Youth soccer kicks off fall season

SCORE STOPPED – Keeper Jace Russell of the Plains Titans U10 soccer team (right) nabs a ball kicked by Jase Kelly of Thompson Falls. Thompson Falls won the game 3-1.

BLOCKED - Azlynn Meador of the Thompson Falls Lightning (right) soccer team blocks a score and kicks the ball away from the goal while Rachael Henderson of the Hot Springs Little Heat tries to get the ball. The U8 teams were among 21 teams from Thompson Falls, Hot Springs, Plains, and Superior to battle it out at Amundson Sports Complex in Plains Saturday. More than 100 kids from teams U6 to U12 played for more than three hours to kick off the fall soccer season.