” Rusch said.

Next week, South Whidbey travels to play Lakewood, one of a few teams that remain winless in conference play, on Tuesday, Sept. 20. The Falcons host Coupeville, another team without a league victory, on Thursday, Sept. 22.