The Wolverine girls went toe to toe against their Mountain Valley Conference rival Hall-Dale in the opening game of the high school soccer season Tuesday. When the final horn sounded, the visiting Bulldogs emerged as the 4-1 victors.

Hall-Dale scored nine minutes into the game when Lilly Platt rebounded a shot taken from the right side by Olivia Bourque. Just three minutes later, Wiscasset’s Latisha Wright made a nice move in the Bulldog backfield but the goalie was there for the stop. After the Wolverines were whistled for pushing at midfield, Hall-Dale drove deep again. Madisyn Smith fired from outside the 18 but Wiscasset keeper Lily Souza pivoted to her right for the save.

At 20:14, KK Wills carried the ball to the left corner and crossed a pass to Naomi Lynch who scored, putting Hall-Dale up 2-0. Platt’s goal coming on a cross pass from Lynch at 13:43 made it a 3-0 ballgame.

Wiscasset’s goal came in the final two minutes before halftime. It started when Jasmine Rego threw the ball from the sideline to Bassett who passed it back to Gwen Webber but her shot was deflected by a Hall-Dale defender behind the net setting up a corner kick. Webber dropped the ball in front of the net and Kayla Cossette was there to boot the ball into the net.

The second half began the way the first ended with a pair of back-to-back Wolverine corner kicks, this time without success. Isabella Marino booted in Hall-Dale’s final goal with Bourque assisting at 20:42.

The Wolverines played much better in the second half. Sydnie Thayer, Ellie Pratt, Webber and Riley Trask were defensive standouts for Wiscasset.

The Wolverines will be at Lisbon at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6. Then they have a home game against Monmouth Academy at 6 p.m. Sept. 8.