A couple of fortuitous bounces and a quick scoring flurry were enough to give the St. Aloysius Lady Flashes a quality win.

St. Al scored twice in the final six minutes of the first half to blow open a close game, then controlled the action in the second and beat Terry 5-2 on Tuesday night.

Stephanie Riveros had two goals and two assists, and Haylee Prescott had a goal and an assist as St. Al (5-3-1) bounced back from a loss to division rival Madison-St. Joe by beating Class 6A Terry (3-8).

“We came out and the majority of us didn’t even know they were 6A,” Riveros said. “We just come out here to play, and we’re going to play as hard as we can, and if it is a 6A, good. We’re glad about that. But that’s all you can do is come out here and play as hard as you can.”

St. Al got on the board first with an odd goal in the 13th minute. Riveros took a shot that kicked off the foot of keeper Chascidi Martin and popped 30 feet straight up. Prescott went in for the rebound, but the ball landed on the goal line and bounced into the net to give the Lady Flashes a 1-0 lead.

“I honestly thought it was going out. Then Haylee was following it, but it just happened to go in, so I was kind of surprised,” Riveros said. “Even if they are small, and happen to slip through, it’s a goal for us and we’re happy with it.”

Sara Townsend made it 2-0 about six minutes later when she curled a shot inside the left post, but Terry’s Hannah Sandifer answered in the 27th minute to once again make it a one-goal game.

Then, in the closing moments of the half, the Lady Flashes struck twice to seize control. Prescott scored on a breakaway in the 34th minute and Mary Ranager made it 4-1 with a goal in the 37th.

Ranager’s groundball shot appeared to be stopped by Martin, but somehow trickled through the eighth-grade keeper’s legs and made it into the net. The quick

one-two punch turned a tight game into a one-sided affair, and Terry never recovered.

Riveros scored another goal 12 minutes into the second half to make it 5-1. Terry only took two shots in the second half, one of which resulted in a goal by Lauren Walker with less than three minutes to play.

“I think it opened their eyes that you can have a two-goal lead and all of a sudden they’re right back in the game. So you have to keep pressuring them,” St. Al coach Suzie Channell said. “We started moving the ball real well toward the end of the half and got some real quality shots.”