If girls soccer operated like professional hockey, Silver Creek’s Sienna Weber would be drowning in ball caps just 11 games into the 2025 spring season.

On a balmy Saturday morning on her own home turf, the junior forward netted three smooth goals to help lift her Class 4A 28th-ranked Raptors past 3A’s No. 10 Longmont in a 4-2 showing, recording her second hat trick of the year in the process. Her first came a month earlier, in a 6-0 smacking over Greeley Central, and she now owns seven goals in all. A picture of humility immediately following the game, Weber attributed her triple standard to the chemistry that head coach Rob Johnson has helped build within the Raptors program.

“I think that we all respect each other. We all love each other, and I think that we all know our strengths and our weaknesses and we play to that. I think that’s why we succeeded today,” she said, adding, “My speed is definitely my top asset, but I think, also, my strike is pretty hard sometimes.”

Her first score of the morning came through a straight shot on goal in the sixth minute, only to see Longmont’s Ella Erwin respond in kind just four minutes later. The two squads maintained the suspense for the next 35 minutes after that, when Erwin tapped in her second goal during the chaos of a corner kick to give the Trojans a 2-1 advantage.

Over the course of the next three minutes, the Raptors hit paydirt twice more, first off of an Erin Stockwell floater just out of the reach of 5-foot-3 Longmont keeper Bella Oldroyd — or as Oldroyd tells it, “5-2 ¾” — and then off of a keeper draw and lob from Weber.

Boy, that escalated quickly.

The Trojans continued to battle, but Weber put an end to any chance of a comeback in the 70th minute with another play that drew Oldroyd out of the goal and gave Weber her opening. She wasn’t the only player on the pitch to impress.

In the 46th minute, the game tied at 1-1 at the time, Oldroyd fumbled the ball off of her palms. An unfortunate bounce nearly cost the Trojans a score, but the expert newcomer adjusted in the blink of an eye, falling in reverse to stop the ball before it crossed the goal line. She, along with fellow freshmen Annika Railsback and Mya Addington, have helped elevate a team still on the rise to a 7-3 record.

It was Oldroyd’s short stature that betrayed her against the Raptors.

“That was a mistake on my part,” a humble Oldroyd admitted. “I should have caught it in the first place. That was just nerves, but I felt it slip through my fingers. I had to turn around and I just used the tips of my feet and lunged in and pulled the ball into my chest, so then I wouldn’t sit and wouldn’t get the goal. It was real close. It was like three inches (from the line).

“I have to just really get low to be able to jump real high to get up to the net,” she explained further. “I have to be watching where everyone is going. I have to see the angle they’re at to make sure that I know where to position myself, so I have the most extendibility and the most accuracy in where I’m extending.”

While the Trojans took one of their few hits thus far this spring, Silver Creek’s ride has been much different.

The Raptors improved to 6-5 and hope Saturday’s effort will help turn the tides into more winning waves. They came into the matchup with consecutive losses to 5A’s No. 19 Horizon (4-2 score) and 4A’s No. 31 Niwot (2-1).

“No matter if we win or lose, I think we still keep our confidence, but I think definitely this win will help pep us up, hopefully,” Weber concluded.