SEABURY ACADEMY GOALKEEPER ARIELLE SPIRIDIGLIOZZI slides in to defend against Kansas City Lutheran midfielder Katy Leakey. The Seahawks fell Monday, 6-0, at the Youth Sports Inc. complex.

The fields at the Youth Sports Inc. complex continue to be a site of ineffective offense for the Seabury Academy girls soccer squad.

The Seahawks suffered their third consecutive shutout at YSI with a 6-0 loss to Kansas City Lutheran on Monday.

“It’s just been a battle of sorts,” Seabury coach Gunar Harmon said, “starting last Friday with a 1-0 loss with Wichita Home and trying to get our legs back underneath us. Now we’ve got to play in the first day over 80 degrees – just trying to get our legs back underneath us.”

But it wasn’t just the prior loss the team was still recovering from, as both coach and players were talking about Seabury’s prom on Saturday.

“It’s high school sports,” Harmon said. “Any given Monday, or any given day, you never know what you’re going to get sometimes. But that’s the joy of coaching at this school. The by-products are more positive than the result of the game. You’re exercising, you’re being part of a team. Those are things you’re trying to teach.

“But I was happy with the effort, they were out there struggling with the heat, and some of them took it a little worse than the others. You’re sitting in the air conditioning all day, then you’re suddenly outside, and it’s 80 degrees.”

With the increased temperatures, Harmon was even more adamant than normal about getting his players to drink liquids, listing off an array of sports drinks following the game.

The combination of the heat and fatigue resulted in just a few attacks by the Seahawks.

However, once they did get it across midfield, they never got close enough to put any shots on goal.

“Playing direct is not my style of choice,” Harmon said. “It can really stretch the field and make it longer and make your midfielders have to work more to support the ball. What we were trying to do was just dump it in their end and take a chance on the opportunity that the ball would get through.”

Seabury’s Melissa Burch, who saw time at both ends of the field, had possibly the best chance to get the Seahawks on the board in the final minutes. But just as in the rest of the game, the defense collapsed on her, and she had no other attackers to dump it to.

“We have to focus mostly on defense, so whenever we get the ball there’s no one really up there,” Burch said. “That’s one of our weaknesses, but it’s also a thing that we can hopefully work on so by the end of the season we can have people up there and we can score goals.

“Right now, no one is as confident as they should be. But I think once we get confidence and get a little more skilled, we’ll be able to score a lot more goals.”

However, there were still plenty of glaring holes in the defensive third, whether it be not clearing the ball or the Knights simply dribbling through the Seabury defense. In the end, K.C. Lutheran’s Hannah Denk registered four goals on Seahawks goalkeeper Arielle Spiridigliozzi.

Seabury will return to the road Thursday when it faces Independence (Mo.) Center Place, a rematch of a 2-0 loss by the Seahawks in their home opener.

“Everyone now realizes what they have to do – and is tired of losing – so they’re going to try extra hard to get hydrated and make sure that we can win some games,” Burch said. “No one likes to go a season without winning, so I think everyone really wants to win. In the huddles, you can tell, everyone really wants to win and are really competitive, so hopefully we can channel that spirit and score some goals.”