The only thing the Seabury Academy girls soccer team could not control Tuesday afternoon was the weather at the Youth Sports Inc. fields.

The game against Englewood Christian, despite being played in bone-chilling winds, was all Seabury’s as the Seahawks earned an 8-0 victory. They even had two players post hat tricks — juniors Katie Pottorff and Regan Sisson.

Pottorff scored twice in two minutes early in the second quarter and then scored her third in the 66th minute. Sisson ran through the Englewood defense to score in the 26th minute and two more in the second half at the 41st and 73rd minutes.

Freshman Rita Stiges and sophomore Erica Hierl tacked on goals.

“The eight goals is nice, but it’s the ones we missed that I’m still worried about,” Seabury coach Gunar Harmon said.

The Seahawks fired 20 shots on goal, but that number doesn’t include any of the blasts that went just high, just left or just right of the target. If the net was larger, the game likely would have been halted early in the second half.

“I never want to go for a mercy rule because I’ve been on the short end of it, and I don’t like administering it, either,” Harmon said.

The Seahawks produced crisp passes to the wings and to the center of the field, highlighted by the quarterbacking ability of senior Laura Frizell, who finished with two assists.

“We’re really improving,” Sisson said. “We’re working hard. We have better passes, better combinations. In previous years we’d kick the ball ahead and hope someone gets it. Now we’re passing and doing combinations.”

Although the Seahawks (3-3) ran their offense fluidly — scoring four goals in each half — a small asterisk should be placed on the stat sheet. Englewood started the game with just nine players, later adding a 10th.

“It was unfortunate that our opponent had less than the full size, but there was more space to practice those elements,” Harmon said.

If any local team knows about playing soccer without substitutes, it’s Seabury. A couple of years ago, it was the Seahawks who had to play a couple of games with just 10 players after being bitten by the injury bug.

Now a Class 1A school, Seabury has to contend with a lack of 1A programs in northeast Kansas, filling their schedules with schools such as Englewood, a private school in Independence, Mo., and Center Place, which they beat 8-0 last week.

“Eight-0h does not tell the story of how much work we have to do,” said Harmon, who added his team still must learn to play on instinct as it gets ready for the postseason. “We’re still a work in progress.”

Seabury will play host Tuesday to Kansas City Lutheran at YSI.